3 hours ago by Suiwah Leung

Author: Suiwah Leung So far, Vietnam has weathered the global financial crisis surprisingly well. The following chart from the latest IMF World Economic Outlook indicates that Vietnam is likely to outperform most of its Southeast Asian neighbours in terms of growth rates for 2009. A number of factor ...

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8 hours ago by Mark Thoma

Tim Duy: The Fed in a Corner, by Tim Duy: Over the years, I have warned a seemingly countless number of undergraduates that Fed's hold on monetary independence was tenuous at best. Independence is not guaranteed by the Constitution. Congress made the Fed, and Congress can unmake the Fed. The Fed cou ...

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14 hours ago by Ivo Sokolov

Today an interesting BIS working paper (292) was released. Anyone remotely interested in economics is probably by now aware that central banks all over the world have gone to great lengths to loosen monetary policy, not only by lowering interest rate levels. Otherwise technical terms such as ‘quanti ...

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16 hours ago by admin

Both Bush and Obama have fully embrace Fabian Socialist monetary policy. This is further compounded by "Helicopter Berneke" and the printing of fiat dollars to pay for the "stimulus" packages which are being dumped on the economy. How many of you really understand what impact this "Change we can hop ...

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17 hours ago by Stephen Gordon

When we last left this story, inflation was drifting further and further below the Bank of Canada's inflation target, and the CAD was up to 0.97 USD. The case for intervening in the forex market to slow the appreciation of the CAD - and hence slow the drift to deflation - was starting to look pr ...

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20 hours ago by Sandeep Kanoi

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) advisory to banks for limiting their mutual fund (MF) exposure has prodded the lenders to put in place a detailed investment norm. While large banks were capping their MF exposure at 20 per cent of total investment,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...

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20 hours ago by admin

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21 hours ago by Bob McTeer

Ron Paul’s proposal to audit the Fed sounds innocuous enough, but it is anything but. I know from personal experience as president of the Dallas Fed that GAO auditors are only too eager to support the political agendas of their Congressional sponsors. Past efforts to have ongoing GAO audits have exc ...

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23 hours ago by admin

By Don Miller Contributing Writer Money Morning The “flight to quality” continued yesterday (Wednesday) as investors pushed up the price of Treasuries on fears the U.S. Federal Reserve’s drastic rate cut means the economy’s woes are far from over. But while Treasury prices hit record highs, concerns ...

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1 day ago by Mark Thoma

I agree with this: Threatening the Fed's independence, by By Alan S. Blinder, Commentary, Washington Post: The Federal Reserve's performance in this ... crisis deserves separate grades. For the early crisis period, from the summer of 2007 until a few weeks after the Lehman Brothers failure in mid-Se ...

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