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Fitch Says U.K. Rating Most at Risk Among Top-Rated Nations – Bloomberg.com he U.K.’s sovereign credit rating is most at risk among top-rated nations, Fitch Ratings said, citing concern over the country’s budget deficit. (tags: United_Kingdom govt_spending debt) Life on Severance: Comfort, Then Crisis – WSJ.com Mr. Joegriner is a member of what might be … Read more

Obama team ignores Volcker at its peril – MSN Money We ought to learn our lessons from the mistakes of the Greenspan period. It's a shame that after the near-vaporization of the financial system last year, with all the attendant consequences, so little intelligent thought has been given to how we got into the mess … Read more

BoE needs to increase QE by 50 bln stg-Blanchflower | Reuters Bank of England policymakers must agree to top up the 175 billion asset purchase programme when it meets on Thursday to stop the economy "dropping off a cliff," former Monetary Policy Committee member David Blanchflower said. (tags: BankofEngland quantiative_easing) The significance of the IMF-RBI … Read more

Why Do Green Energy Experts Buy Solar Stocks?  | Alternative Energy Stocks Green energy experts accept that solar panels are one of the least cost effective ways to reduce your carbon footprint. Nevertheless, many buy solar stocks. They should rethink their investment strategies. (tags: solar alt_energy)

Mother of all carry trades faces an inevitable bust The Fed and other policymakers seem unaware of the monster bubble they are creating. The longer they remain blind, the harder the markets will fall. (tags: Nouriel_Roubini bubbles interest_rates Federal_Reserve monetary_policy) Schools Are Where Stimulus Saved Jobs, New Data Show – NYTimes.com The best symbol of … Read more

Twitter Data: An Investor’s Perspective « The Metric System Using some statistical trickery, the Twitter API, and my RJMetrics dashboard, I uncovered a ton of astonishing new information about Twitter. Here are some highlights: (tags: Twitter data_analysis) Five Steps to Consistent Profits The goal of my Super Trader program is to help people develop a … Read more

Cash for Clunkers costs taxpayers $24,000 per car A total of 690,000 new vehicles were sold under the Cash for Clunkers program last summer, but only 125,000 of those were vehicles that would not have been sold anyway (tags: automotive govt_spending) Robert Reich: Why the Dow is Hitting 10,000 While Everyone Else is Cutting Back … Read more

Creative Accounting Resurfaces in Tight Times Corporate balance sheets may be showing signs of the wear and tear from the prolonged U.S. recession as accounting irregularities are starting to surface at growing numbers at U.S. companies. (tags: earnings fraud) Q&A: Economist Woodford on Fed and Rate Expectations Interview with Michael Woodford, the John Bates Clark … Read more

''Cash on sidelines'' less than investors anticipate: Goldman Investors could be disappointed if they anticipate tons of money waiting to get back into the stock market, since ''cash on the sidelines'' is much less than estimated, Goldman Sachs analysts said. (tags: money_market stock_market) FT.com – Stimuli can be safely removed Policy makers will therefore soon … Read more