Mark Herrmann's Blog
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“Some will suggest that I am leaving under pressure or...
Oct 1st
The [Japanese] central bank‟s implementation of quantitative...
— Richard Koo, „The Holy Grail...
Oct 1st
What, You Think The Savings Rate Can’t Go Higher?
Oct 1st
“Sure, it may be great for us, but its Hell on the markets...
Oct 1st
“They’ve been caught with their nuclear pants down.” ...
Oct 1st
Michael Yon: The Greatest Afghan War
The Greatest Afghanistan War has deteriorated so noticeably that one can now feel the enemy’s...
Oct 1st
The Yamal implosion
There is a great deal of excitement among climate sceptics over Steve McIntyre’s recent...
Sep 30th
The financial crisis taught crucial lessons about the...
— Andy Xie Why One Bubble Burst...
Sep 30th
Primed For Upside. I Would Buy
— Jim “Monkey boy”...
Sep 30th
After some pathetic signs of life this summer, Joshua...
Sep 30th
nevver: Print
Sep 30th
We Can’t Cut Spending Why? Because the votes...
Sep 29th
The industry will argue for self-regulation, which bears the...
— Satyajit Das
Sep 29th
Interview with Sadad al Husseini - “The Facts Are There”
Sep 29th
Rally in ‘toxic’ securities set to boost banks By Aline van...
Sep 29th
The potential risk is that a lot of liquidity goes to the...
— Bank of China Vice President...
Sep 29th
Sep 29th
Ten Odd Economic Indicators
Sep 26th
This week's butcher's bill...
From the FDIC: First Citizens Bank and Trust Company, Incorporated, Columbia, South Carolina,...
Sep 26th
Bailout Tab so far...
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Sep 26th
Had some computer trouble…
Sep 26th
The Sun Gets Its Spots Back
Sep 25th
Sep 23rd
Sep 23rd
One of my Fab 5 Fav Analysts...Josh Rosner
Sep 23rd
The Shadow knows...
From Ruth Simon and James Hagerty at the WSJ: Delayed Foreclosures Stalk Market … Legal...
Sep 23rd
A New Bubble Of the Fed’s Creation Washington...
Sep 23rd
Sep 23rd
50 things that are being killed by the...
Sep 22nd
The Pinocchio Recovery
Sep 22nd
Sep 22nd
What did Hank know and when did he know it?
Sep 22nd
Sep 22nd
Amazon: The Digital Wal-Mart of the Web?
It helps when you skirt sales tax laws… NY TIMES — Fifteen years after Jeffrey P. Bezos...
Sep 22nd
D'oh! Scientists pull an about face on global...
Sep 22nd
Sep 22nd
nevver: Happy First Day of Fall
Sep 22nd
Sep 21st
Sep 21st
As if they really knew, leading economists predict that...
— James Grant argues the latest...
Sep 21st
DONE AND UNDONE: In 1933, left, Franklin Roosevelt signed...
Sep 21st
Beyond the Bailout State
Sep 21st
California’s unemployment rate hits 12.2% in August ...
Sep 20th
Betrayal! The U.S. sold us to Russia and stabbed us in the...
— Polish tabloid Fakt, on the...
Sep 18th
"Option ARMs are about to explode"
From Reuters: “Option” mortgages to explode, officials warn “Payment option ARMs...
Sep 18th
Bubblevision (aka CNBC) continues to hemorrhage brain dead...
Sep 18th
This is a good trend...Let's hope it...
As Riches Fade, So Does Finance’s Allure WSJ 09/18/2009 04:46 AM
Sep 18th
How Serial War Became the American Way of...
Sep 18th
China’s coming magnificent bubble –James Saft, Reuters...
Sep 17th
[The problems are] all still here. Today we still have the...
— Nassim Taleb in the Toronto...
Sep 17th
[The Fed] is the story of the millennium. There are very few...
— Congressman Alan Grayson
Sep 16th
Sep 16th
Why capitalism fails
Sep 16th
The astonishing twisters captured by storm-chasing...
Sep 15th
The coming trade wars. Back to the 30s…
Sep 15th
The Deal of the Century
Sep 14th
From Der Spiegel: New York faces dramatic consequences...
Sep 14th
“Revealed: The Ghost Fleet of the...
Sep 14th
Same Old Hope: This Bubble Is Different
Sep 14th
The problems are worse than they were in 2007 before the...
— Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel...
Sep 13th
If you believe the Keynesian argument for stimulus, you...
Sep 13th
We have tried spending money,” Morgenthau wrote in his...
— FDR’s Treasury Secretary...
Sep 13th
Scientists discover surprise in Earth’s upper...
Sep 13th
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Lehman is a footnote in the...
Sep 13th
Another good article from NYTimes: But Who Is Watching...
Sep 13th
From NYTimes: Wall Street’s Math Wizards Forgot a Few...
Sep 13th
Patrick Buchanan: 'Is America coming...
Never been a big fan of Patrick Buchanan but this is worth the read. Flying home from London,...
Sep 13th
The cover of Newsweek: IS YOUR BABY RACIST? This is...
Sep 12th
Creepy...
Dow Jones close 10-sep-2001: 9605.41 Dow Jones close 11-sep-2009: 9605.41
Sep 12th
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
— Balzac
Sep 12th
Sep 12th
It was chilly out there this Summer...
Summer Temperature Below Average for U.S. September 10, 2009 The average June-August 2009 summer...
Sep 12th
I know I know nothing; but at least I know...
Sep 12th
This week's butcher's bill...
Three more for the heap… From the FDIC: Corus Bank, National Association, Chicago,...
Sep 12th
Sep 12th
Fed's Fake Recovery
by Bill Bonner London, England The press attributed this week’s rise in gold to benign...
Sep 11th
Something we should never, never forget…
Sep 11th
The birth of a doomsday machine
Sep 10th
Since 1970, inflation adjusted public school spending has...
Sep 10th
Sep 10th
The myth is that the regulators failed to focus on the...
— Arnold Kling’s article...
Sep 10th
Twilight of the Gods...
om Eric Dash at the NY Times: In Florida, Vestiges of the Boom On the corner of Flamingo Road and...
Sep 10th
Did FDR or WWII end the Great Depression?
Sep 10th
Sep 10th
It’s like the operation of a very high-end restaurant...
— —U.S. Undersecretary of...
Sep 9th
The consumer credit implosion continues...
Sep 9th
Possible October surprises
by Martin Hutchinson Economists’ crystal balls are clouded right now. They see signs of a...
Sep 9th
From NY Times: As an Exotic Mortgage Resets, Payments...
Sep 9th
The Next Financial Crisis: It's coming--and...
Sep 8th
Link-a-palooza
Gold rises above $1,000 an ounce FT 09/08/2009 04:57 AM Stocks Rise for Fourth Day as Gold...
Sep 8th
Oil Spin: Ignore the optimists. Peak oil is...
Sep 8th
This week's butcher's bill...
From the FDIC: Great American Bank, De Soto, Kansas, Assumes All of the Deposits of First Bank of...
Sep 7th
Link-a-palooza
UN Says New Currency Is Needed to Fix Broken ‘Confidence Game’ Bloomberg 09/07/2009 02:49...
Sep 7th
Fixers Aim to Fix Fixes With Another...
by Bill Bonner Baltimore, Maryland From California comes word that the summer program of...
Sep 4th
Link-a-palooza
Loan Losses Spark Concern Over FHA WSJ 09/04/2009 05:16 AM Judges’ Frustration Grows With...
Sep 4th
Cool pic of the LA Fires
Sep 4th
Solar cycle 24 remains missing in...
Are Sunspots Disappearing? The sun is in the pits of the deepest solar minimum in nearly a...
Sep 4th
Expensive Powerball tickets anyone?
“Investors Find Love in $260 Billion Black Hole,” Some things I’ll never understand. ...
Sep 4th
Sep 4th
Is the Obama administration playing politics with Swine Flu?
Sep 3rd
Watch
Congressman Stark (D - CA): “The more debt we owe, the wealthier we are”
Sep 3rd
Sugar High or Acid Trip?
Sep 3rd
Link-a-palooza
US regulators try to avert turf wars FT 09/03/2009 04:16 AM Cerberus to bar withdrawals...
Sep 3rd
New sunspot (1025) has faded away and solar activity will...
Sep 3rd
The troops up at Kajaki Dam are surrounded by the enemy,...
— Michael Yon
Sep 3rd
How large will the bill be?
“The Coming Deposit Insurance Bailout,” the Wall Street Journal highlights another area...
Sep 3rd
The Butcher's Bill is going to be very...
From CNBC: 500 More Banks to Fail By End of 2010: Wilbur Ross “I’m not surprised that the [FDIC’s]...
Sep 3rd
Are conservatives turning on the War in Afghanistan? Time...
Sep 2nd
Watch
Sep 2nd
Bailout Propaganda Begins by Matt Taibbi
Nearly a year after the federal rescue of the nation’s biggest banks, taxpayers have begun seeing...
Sep 2nd
Sep 2nd
Link-a-palooza
Investors fret 2009 stocks rally is over Reuters 09/02/2009 04:05 AM FHA on track for...
Sep 2nd
Sep 2nd
nevver: L.A. Now
Sep 2nd
According to these guys, the future is...
“The Spend-And-Borrow Economy“, Nouriel Roubini, Forbes, 27 August 2009 “An Uncomfortable Choice“,...
Sep 1st
Link-a-palooza
China targets some, not all, derivative deals: source Reuters 09/01/2009 04:56 AM Bigger...
Sep 1st
A Tale of Two Data Sets: John Hussman
Sep 1st
Back to school…Whohoo.
Sep 1st
Playboy, TV Guide sales heading...
Purchases of magazines at newsstands drop 12% —Associated Press
Sep 1st