Category: Global markets

Yin and Yank?

1 April, 2009 (10:45) | Capital markets, China, Global markets, Securitization, US News | 1 comment

In the weeks and months to come, you will hear much wailing about Chinese policy this and Chinese economic pressure that – and there’s no doubt that China’s economic policy now has a powerful effect on America’s – but let that not blind you to the curious (and potentially hopeful?) interdependency that appears now to [...]

The Law of Economic Pressure: Part 2, China’s push?

10 February, 2009 (10:41) | Capital markets, Essential posts, Global markets, Primer Posts, Speculation, Subprime, US News | No comments

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 
Yesterday’s post highlighted a deliberately provocative Washington Post Op Ed, What OPEC Teaches China, by Sebastian Mallaby, arguing that our pricing expansion – and now the painful contraction – were caused by deliberate currency manipulation from China.
 

I am offended that you question my motives
 
The second rival account of the crisis … [...]

The Law of Economic Pressure: Part 1, America’s pull?

9 February, 2009 (13:18) | Capital markets, Essential posts, Global markets, Primer Posts, Speculation, Subprime, US News | No comments

Whose fault is the implosion following our hyperinflated pricing bubble? 
 

I couldn’t make things ADD up …
 
Not subprime lending.  Not CRA.  Not US profligacy.  Maybe it’s starvation for yield, or maybe it’s a kind of currency smuggling by manipulating the exchange rate by China, as speculated in a deliberately provocative Washington Post Op Ed, What [...]