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Smoot-Hawley’s Revenge

“The bottom line here is very clear: The US Congress just doesn’t do macro.”  –Stephen Roach, in Past The Point Of No Return
Isn’t it remarkable that the pea-brains on capitol hill don’t link the obvious negative consequences of the trade imbalance with China (manufacturing job loss) with the “positive” results we’ve come to depend on: […]

NovaStar: The Subprime Litmus Test

MorningStar has a pretty nice article out from yesterday featuring duelling analysts regarding the fate of NovaStar. After their almost naively-sanguine and narrowly-scoped Alt-A/banks article last week, I find this a breath of fresh(er) air. While I believe it is a little bit inane to be discussing subprime at this point (the […]

Recession Reality Hits?

A few quick items this morning before I’m off to the factory. The main one is Monster Warns On Q1, on how the purveyor of job ads online is seeing its business take a hit. The reason given is openly described as “economic slowdown”. Labor conditions are noted as problematic. Very […]

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