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Moneylife Digital Team 07 January 2014
Yellen, described by Obama as the country’s most respected economists, is expected to be sworn in on 1st February as head of US Fed The US Senate has confirmed appointment of Janet Yellen as the head of the Federal Reserve, making her the first woman to lead the world’s most powerful...

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William Gamble 06 January 2014
We have some idea now what happens when stimulus programs are instituted. But what we don’t know and will soon find out is what happens when these programs are ended. No doubt the predictions will be very wrong again In the story entitled Silver Blaze, the great detective Sherlock Holmes...

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William Gamble 30 December 2013
Free money from the US Fed allowed Turkey, South Africa, India, Brazil, and Indonesia and others to run deficits as their higher interest rates created a demand for their bonds and currencies. Now that has reversed So far the markets seem to have taken the US Federal Reserve’s (Fed)...

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William Gamble 23 December 2013
Centralised systems have done everything possible to pursue stability at all costs increasing the probability of a large failure. Like the Fed, the Chinese have tried to stabilize their system and now may have to pay the costs Well, it finally happened. After over seven months of...

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Jake Bernstein  and   Jesse Eisinger (ProPublica) 19 December 2013
There have now been more than $435 million in SEC settlements regarding one of the most notorious groups of mortgage securities deals behind the financial crisis Five years after the financial crisis, the Securities and Exchange Commission appears to be wrapping up its investigation into...

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AK Ramdas 17 December 2013
The "aam aadmi" of India and Pakistan is not really interested in the politics, but wants to carry on with life on a day-to-day basis Pakistani foreign office spokesperson, Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhury said, India and Pakistan need to address the mistrust that exists between them, responding to...

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William Gamble 16 December 2013
Governments in all markets have encouraged speculators to bid up assets by creating a version of reality that may not exist. If a more accurate picture emerges, those same speculators may then punish them severely Markets all over the world are supposed to act as an indicator of their...

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Paul Kiel (ProPublica) 16 December 2013
High-cost lenders exploit laws tipped in their favour to sue tens of thousands of Americans every year. The result: A $1,000 loan grows to $40,000 A version of this story was published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Sunday. Five years ago, Naya Burks of St. Louis borrowed $1,000...

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Marian Wang (ProPublica) 04 December 2013
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced increased oversight of the companies that act as go-between for student borrowers and lenders Sallie Mae and other large student-loan servicers -- the companies that act as a go-between for borrowers and lenders -- will soon be getting...

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William Gamble 25 November 2013
The new reforms announced over the summer and at the conclusion of the Third Plenum of the 18th Party Congress are supposed to change all this. But they have a long way to go Laws are meant to be obeyed. So when politicians, bureaucrats, and even central bankers have a problem they...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 November 2013
The US quantitative easing (QE) programme may continue in 2013 it is likely that any tapering may be delayed much beyond March 2014, says State Bank of India (SBI) in a research report.   "The dynamics of US economic recovery will require that housing prices recover appreciably which...

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William Gamble 05 November 2013
The world was pushed into a global recession when the US debt mountain collapsed in 2008. At present, overall debt burden relative to GDP is higher in India, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, China and Malaysia, up to 30% higher than in the US. What will be the effect if the global debt...

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William Gamble 28 October 2013
Theoretically, the job of central bankers, CEOs and politicians is to protect us from risks that could lead to disaster. As the world’s market feast on easy money and massive debt, one might consider who got us here and that when (not if) the event occurs, they won’t be the ones to suffer

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William Gamble 21 October 2013
RBI governor Raghuram Rajan tried to tell his colleagues about the dangers from flood of money from developed countries, but no one wants to listen. Eventually interest rates will rise higher than the present levels either because of uncertainty, inflation fears or tapering You have to...

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William Gamble 14 October 2013
Hopefully the market’s optimism over the Washington negotiations will prove correct and the US economy and global markets will not collapse. But that does not mean that the present valuations are justified by forecasts of growth both for the global economy and corporate earnings On...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 October 2013
How does Raghuram Rajan, the governor of the RBI, view the experiment of fiscal stimulus that the US Federal Reserve, under Ben Bernanke, has been pursuing? Remember, Rajan had correctly warned in 2005 that a combination of low interest rates, financial innovation, rising asset prices, and...

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William Gamble 07 October 2013
The US government has shut down 17 times before. The worst was in 1995 and the market only dropped 3%. So, a government shutdown is not seen as a market moving event. Failure to raise the debt ceiling, which allows the government to keep borrowing and potentially avoid default, is another...

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William Gamble 30 September 2013
Although the most corrupt and biggest offenders are Chinese companies, it is unlikely domestic pharmaceutical and food manufacturing firms will face the kind of regulatory challenges imposed on their foreign competitors any time soon The Chinese leadership wants to rebalance and reform...

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William Gamble 23 September 2013
Do not expect policymakers, including US Fed and Chinese leadership, to admit that they followed a policy of too much stimulus similar to the one that caused the 2008 crash. For them it is simply easier to ignore the risks and keep the money flowing This week despite the endless fanfare...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 September 2013
Asian equities, currencies and bonds have taken a beating over the last few months after the U.S. Federal Reserve hinted it would halt its nearly five-year policy of flooding markets with cheap cash, points out Reuters in its release on its Asia Business Sentiment survey Business...

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