RealClearMarkets: May 9, 2008 Archives

May 9, 2008 Archives

Dollar Danger Is Not Over Yet - Editorial, Financial Times
A Little Pity, Please, for Lenders - Floyd Norris, NY Times
Vultures Circle Leveraged Loan Market - Mark Gilbert, Bloomberg
Definition of a Recession - Editorial, Washington Times
Coming Soon: Citigroup's Grand Plan - Carol Loomis, Fortune
Blame the Fed - Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr., Reason
How to Use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve - Lincoln Anderson, WSJ
Why $120 Oil is Good - Steve Hargreaves, CNNMoney
Unusual Suspects Profit From War - Nick Turse, LA Times
Crippling U.S. Trade Interests - Morris Beschloss, Desert Sun
IPOs: Back from the Dead? - Ben Steverman, BusinessWeek
Yes, The Market's Unfair - Paul Maidment, Forbes

Election Year + $124 Crude Oil = Silly Solutions - C. Baum, Bloomberg
Why Oil Wealth Fuels Conflict - Michael Ross, Foreign Affairs
The Urgent Need To Abandon Inflation Targeting - J. Stiglitz, P. Syndicate
The Misguiding Hand of Statistical Models - Jon Danielsson, VoxEU
The Financial Crises Of Capitalism - Samuel Brittan, Financial Times
Obama's Faulty Tax Argument - Andrew Biggs, Wall Street Journal
Russia: An Economy Of Clay - Owen Matthews, Newsweek
The House of Jaime Dimon - Lisa Kassenaar & Elizabeth Hester, Bloomberg

Debates on the Role of Money - James Picerno, Capital Spectator
McArdle vs. Warren, Round 1: Are We Saving Enough? - AngryBear
What If We'd Been on the Gold Standard? - James Hamilton, Econbrowser
Commodities Boom Driven by Speculation? - Y. Smith, Naked Capitalism

Paulson Says Rebate Checks Will Boost Economy - Bloomberg
Martin Wolf on the ECB, Fed and the Euro - CNBC
Izzo: Economists Say Weak Growth Ahead - K. Hubbard, MarketWatch
Soros Blames 'Super-Bubble' on Reagan - Gregg Greenberg, TheStreet

Initial jobless claims fell 18,000 to 365,000 - Bear Stearns
US Dollar to Consolidate Recent Gains - Brown Brothers Harriman
Fed Naturally Below Neutral - Joachim Fels, Morgan Stanley
Fluff & Stuff - Bob Eisenbeis, Cumberland