Apr 4, 2010

Daily Markets - Financial News And Opinions

Daily Markets - Financial News And Opinions


Top 5 Economic Graphs For The Week Ended 4 April 2010

Posted: 04 Apr 2010 10:01 AM PDT

After a few weeks of absence, and back by popular demand, here’s the top 5 graphs of the week. This week we look at the Asian powerhouses; China’s PMI, Japan’s influential quarterly Tankan survey and February international trade stats. Then we look at the western powers with EU unemployment and inflation, and a review of the US employment numbers.

To boil it down a little, there’s further signs of strength and improvement in China, slightly positive signs in Japan’s slow and fragile … [visit site to read more]


Greenspan, Summers, And Why The Economy Is So Out Of Whack

Posted: 04 Apr 2010 08:28 AM PDT

I'm in the "green room" at ABC News, waiting to join a roundtable panel discussion on ABC's weekly Sunday news program, This Week.
Alan Greenspan is now being interviewed. He says he bore no responsibility for the housing bubble that catapulted the nation into a financial crisis in 2008 because no one could have known about the bubble when he chaired the Fed in the years before it burst. Larry Summers was interviewed just before Greenspan. He said the economy is expanding, that the … [visit site to read more]


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