Greece, Sovereign Default and the Concept of Solvency
Wednesday, 29 June 2011 | 6:42 am
The investment world is replete with opinions and scenarios of a Greek sovereign default. Many commentators speak of Greece being insolvent, but what does this mean in the strictly technical sense of the word. It is difficult to envisage the insolvency of a sovereign. Default, however, is another matter which is related to solvency but
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Investment Strategy: The New Macro
Friday, 24 June 2011 | 2:39 am
Investing has become more fraught with danger as policy attempts to do what policy has never done before. New ways of thinking about asset allocation need to be developed. We begin with prospects for a few economies and how they should be expressed under these new regimes. Prospects for the US economy: GDP is comprised
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Ten Seconds Into The Future 2011 06
Tuesday, 07 June 2011 | 8:33 am
A peek at the future seen through a cracked and hazy crystal ball… The US economy is in recession. The US economy had been supported in the past year by large scale debt monetization and concomitant Fed balance sheet expansion. The absence of monetary expansion has exposed the fragility of the recovery. That the economy
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QE3 Is Already Underway
Wednesday, 01 June 2011 | 8:34 am
Just as the transition from QE to QE2, the purchase of MBS to the purchase of US treasuries was a seamless exercise, so too the transition to QE3, the funding of banks to purchase US treasuries will be seamless and this time if done right, done without fanfare. The US economy cannot survive higher interest
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Investment Outlook and Strategy 2011 2H
Tuesday, 31 May 2011 | 12:35 am
Investors have short memories. While the reasons for the 2008 financial crisis have not gone away or been adequately addressed, markets have recovered nicely.
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