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Source:
Central Banks Are Creatures of Financial Crises
JUSTIN LAHART
WSJ, JANUARY 27, 2009
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123302236816918321.html
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"Overall household indebtedness is up from $7 trillion to almost $10 trillion since 2000. On this sum, we estimate, the American consumer has an annual interest bill of more than $500 billion; a sum, by the way, that vastly exceeds his current income growth." —Kurt Richebacher
Knowing that the vote over the weekend in Greece was really a referendum on Euro membership, a majority of the Greek Parliament said yes to staying. European Finance Ministers meet again on Wednesday to solidify the 2nd bailout package for Greece at the same time hopefully a deal is consummated between Greece and its creditors this week. The Greek 14.5b euro bond that matures on March 20th is up by 2 pts. The optimism that all will be completed and contained AGAIN to Greece has yields lower in Portugal, Spain and Italy. The iTraxx Financial Index is also narrower by...
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January 27th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
It totally makes sense from an earnings perspective. Here is a chart indicating dow 4,400 as reasonable and within historical norms based on trading around earnings. http://seekingalpha.com/article/116384-phat-pe-historical-analysis-15-chance-dow-could-see-below-4-400
January 27th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
Love history. As everybody knows, one does not learn anything from past errors, but you can see what you are probably gonna get with similar conditions.
January 28th, 2009 at 11:38 am
요!쾌남의 생각…
농담같지 않은, 재연….