Alan Blinder, an economics professor at Princeton University and former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, talks with Bloomberg’s Tom Keene about Federal Reserve monetary policy, the risks of inflation, Treasuries and employment.
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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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May 30th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Assuming the Federal Reserve is not disbanded, who should replace Bernanke? My vote would be Blinder.
May 30th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
fear in the bond market, greed in the stock market, and we’ll all make out like bandits.