Discussing whether the Obama administration’s plan will help stabilize the financial system, with Carl Levinson, Citigroup former senior executive and Jim Rickards, Omnis Inc. senior managing director.
Airtime: Mon. Jun. 8 2009 | 7:00 AM ET
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. —John Kenneth Galbraith
Asian currencies continue to sell off vs the $ on the heels of the news yesterday that South Korea said they will look into hot money inflows stemming from the $ carry trade and the Bank of Indonesia said they are looking into the foreign buying of bills. This follows the news a few weeks ago that Taiwan was limiting foreign deposit holdings and Brazil was taxing foreign inflow transactions. As I mentioned yesterday, we may have reached a short term pain threshold in terms of $ weakness and foreign countries are fighting back as they certainly won't wait for...
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June 8th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Phil & Wendy Gramm, the Bonnie & Clyde of Deregulation