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The U. S. Budget Deficit: It's Time to Get Serious! - Economics online follower

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171; Older Entries. The U S. Budget Deficit: Its Time to Get Serious! The United States budget deficit will reach $1.48 billion in the 2011 fiscal year, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The response: everyone seems to be pointing fingers at everyone else. The President, on Wednesday evening in his State of the Union address, indicated that something needed to be done about the budget deficit. Yesterday the CBO released its figures. There’s leadership for you. The current estimate was constru...

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When Will Banks Begin Lending Again? - Economics online follower

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171; Older Entries. When Will Banks Begin Lending Again? War in middle east. Right now, the commercial banks are not lending…and there doesn’t seem to be much reason to believe that they will pick up their lending any time soon. Banks will continue to be reluctant to lend if they don’t have a good idea of what the asset side of their balance sheet looks like. And, what of the Obama administration and the new plans for fiscal stimulus? An economic stimulus package, however, will not result in an immediate...

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The Obama Stimulus Plan and the Dollar - Economics online follower

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171; Older Entries. The Obama Stimulus Plan and the Dollar. All eyes, right now, are on the forming Obama administration and the economic plan they are constructing. We get the word that we can expect fiscal deficits in the neighborhood of one trillion dollars and we can expect large deficits for several consecutive years. Place chart here from St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank. Http:/ research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/DEXUSEU? With projections for such huge amounts of federal government debt hitting the...

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No "Green Shoots" in the Banking Sector Yet - Economics online follower

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171; Older Entries. No Green Shoots in the Banking Sector Yet. Although analysts have detected “Green Shoots” in the economy signaling the possibility that there may be a recovery occurring sometime soon, it is my belief that we will need to see some signs of life in the banking system before we can get too excited about any sustainable upswing. Right now, I don’t see any “Green Shoots” in the area of commercial banking. In terms of banks lending to other banks, from June last year to June this year, the...

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Credit Market Debt: Why Is So Much Going to Bank Holding Companies? - Economics online follower

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171; Older Entries. Credit Market Debt: Why Is So Much Going to Bank Holding Companies? In bank holding companies. Credit market debt increased by only 3% from the end of the second quarter of 2008 to the end of the quarter of 2009, a total of roughly $1.5 trillion. Of course, the primary story concerns the shifts in borrowing that took place during this time. The data used in this analysis is from the Flow of Funds accounts from the Federal Reserve. But, this is not a surprise for we knew this was coming.

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People Are Saving More Out Of Fear - Economics online follower

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171; Older Entries. People Are Saving More Out Of Fear. This may be more of a macro issue, but the Wall Street Journal reported that "personal saving as a percentage of after-tax income rose to 5.7% in April, the Commerce Department said Monday, up from 4.5% in March and well above the zero savings rate reported a year earlier." The article is called Americans Get Even Thriftier as Fears Persist. Just as the Great Depression ushered in a shift in behavior that affected an entire generation, Mr. Carro...

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The Shadow of Lula - Economics online follower

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171; Older Entries. The Shadow of Lula. It is remarkable to see the accolades being heaped on retiring Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Who would have believed this would be the case eight years ago. Even the Financial Times has as its lead editorial “Brazil Dazzles Global Finance” (See http:/ www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9de004be-ca68-11df-a860-00144feab49a.html. Brazilian real since the beginning of last year. Brazil is now listened to around the world. Every day, we, particularly in the United Sta...

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Why Debt Is Going To Continue To Be A Problem In The United States - Economics online follower

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171; Older Entries. Why Debt Is Going To Continue To Be A Problem In The United States. Officials at the Federal Reserve and in many other leadership positions around the world believe that liquidity is the solution to our current woes. And, if the amount of liquidity that is in the anking and financial markets is not enough to resolve our problems then more liquidity is certainly the answer. This is behind QE2, and this is behind most of the effort to resolve the sovereign debt crisis in Europe. The peo...

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Banking Keeps Changing: BankUnited and China's ICBC - Economics online follower

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171; Older Entries. Banking Keeps Changing: BankUnited and Chinas ICBC. In Bank of East Asia. Bank United sold 29 million shares of stock at an initial public offering on Thursday evening for $27 per share. This put the value of the bank around $2.6 billion. The IPO on Thursday produced a lot of money for the owners. The owners are expected to take away more than $500 million from the offering and they still will maintain an ownership in the company of about 70%, more than $1.8 billion. The b...It seems ...