by Rafael Rosa on March 19, 2010
A few worthy things I found on the financial blogosphere today. Hat tips to The Big Picture, The Pragmatic Capitalist, and Clusterstock. First, here is a recent video from NewDeal20.org featuring famous short-seller Jim Chanos and Professor of Economics Joseph Stiglitz. They talk about the financial crisis, short-selling, naked short-selling, and financial regulation. Not that [...]
by Rafael Rosa on March 17, 2010
Meredith Whitney was on CNBC’s World Wide Exchange yesterday and shared some of her views on the US housing market. In general, she was worried about how the mortgage market will react when the Federal Reserve stops its massive mortgage-backed security buying program. The Fed program is expected to end on March 31, 2010. When [...]
by Rafael Rosa on February 5, 2010
Ben Bernanke from the Federal Reserve is not Fat Joe but he is definitely “making it rain”. On who? On them Bankers. Here is my attempt at visualizing ‘quantitative easing’. Technorati Tags: ben bernanke, bernanke makes it rain, Federal Reserve, quantitative easing., wall street bankers
by admin on June 15, 2009
Inflation concerns have been a headline lately. I wrote a post on the matter a few months ago, The Fears of Inflation, but I thought this would be a good time to revisit the subject. There are quite a few people saying that we’re going to get hyperinflation, or very high or out-of-control inflation. I [...]
by Rafael Rosa on November 14, 2008
In the post, ” The Fed and The Banks“, I had three different graphs showing the activity level between the Fed and its member banks. Since the post on October 19, the trend continues to be the same. In October, the total borrowing of depository institutions from the Fed was reaching $300 Billion. It’s now [...]