So at last the world is telling America a simple thing. You cannot live beyond your means for too long. When they had a huge deficit, they went to war at Afghanistan. Then at Iraq. It does not matter how much money you have – if you burn it fast enough, it will be over! […]

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This is the headline that Jonathan Weil used in his article in Bloomberg. You must read the full article. Here is a summary: Freddie had accumulated $ 34.3 billion (yes Billion) of paper losses, but excluded them from calculation of regulatory capital. All Freddie had to do was say the losses were “temporary” and they […]

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Living in a “socialist” country and having heard slogans like “garibi hatao”, nationalisation, etc. there was some chance that RBI governor does not believe in market economics. But USA? Aw, come on Ben has to believe in free markets, or so we thought. No. He does not. He comes up with aspirin for patients who […]

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