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U.S. consumer confidence rose 15 points to 56 in November – the largest gain since 2003. Standard & Poor's lower ratings on 37 ban...

(Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are planning more drastic means - including a quick new Sta...

It is not inevitable that the EU – or democracy – will survive this mess   Pessimism always has the best tunes, and I remain instinctively a...

Poll: Fox News Viewers Are Less Informed Than Those Watching No News . Why has no one at MF Global nor Corzine been charged by powers that...

Self-serving myths of Europe’s neo-Calvinists The hallmark of fiscal integration is mutualisation – a greater pooling of budgetary resourc...

You may want to examine the Euro Dollar and Libor Fed Funds Spread charts.

U.S. leading indicators rose 0.9%, the most since February (SBMRY) SabMiller the brewer reported that fiscal first-half net income rose 2...

MoM U.S. October Retail Sales rose 0.5%; MoM U.S. PPI fell 0.3% in October and 5.9% YoY Canada: Manufacturing Shipments rose 2.6% in Sept...

A limitless power source for the indefinite future Some background: By 2030–40, the projected annual electrical energy consumption will be...

Pritchard: The ECB is under intense pressure to step up purchases of Italian bonds after premier Silvio Berlusconi finally relinquished powe...

Dispelling An Enduring Myth With One Image If the Earth’s temperature was the same year after year, then the effects of increasing greenho...

YoY U.S. intermodal traffic rose 3.5% for the week ended Saturday The Greek Unemployment rate in August 2011 was 18.4% compared to 12.2% i...

Bonuses were paid to MF Global ‘s UK staff just hours before the company filed for bankruptcy protection in New York. (Bloomberg) A kilogr...

(Washington Post) Wall Street firms — either independent companies or the high-flying trading arms of banks — are doing even better. They’v...

Mario Draghi made his debut as head of the ECB with a surprise interest rate cut from 1.5% to 1.25%. Mario Gabelli: Greece has about as mu...

Revenge of the Sovereign Nation When the history books are written, I think scholarship will be very harsh on the handful of men running EMU...

Angela Merkel's approach -- to decelerate rather than succumb to panic -- is starting to pay off. Euro-zone agreed to reduce Greece'...

IT's view of Dow Theory is back to bullish http://is.gd/U7MWjQ Big banks found themselves under pressure in Europe's debt crisis ...

Senate GOP kills Obama plan for  hiring  400,000  teachers and first responders. (FT)The European banking crisis is spilling over into com...

U.S. wholesale prices rose 6.9% YoY. Human Genome (HGSI) rose on Tuesday following a report in the U.K.'s Daily Mail that GlaxoSmithKl...

OWS Sign: "I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one" Bloomberg: European leaders have one week to settle...

Rabbit-Hole Economics The Great Recession should have been a huge wake-up call. Nothing like this was supposed to be possible in the modern...

While some warn of an imminent recession transports seem to point the other way. http://is.gd/5w3qPd          http://is.gd/ikXlcm (FT) Chi...

My Advice to the Occupy Wall Street Protesters by Matt Taibbi 1. Break up the monopolies . The so-called "Too Big to Fail" fina...

PIMCO's Bill Gross: Class warfare by the 99%? Of course, they’re fighting back after 30 years of being shot at. Senate Republican/Tea v...

Dexia, a Belgian-French Bank, was leveraged by more than 100 times. It has assets exceeding Euro 500 billion and equity of just 5 billion  -...

Confronting the Malefactors There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear, but we may, at long last, be seeing the rise ...

European Central Bank surprised and kept rates at 1.5%. U.S. first time claims for unemployment benefits rose 6,000 to 401,000 U.S. Home...

Financial Times: European Union finance ministers are examining ways of coordinating recapitalizations of financial institutions. Dexia is...

The Occupy Wall Street / 99% had at least 700 people arrested over the weekend. Wall Street bankers are withholding funds from Barack Obama...

Protectionism beckons as leaders push world into Depression   "The need to act in the collective interest has yet to be recognised. Unl...

U.S. GDP grew by 1.3% in Q2, up from 0.4% in Q1 U.S. unemployment benefits dropped 37,000 to 391,000 in the week ending September 24 and th...

It's the Inequality, Stupid A huge share of the nation's economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth o...

The 111% MoM rise in the Swiss monetary base is by far the biggest since 1973. The IMF said that the global economy had entered a “new and...

S&P cuts Italy's sovereign-debt rating to A. German PPI YoY rose 5.5% Swiss exports fell 7% MoM in August Construction output ...

Can China escape as world's debt crisis reaches Act III? Whatever the mix: there is simply too much global investment, and too little c...

(FT) European central banks have become net buyers of gold for the first time in more than two decades. The bungling execs at UBS, announ...

U.S. consumer sentiment rose to 57.8 in the preliminary reading for September after tumbling to a nearly three-year low 55.7 in August Lux...

UBS said a trader of its investment bank unit has caused a loss estimated at USD 2 bln   Moody's cutting the long-term credit rating...

Greek 10 year yields at 24%. German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected the idea of a hasty bankruptcy by Greece. The dry bulk market kept ...

The U.S. National Association for Business Economics (NABE) cut projections for U.S. economic growth in 2011 and 2012 to 1.7%t this year, do...

'We Did Exactly What Al-Qaida Wanted Us to Do' The Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu said a long time ago: "If you know your...

The parrot thinks the short term S&P cycle low should be right about now http://is.gd/VAPqgS The M’s are moving right along especially...

An Impeccable Disaster What Mr. Trichet and his colleagues should be doing right now is buying up Spanish and Italian debt — that is, doing...

Germany Said to Ready Plan to Help Banks If Greece Defaults. The resignation of a key official from the European Central Bank was the late...

U.S. Fixed mortgage rates fell this week to the lowest levels in six decades. U.S. weekly applications for unemployment benefits rose 2...