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Market Watch Update: April 26-30
As of mid-day Friday, April 30, the government bond market was on track to have a good week, with prices up (and therefore yields down, because they...
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R We Having a U Shaped Recovery ?
On April 30, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its first estimate of first quarter real GDP. Typically, the first estimate is revised a lot in...
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Market Watch Update: April 19-23
As of mid-day Friday, April 23, the yield curve looked steeper for the week (that is, interest rates rose on Treasury instruments at the longer end of...
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Webcast at 3pm: National Briefing on Our Budget and Economy
Be sure to join America Speaks this afternoon from 3 - 4:30 pm for a National Briefing on Our Budget and Economy. A panel of experts, including Maya...
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Iceland Ash Blanket Settles Over World Economy
Airline traffic may not be the only thing slowed by Iceland’s volcanic eruptions. The slow-moving, fragile economic recovery may take a hit as well...
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IMF Says our Economies are Looking Better, but the Outlook is still Fragile
According to the IMF, we are entering a new phase of the economic and financial crisis: the world has averted a depression, a recovery is taking hold...
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Weekend Editorial Roundup
Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: Taking off on Ben Bernanke's testimony before Congress last week...
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Market Watch Update: April 12-16
U.S. Treasury markets were relatively quiet most of this week, although some Friday morning news had translated into market gains, as of early...
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Interest Rates and the Fiscal Outlook
A great debate is breaking out over concerns for our growing debt, and it is centered around interest rates on Treasury securities. A fear held by...
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Sovereign Risk Jitters
For budget and market watchers, the month of March has been a little scary. It is not easy to come out of the deepest recession and financial crisis...
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Bank Failures Pass 200 Mark
On Friday evening, the FDIC reported that it has taken over an additional seven banks ( State Bank of Aurora, First Lowndes Bank, Bank of Hiawassee...
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Four More FDIC Bank Closings
On Friday evening, the FDIC reported that it has taken over an additional four banks ( Statewide Bank, Old Southern Bank, The Park Avenue Bank...