Money Matters: US Inflation & The Fed
US Consumer Price Inflation released today surprised to the upside. Core CPI at 2.3% is comfortably above the Fed's inflation target of 2%. As...
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Singapore Banks: A Far Greater Perception-Reality Gap Compared with China Banks
We doubt there are many people who believe that China’s banks have especially safe corporate exposure. Few believe the low 1.8% NPL ratio that...
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Money Matters: I Mera Tis Marmotas
On my Latin key board "I Mera Tis Marmotas" is the closest I can get to the Greek for groundhog day. Traditionally celebrated at the start of...
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Thailand's New Credit Card Honcho
BAY, New King of Plastic. According to a new Poll by my engineering school alma mater Assumption University (2nd biggest campus pollster in...
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Case-Shiller Property Indices Hugely Misleading...and Different from Stocks (LT Invst Windows Tight)
This topic has nagged me for some time. Two months ago when the Case-Shiller Home Price Index “made a new high” and after new highs again this...
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