Ricardo

QE3 in August

The WSJ’s inimitable Hilsenrath has made it clear that the Fed is about to act. The onus is now on

RBA Gov Stevens today gave a speech entitled The Lucky Country in which he laid out the RBA’s view of

The head and tail method I posted a few days back runs into problems with matrices and data-frames (due to

The FT’s Robin Harding interviewed SF Fed’s Williams and came away more convinced that the Fed is on the verge

I’ve got a bit of time to kill, so I’ve solved three (small and nerdy) problems that have been bothering

The reporting of recent AUD strength is getting a little unbalanced. See here for an example. This tone really gets

I think that the reporting of Fed Chairman Bernanke’s testimony to congress has been a little naive. While it’s certainly

Prior to the RBA’s July meeting, my hunch was that the RBA would drop back to a weak easing bias.

The Q2 CPI number for NZ printed at 0.3%q/q, taking the annual inflation pace down to 1% (the RBNZ has

My friend Chris Joye has already blogged about the house price bounce that appears in his data, but I thought

Jim Hamilton knows a few of the key decision makers, and he thinks the Fed does QE3 (which i take

With not much interesting on the data front, I have been spending some time with R. I still find the