ricardian ambivalence

Does the ECB have what it takes?

Equities ripped, bonds sold off, and the little Aussie bruiser rallied to ~1.04 last night on reports that ECB Draghi

TM comes to the same conclusion as i have, mostly for the same reasons: These would broadly point to rates

The short term outlook for the RBA is now pretty clear – it’s for a period of steady policy rates

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

Adam Bandt on Channel 10 this morning: What we do know is that, on the results we’ve seen so far,

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.