Here’s One Way Out of the Debt Ceiling Impasse

By: Francis Cianfrocca (Diary)  |  July 19th at 09:57 AM  | 

Ok, let’s look at both the politics and the economics of this issue. The underlying politics is as follows: the American people are sick and tired of deficit spending. The pundits are completely wrong when they downplay this issue, because deficits are FAR worse now than they ever have been in peacetime (10+% of GDP). And they got far worse at almost the exact moment | Read More »

The Greek Debt Swap: Is it a Default, or isn’t it?

By: Francis Cianfrocca (Diary)  |  July 5th at 01:45 PM  | 

While you were watching imported Chinese fireworks yesterday, the Europeans were shooting off some home-grown ones. The euro has been trading down for most of the last 24 hours, as S&P and Fitch announced that they would consider the French-led rollover plan for Greek debt a “selective” default. What’s really going on is that a negotiation is taking place over what should be the credit | Read More »