Capital and Interest Theory

Punk, Ziegel analyst Richard X. Bove argues here that recent Fed policies and pronouncement amount to a bailout of Countrywide Financial. If so, then Bernanke's Fed is similar to Greenspan's in...

The turmoil in financial markets is eliciting the usual response from the central bankers, all up there in their Hueys, 'Die Walkuere' blasting out of their beat boxes. But the fixation on the 'sub-prime' angle and on the Fed's role in isolation only tells part of the story. While...

...it's easier to use the new $200,000 note issued by the RBZ. It is worth US$13 at the official exchange rate or $1 on the black market.

Addendum: Lest anyone...

Chris McGreal reports from Harare:

Zimbabweans are shopping like there's no tomorrow. With police patrolling the aisles of Harare's electrical shops to enforce massive government-ordered price cuts, the...