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Fri Nov 21

• This is Not Financial Meltdown - Finance Blog - Felix Salmon - Market Movers - Portfolio.com: this is no reprise of the financial crisis we saw in the wake of Lehman's collapse. Rather, it's an old-fashioned economic crisis, which severely erodes the equity of leveraged banks, but where money still flows and even the occasional IPO can get away if it's priced at a discount. Or, to put it another way: it's a bear market, not a financial meltdown. Which might be little solace to anybody whose stocks have been crushed of later, but which might help reassure policymakers at least a little.
• US Global Trends report: Key points
• The Capital Spectator: UNSAFE AT ANY YIELD?: This much, however, is clear: Several years from now, when we all look back on 2008, many of us will promise to buy if junk spreads ever go that high again. The lesson being: great bargains only look compelling in a rear-view mirror and talk is cheap.
• What's Happening to Berkshire Hathaway? - Finance Blog - Felix Salmon - Market Movers - Portfolio.com: So yes, Berkshire might be looking cheap -- but other stocks are looking cheaper, and always remember that Berkshire, like any insurance company, is very highly leveraged, with contingent liabilities many times higher than its asset base. AIG and the monolines were brought down because they stopped insuring real-world risks and started insuring financial risks. Berkshire' ;s in the same business, with its credit default swaps and equity puts. Which means that in fraught times like these, there will be lots of question marks over its real value.
• Pushing on a string - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com: Bernanke?s problem, and ours. This picture shows the target Fed funds rate, the usual tool of monetary policy; the 10-year Treasury rate; and two rates that actually matter to the private sector, the mortgage rate and the rate on Baa-rated corporate bonds. The Fed has had no success in reducing mortgage rates, and corporate borrowing costs have gone up, not down. Add in falling expectations of inflation, and in real terms monetary policy has gotten tighter, not easier.
• Gav's Blog
• Morning Commentary, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty: As far as the currency goes, I vote for the "tallest pygmy" explanation. As bad as things look here, where are they looking better? Japan? Western Europe? Russia? Emerging markets? The main shock is a tremendous increase in the risk premium, in every country and in every market. That seems to cause a flood of money into U.S. Treasury securities, which raises the value of the dollar and lowers exactly one set of nominal interest rates--those on regular (not inflation-inde xed) Treasuries
• Mismatch on fingerprint biometrics : Robin Wilton's esoterica
• The Epicurean Dealmaker: Graveyard Spiral: While descending turns are commonly performed by pilots as a standard flight manoeuvre, the spiral dive is differentiated from a descending turn owing to its feature of accelerating speed. It is therefore an unstable flight condition and pilots are trained to recognise its onset, and to implement recovery procedures safely and immediately. Without intervention by the pilot, acceleration of the aircraft will lead to structural failure of the airframe, either as a result of excess aerodynamic loading or flight into terrain. Spiral dive training therefore revolves around pilot recognition and recovery.
• Lux Delux - The best Risk game there is

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