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WSJ, CNBC and NYTimes all confirm Yellen as the WH choice so its not a rumor almost a done deal. Buy your wheelbarrels at amazon.com with free shipping

Yellen said to be top choice for fed vice-chairman choice http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=aKyXWYGlO.SA Front not moving on this but to me its quite big, it would mean a dovish chairman and a very dovish vice chair. As some ex-FOMC voters say 'its hard to vote against the...

Instead of looking at required reserves and make conclusions about the deposit base, might as well look at the deposit base. M2 growth in the past 3 months was 0.5% at seasonally adjusted annual rates http://federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/Current/ The required reserves component is...

Just bought a small position on GGP at $14.5, a stock I almost bought last year at $2(damn). Bill Ackman case on the stock makes sense and the $15 bid for the company puts some kind of floor while I wait for a higher bid or its post bk valuation to reach the industry level

An interesting fact "More than 40 per cent of global GDP now resides in jurisdictions (overwhelmingly in the advanced economies) running fiscal deficits of 10 per cent of GDP or more. For much of the past 30 years, this fluctuated in the 0-5 per cent range and was dominated by emerging...

So it appears the movies will now have a futures market based on box office results http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/business/media/11futures.html?ref=global That sounds fun but honestly I dont have a clue how one would go about predicting these things. I find tennis sports betting...

The bloomberg 'extended period' article might hold some hawkish implications but at least it sends the Greenlaw theory of 'hikes with the statement in' to the garbage can http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=aFU6r1vdqIb8 "The Federal Reserve’s pledge to keep interest rates...

From dailyspeculations Stefan Jovanovich: "The gentleman from Omaha has an easy standard of comparison. If you apply the average tax rate of the S&P companies to Berkshire's past 20 years' earnings, the company's book value drops by roughly 1/3rd. Never mind being a specialist in a bull...

The fact that he is not a big fan doesnt mean he wouldn't vote for it, and I mean this seriously. These guys love to talk all kinds of nonsense when they are out of the FOMC rotation, as soon as they sit down they are back to sanity. Bullard doesnt seem to be about to dissent any time soon

"So, at the time of maximum policy stimulus (second-half of 2009), final sales were growing only at a pathetic 1.8 percent average rate," Roubini explained. http://www.cnbc.com/id/35792768

Some quick facts Another reason I might want to stay out of ZQ for a while "Jan Hatzius, chief U.S. economist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in New York, said in a March 6 e-mail to customers that he anticipates payrolls this month will climb by about 275,000. About 50,000 of that represents...

The goverment seems to want to restrict short selling in stocks they have a stake on(C, FNM, FRE, AIG), they soared today

As far as I know its tough to get Iran wires through the Swift wire system

There are talks of Janet Yellen taking over the Fed vice-chairman role, I believe she is one of the big contenders -For one, she is a big dove, like wheelbarrel style dove -For two, she is a woman, so the White House can come out and say she is the first female Fed vice-chair(I believe) and...

Effective Fed Funds 0.17% for friday, just released. I have no interest in purchasing ZQ without more info on whats the ceiling. I'm betting its around 0.20% on average but I'm not certain

The guy is a big hawk, they just dont flat out say it like this but you can bet that the fact he doenst say 'extended period' is a bad idea or that 0% is too low, speaks volumes about his views

Volcker supports 0% rates http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=avVlHkbPxJ1s

Stock seems to have done a delayed collapse after the management change announcement. I believe the stock collapses hard within 12 months as it seems the government is serious and management is scared, we will see if this is correct

I wonder how she received the dividends, mail?

In theory the ceiling in the fed funds is the discount rate at 0.75% but I dont believe the NYFed desk would allow the ff go above 0.25%, which is a possibility if t-bills were to continue to crash. They would be authorized to buy USTs and they could effectively engineer a t-bill shortage by...