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The Renegade Economist Talkshow - July 3rd
July 3, 2009 | 10:42 am | 3 Comments

If you want to know when the housing market is going to recover and why this crash is different to the 90’s don’t miss this weeks instalment of news and views from the Renegade Economist.
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The Guardian - Recession has bottomed out, say business leaders…
June 22, 2009 – 8:26 pm | One Comment

The Guardian - Recession has bottomed out, say business leaders…

The mood among UK business leaders has hit its highest level for a year, with a small majority believing that the bottom of the business cycle has been …

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How much has your MP claimed? Have a look here…
June 10, 2009 – 8:23 pm | 4 Comments
How much has your MP claimed? Have a look here…

The Renegade Economist has been sent some of the data behind the MP’s expenses row.
Here is the spreadsheet for the 2007/8 claims -  interesting reading.
No-one at Renegade Economist HQ realised that it was so expensive to live …

The big questions are too hot to handle
June 5, 2009 – 11:19 am | 4 Comments
The big questions are too hot to handle

In all the newspaper articles, in all the radio programmes and TV shows now exposing our MP’s expenses, and previously, our failed bankers’ bonuses, two core issues have been strikingly missed. One is to question …

New York Post: A trillion-dollar storm in commercial property
May 25, 2009 – 7:14 pm | No Comment

A trillion-dollar storm is gathering over the commercial real estate landscape that’s threatening to add further pain to an already bruised US economy.
The commercial debt securitization market is dead and the outcome looks stark for …

The Renegade Economist Podcast - setting the scene
May 25, 2009 – 5:15 pm | One Comment
The Renegade Economist Podcast - setting the scene

Sit back and listen to The Renegade Economist bring sense the the economic situation we are in today.  In this instalment we look at how we got here…

Cathartic Clean-out - The People Pay For Bankers Re-hab
May 19, 2009 – 1:53 pm | 2 Comments
Cathartic Clean-out - The People Pay For Bankers Re-hab

The collapse of the Western financial sector was just what the doctor ordered, for the bankers. They had reached the point where they needed a cathartic clean-out. Their bloated excesses couldn’t go on, so a …

Fed Inspector General Knows Roughly Nothing About The Fed
May 15, 2009 – 3:30 pm | One Comment

Tony Beckwith, a Renegade Economist, reader sent us a link today and we were so shocked by the absolute inability of someone who is one of the most powerful people in US banking to explain …

The Downing Street Letters… that Gordon Brown doesn’t want you to read
April 20, 2009 – 11:32 am | No Comment
The Downing Street Letters… that Gordon Brown doesn’t want you to read

In 1997 Fred Harrison wrote to Tony Blair and his Ministers: “I am your worst nightmare.  I know exactly why New Labour will fail”.   For ten years Harrison identified for Gordon Brown the policies that …

The man who predicted the Depression in 1997
April 19, 2009 – 11:40 am | One Comment
The man who predicted the Depression in 1997

The document that spelt out the mechanism that would drive the global economy into depression was published in 1997.  The land-led property boom was globally synchronised, so every economy in the world was heading for …

IMF warns over parallels to Great Depression
April 17, 2009 – 11:36 am | No Comment

The International Monetary Fund has warned of “worrisome parallels” between the current global crisis and the Great Depression, despite the unprecedented steps already taken by central banks and governments worldwide.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/5166956/IMF-warns-over-parallels-to-Great-Depression.html
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Bloomberg: Fed Says Systemic Regulator Might Have Eased Crisis
April 15, 2009 – 10:00 am | No Comment

“Should a systemic regulator see a rapid rise in asset prices, Rosengren said, it would first investigate the cause, whether the increase was boosted by leverage and whether mismatches in funding long-term assets with short-term …