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Articles dealing with the global economy.

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National flow of funds accounts: Japan

Bank of Japan, Tokyo

The Bank of Japan publishes quarterly statistics on Japanese national flow of funds accounts in Excel format, in English, on their website.

The flow of funds accounts is a matrix showing financial transactions among various economic entities, and corresponding stock data on financial claims and liabilities of them.

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UN SNA: Not ready for prime time

UN SNA: A product of the United Nations

In 1993, after thousands of hours of committee work by economists and bureaucrats from all nations, the United Nations, with the blessing of the International Monetary Fund, issued a recommendation for a System of National Accounts (known as SNA 1993).

Compared to the Federal Reserve National Flow of Funds Accounts, the United Nations SNA 1993 is not a product that is ready for prime time.

World Economy

What is ‘international liquidity’?

Hotel Mount Washington, Bretton Woods, 1944

It used to be that the term ‘international liquidity’ meant the relative amount of resources available to a nation’s monetary authorities that could be used to settle a balance of payments deficit. In the days of the gold standard, this would mean access to gold that could be used to redeem a nation’s currency held by foreigners.

After Bretton Woods and the advent of the dollar-gold exchange standard, liquidity came to mean access to dollars, either held as reserves or as credit lines, or the SDR system maintained by the International Monetary Fund.

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Stock buybacks

Buybacks + options + hedge funds

Stock buyback programs are a legalized form of market manipulation, sanctioned under SEC Rule 10b-18 and that serve to drive up the price of a company's stock and to give false value to executive stock options.
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Securities Analysis

Are investors being misled?

Mutual funds are sold primarily on the basis of 'performance' measured by historical 'total return'.The famous Morningstar 'star' rating system is based on 'total return', in this case 'risk-adjusted total return' relative to funds of the same asset category.
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US Politics

The decline of mainstream media

In September 2009, President Obama dominated television in his attempt to sell his government-run health plan, despite massive public opposition. Mainstream media has falling revenues and market share as people turn to unbiased sources. More ...

US equities

GAO pooh-poohs a Boomer bust

In 2006, the GAO issued a report saying that the retirement of the Baby Boomers should not have a negative effect on stock prices. This article reviews the GAO reasoning and concludes that the conclusion is not credible. More ...

US Bonds

The collapse of the dollar and US bonds?

The extreme spending of the Obama government, combined with irresponsible bank lending policies promoted by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, portend rising interest rates, the collapse of the bond market, and the end of dollar supremacy. More ...

World Economy

Signs of US losing its groove?

Thirty years ago, US income from abroad was more than double the amount of income that the US paid to the rest of the world. This year, or the next, this foreign income surplus may disappear forever. Is the US 'losing its groove'? More ...

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