What is this a story of? Bloomberg’s headline:
JPMorgan Trader’s Positions Said to Distort Credit Indexes Read more
Easter service announcement… FT Alphaville’s open during New York hours on Monday, though posting will be light to non-existent in Europe time. Because you’re all on holiday over there!
To tide you over until then, here are some posts of ours that you might have missed this week, plus an extended edition of Further Reading… Read more
Just one month, lots of statistical noise in this series, will be revised later, etc…
Caveats aside, the headline payroll number of 120,000 jobs in March is obviously a disappointment. The unemployment rate dropped a tenth of a percentage point to 8.2 per cent. Read more
1Time to take basic income seriously?
2We cannae give the economy no more, we're giv'n it all we've got Captain
3The case for official e-money +1
4On what really is different this time around
5Hacking and property prices make the BoE big league
Show more6Tax needn't be taxing. It can also be a Hungarian debt wheeze
7"Companies should know who really owns them..."
8The central bank (communications) bubble
9When liquidity meets control in China [updated with credit crunch probability]
10The end of the end of the end of the commodities supercycle is nigh, in Asia
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