This week on FT Alphaville,
- Europe’s Greek-out! took one look at a hard restructure…
- …And chose (for now) the soft way out.
- The IMF worried what all this meant for Europe’s core.
- Michael Cembalest turned US subprime-revisionist.
- Andrew Haldane found — shock horror — markets to be myopic.
- It was all Greek (restructuring) to Roubini.
- We asked, why care about flatlining money funds?
- Spain happily PowerPointed away its property problems.
- We eyed the buyout barons of the BRICs.
- The gasoline crack looked like an unstoppable force.
- That is, until it met some irresistible algorithms.
- Fallout came in margin calls, plus quirky fundamentals.
- (While SuperGroup super-drooped.)
- UBS looked forward to the next commods crisis.
- Moody’s did a hipotecaria hiccup.
- Long dated muni bonds are not behaving.
- And Greece ended the week Argentine.
- Finally, we fled to the real start of the crisis — ten years back.