Links 2/16/2022 | naked capitalism
[ad_1] How to heal animals themselves ? and get high Deutsche Welle 4-story rogue wave that randomly appeared in the Pacific Ocean is the ‘most extreme’ ever detected Live Science The looming threat of long financial Covid FT Global Cooperation on Digital Governance and the Geoeconomics of New Technologies in a Multi-polar World Centre for […]
Emerging market debt: high yields could climb even higher yet
[ad_1] While emerging market equities have trailed their developed brethren for more than a decade, high-yielding EM bonds have done much better. They have consistently attracted yield-seeking foreign funds. Now a global bond sell-off has shaken investors’ confidence. Rightly so, because risks are greater than in the past. Foreigners hold more emerging market bonds today […]
SEC Investigating Possible Block Trading Abuses at Morgan Stanley, Goldman, Other Big Players
[ad_1] To be clear, the SEC waking up and poking its nose into possible block trading abuses at major Wall Street firms is no where near as important, in terms of the potential to produce significant changes, than its proposed rule changes to greatly increase transparency in private equity. However, this development is significant for […]
Argentina’s president struggles to sell IMF deal to a sceptical Congress
[ad_1] Argentina’s agreement with the IMF to restructure $44.5bn in debt is being threatened by a rupture within the government’s own ranks just weeks ahead of a looming deadline for finalising the deal. President Alberto Fernández is lobbying lawmakers from his own leftwing coalition to try and win support for an outline deal, which requires […]
New Study Explain How Coronavirus Stays Airborne Longer Than Previously Thought
[ad_1] At the risk of stepping on Lambert’s toes, since he’s been relentless in covering the considerable, successful efforts by scientists to have aerosols recognized as a means of Covid transmission, some new studies shed more light on how this happens. And by extension, they offer support for the notion that Covid stays airborne much […]
UK inflation picks up to highest rate since 1992
[ad_1] UK inflation has accelerated to the highest rate in 30 years, squeezing living standards and putting pressure on the Bank of England to raise interest rates again. Consumer prices rose at an annual rate of 5.5 per cent last month, up from 5.4 per cent in December and well above the 0.7 per cent […]
Rent inflation will stick | Financial Times
[ad_1] This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday Good morning. Markets sniffed peace in the Ukraine today, and rose. We hope they are right, but we suspect the rollercoaster ride ain’t over yet. Email us: [email protected] and [email protected]. […]
FirstFT: Top finance watchdog warns west over Russia sanctions
[ad_1] Good morning. This article is an on-site version of our FirstFT newsletter. Sign up to our Asia, Europe/Africa or Americas edition to get it sent straight to your inbox every weekday morning The chair of the world’s most powerful financial watchdog has called on western leaders to “think twice” before imposing sanctions on Russia, […]
This Doctor Thought She Could Navigate US Health Care. Then Her Autistic Son Needed Help.
[ad_1] Yves here. It seems noteworthy that NPR, which also republished this Kaiser Health News article, used a markedly different spin in its headline: “Kids with autism struggle to adapt to adulthood. One doctor is trying to change that.” God forbid the press highlight failings in our best of all possible worlds health care system. […]
Top finance watchdog urges west to ‘think twice’ about Russia sanctions
[ad_1] The chair of the world’s most powerful financial watchdog has called on global leaders to “think twice” before imposing crippling sanctions on Russia, warning that the most punishing penalties run the risk of undermining global financial stability. Klaas Knot, chair of the Financial Stability Board, told the Financial Times that suspending Russia’s access to […]
East-west divergence in central bank action will not last much longer
[ad_1] The writer is chief economist for Asia Pacific at Natixis and a senior research fellow at think-tank Bruegel The past few months have been characterised by an increasing divergence in monetary policy between big central banks in the west and those in Asia. Pushed by higher inflation than expected, the US Federal Reserve has […]
ECB ‘cannot ignore’ house price surge in inflation assessment, says executive
[ad_1] The European Central Bank must consider the “unprecedented” rise in house prices when assessing the high level of inflation and deciding how fast to tighten monetary policy, said one of its senior executives. In the most “hawkish” comments by an ECB executive board member ahead of next month’s meeting at which it will decide […]