Baltimore Bridge Collapses, Rescue Efforts Underway

UK Only Article: standard article Fly Title: From the archives Rubric: Why mortgage subsidies are a bad idea IN THIS week’s print edition, we explore how mortgage subsidies have encouraged banks to lend more to homeowners and less to firms, with pernicious economic consequences. The Economist has long been a …

by Joseph Joyce To fix or not to fix: Jeffry Frieden’s “Currency Politics” The decision by the Swiss National Bank to abandon its peg to the euro serves as an example of the relatively limited life spans of fixed exchange rate regimes. While the fragility of exchange rate commitments has …

Boy this is fun! ; It sure is fun for those of us getting in and out of our Futures trades as the lines have been fairly reliable in the channels as we make lower lows and lower highs on the way down, with plenty of up and down action in…