Greg Valliere: Europe Crisis Has `Months to Go’

Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) — Greg Valliere, chief political strategist at the Potomac Research Group, talks about the European sovereign-debt crisis and the outlook for the congressional budget-reduction supercommittee. Valliere speaks on Bloomberg Television’s “InBusiness With Margaret Brennan.” (Source: Bloomberg)

Vanguard’s Jonathan Lemco: The ECB is central to rebuilding that confidence, and one way to start would be to start buying the debt of peripheral countries in the secondary markets – despite German opposition.

Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) — Jonathan Lemco, a sovereign credit analyst at Vanguard Group Inc., talks about Europe’s debt crisis. He speaks on Bloomberg Television’s “InBusiness With Margaret Brennan.” (Source: Bloomberg)

World Bank’s Zoellick on U.S. Economy, Europe

Sept. 20 (Bloomberg) — World Bank President Robert Zoellick talks about the outlook for the U.S. economy, the European debt crisis and signs of its impact on the global economy and markets. Zoellick speaks on Bloomberg Television’s “InBusiness with Margaret Brennan.” (Source: Bloomberg)

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U.S. in Debt Crisis Without Spending Cuts, Pimco’s Kashkari Says

From bloomberg:

The U.S. may face a debt crisis without action to limit federal spending, according to Neel Kashkari, a former Treasury official who headed the taxpayer- funded $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program.

“Our debt is now starting to get away from us,” Kashkari, a managing director at Pacific Investment Management Co., said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “InBusiness” with Margaret Brennan. “Indicators in the Treasury market are flashing [...]

Daily highlights: 12/16/2010 – Bank of Japan Buys Stocks to Lift Asset Prices

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1) Spain sells bonds at higher rates after Moody’s warning

“Spain raised 2.4 billion euros (3.2 billion dollars) in a bond sale Thursday but it had to pay higher rates on the debt a day after Moody’s threatened to downgrade the country’s credit rating.

The treasury sold 1.782 billion euros of 10-year bonds at an average yield — the rate of return paid to the holder — of [...]

Here’s an interesting tweet from Margaret Brennan. Do not think that’s priced into the market.

The Federal Reserve may not complete the full $600 billion of securities purchases it announced last week to stimulate the economy, said Stanford University economist John B. Taylor.

“It’s a real possibility” the central bank will stop before completing the purchases it plans to make through June, Taylor said in an interview today on Bloomberg Television’s “InBusiness with Margaret Brennan.”

“I hope so. They left themselves some wiggle room,” he said. Though [...]