Nationalized banks?

During the credit crisis, we argued that temporary nationalization would be the best option to deal with financial institutions gone wild. Turns out we might have been to moderate..

Morgan Stanley on InterOil April 15

Very interesting stuff, as usual..

The weekly charts

Rally continuing?

Greece’s Catch-22 situation, is there any easy way out?

Reducing its debt needs inflation, restoring its lost competitiveness needs deflation. Greece is toast and should consider leaving the euro…

From the trenches: Amsterdam is a really wonderful city…

Outside one of it’s main bookshops women gathered in short skirts in an original flash mob in honour of a writer (Martin Bril) who died at 49 last year.