Oh no!!, say it ain’t so. I’d really miss the little chap…….

David Smith at economicsuk.com

–’Recently We Haven’t Been Talking Exit’ By Ian McKendry CHICAGO (MNI) – Recent economic data has shown the U.S. economy is improving, but the Federal Reserve is still not talking exit strategy while at the same time not planning to deploy more quantitative easing, St. Louis Federal Reserve Pres. James Bullard said Saturday. Answering questions [...]

By Steven K. Beckner (MNI) – Rampant home foreclosures — elevated by high unemployment – are slowing the recovery in the housing market and the general economy, and “shoddy” mortgage servicing practices that aggravate the problem must be confronted with vigorous enforcement action, Federal Reserve Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin said Saturday. Continuing a Fed full [...]

By Ian McKendry CHICAGO (MNI) – Incumbent President Barack Obama is likely to come up short in the 2012 elections according IHS Global Insight, an economics firm that specializes in forecasting. Sara Johnson, a senior research director at IHS, said the firm runs an econometric election model every four years predicting the outcome of the [...]

Zerohedge.    Harsh

Telegraph article

Reuters article.