Saturday, June 30, 2007

Panzner: data opacity - fear of the financial truth?

The Federal Reserve stopped publishing its M3 data (the widest definition of the money supply) from 23 March 2006, and this occasioned much suspicious comment.

Now, in two posts on his Financial Armageddon website (27 and 29 June), Michael Panzner writes about the lack of transparency in the Bear Stearns sub-prime mortgage debacle, and the failure of credit rating agencies to downgrade Bear Stearns bonds.

It always looks bad if the doctor won't tell you how you're doing.

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