Economics headlines

October 9, 2009 1:25pm

34 banks, including AIG and CIT, miss their TARP payments – naked capitalism

Consumers deleveraging (1) Revolving credit balances down, but outstanding payments up – Felix Salmon

Consumers deleveraging (2) Non-revolving credit is up – naked capitalism

And, er, the US starts testing its exit strategy – FT

Dollar up on Asian central bank purchases and Bernanke comments – FT Money Supply

Financial stability: Britain worse than Nigeria, Panama and Bangladesh  – Times

Venezuela plans to raise dollar-denominated debt – FT

Inaugural world SWF meeting ends today, report out next week – Macroscope