What Causes Trading Slumps?
It’s a situation all too familiar to traders and portfolio managers: After you’ve been seeing markets well and making good...
Do you consume information or does it consume you?
Why do you read this blog? What other media sources do you consume? If information were food, how healthy is your diet? If...
How the Bailouts Should Have Gone
I did a short interview with Rick Newman of US News on the state of Bailouts. Here is a quick excerpt: “The ideal bailout is not a...
Data Points to Ongoing Economic Woes
Despite the cheerleaders best efforts, the latest set of data to come out is filled with signs that the recovery — when it finally...
VIDEO: INTERVIEW WITH BARNEY FRANK
James Surowiecki spoke with Congressman Barney Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, about the current state of...
Global stock market performance roundup (thru 8.09)
Global stock market performance roundup (August 31, 2009) The performance of a number of global stock markets is given in the table below...
New Yorker The Current Cinema on “American Casino”
David Denby of the New Yorker wrote a favorable review of “American Casino,” a documentary about the financial bubble by...
Investing Like a Psychologist: Listening to Market Themes
Quick: What do great symphonies, great novels, financial markets, and the conversations of clients and therapists have in common?...
Q2 2009 Bank Stress Test Results: The Zombie Dance Party Rocks On
Here is the latest issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst for your reading pleasure. Chris Q2 2009 Bank Stress Test Results: The...
Personal Savings Rate
Improved savings rate? Not exactly. Mark Warywoda of Addenda-Capital.com up in Canada offers up some thoughts on why we should not read...