Economic data
Aug New Home sales, a measure of contract signings now 4 months removed from the home buying tax credit, was 7k units below expectations...
Keynes = Passé
Apropos of our earlier Volcker discussion, consider this classic an indictment of the Business Schools Tall Paul referenced: > Via...
The New Consumer Watchdog
Insight on her appointment to the new consumer protection agency, with Elizabeth Warren, assistant to President Obama. She seems so...
Decoupling?
I’ve been talking about the rise in commodity prices for a while now (CRB raw industrials sub index was up yesterday for the 8th...
OUR ROPE-A-DOPE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM
Peter T Treadway, PhD Historical Analytics LLC www.thedismaloptimist.com September 23, 2010 > The legendary Muhammad Ali developed a...
Volcker: Financial System Still at Risk
“Normal distribution curves — if I would submit to you — do not exist in financial markets. Its not that they are fat tails,...
CrowdQuery: After Blockbuster, Whose Bankruptcy is Next?
Some years ago when I was on the sellside, I would occasionally got dragged into these banking meetings to discuss funding new and...
Pop-Quiz: Terms of Trade
Cassandra Does Tokyo is a former hedge fund manager and ex NY Trader, who is now living abroad. ~~~ Terminology is important but often...