Dynamite Prize in Economics
I love this: The Dynamite Prize in Economics is to be awarded to the three economists who contributed most to enabling the Global...
How Often Should We Expect a Financial Crisis?
In a recent WSJ OpEd, Elizabeth Warren chairman of the TARP Congressional Oversight Panel, states “J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon...
We Are All Austrians Now
Paul Brodsky & Lee Quaintance run QB Partners, a private macro-oriented investment fund based in New York. ~~~ We Are All Austrians...
Retail Sales a touch above expectations
Jan Retail Sales rose .5% m/o/m headline, .6% ex auto’s and .6% ex auto’s and gasoline. All are a touch above estimates in...
How “Quant” Trading Triggered the Credit Crisis
Yahoo: Greedy CEOs, bad regulators, short sellers, debt-happy Americans, and politicians of all stripes have been blamed for the great...
One fire out, for now, but another flares up again
Just as one fire has been put out for now (Greece), the one that originally caused jitters in the markets in mid Jan, China, now flares...
How is Toyota Like Citigroup & Goldman Sachs?
It turns out that Banks aren’t the only entities who have managed to corrupt the political process and end up hurting themselves...
China Tightens; Futures Sell Off
China ordered banks to hold greater reserves in lending in an effort to cool off their fast growing economy surging real estate prices. ...
Wall Street Journal Forecasting Survey (Whoopee)
Their mediocre track record not withstanding, it seems you just cannot stop the economic crowd from making forecasts. The WSJ has the...