Greenspan the “Ex-Maestro”
Krugman gives us our QOTD: “Greenspan is an ex-Maestro; his reputation is pushing up the daisies, it’s gone to meet its maker,...
Trichet doesn’t back down
ECB Pres Trichet speaking in Brussels is basically clinching an April 7th rate hike by repeating that risks to their price outlook are to...
Ignorance and Opportunity
Frederick Sheehan is the co-author of Greenspan’s Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance at the Federal Reserve. His new book, Panderer for...
Macke: Human Misery = Trading Ideas
Jeff Macke on the unseemly reality of Wall St reactions to disasters:
Risk On/Risk Off Trade Returns
“We are just plagued today with the lack of long-term trends, and it’s because of people reacting to the issues of the day....
Game Changer
This week we look at another except from Ed Easterling’s gonzo book on stock market return projections, called Probable Outcomes. This...
‘Hit and run’ in Libya, ‘light at end of...
Instead of ‘shock and awe’, it seems what we’re seeing in Libya is more ‘hit and run.’ I say this because...
Earthquake/Nuclear Accident Warnings Ignored by Japan
“In the 40 years that Japan had been building nuclear plants, seismic activity was, fortunately or unfortunately, relatively quiet....
No News is Good News . . .
click for updated futures > We managed to make it through the weekend without a meltdown of other nuclear catastrophe. Asian markets...
Job Well Done: Neil Barofsky, TARP Watchdog
Check out Gretchen Morgenson’s column in the Sunday Times: “The American taxpayer will lose a rare straight shooter when Neil...