QOTD: Bastiat on Plunder
Fantastic quote from Bastiat: “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society, they create for themselves,...
TDS: I Can’t Believe It Got Better!
America’s economic recovery is good news, unless you work for a media organization whose job it is to make sure Barack Obama...
10 Mid-Week PM Reads
My afternoon train reading: • Trade of the Year? (The Reformed Broker) • Top 10 Hedge Funds By Net Gains Since Inception (Market...
Miserable Wants Company
Frederick Sheehan is the co-author of Greenspan’s Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance at the Federal Reserve. His new book, Panderer for...
After ECB and Bernanke, BoE member says ‘no mas’
After getting hammered since Bernanke mentioned the improving labor market and the ECB is now done with LTRO’s (for now), gold is...
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve and Oil Prices
Click to enlarge: The Financial Times – Obama pressed to open emergency oil stocks The Obama administration is coming under growing...
Bloomberg Robosigning Discussion
You can stream Bloomberg Radio live by clicking below: > I am off to Bloomberg TV to discuss my Washington Post column on Robo-signing...
Household Deleveraging Slows Recovery
Click to enlarge: Source: Bloomberg BRIEFs Economic Newspaper February 28, 2012 > Why has the recovery been so weak? The short answer...
Bernanke speaks
“The recovery of the US economy continues, but the pace of expansion has been uneven and modest by historical standards,” is...