Inflation? 7 yr auction solid
Rising inflation expectations did nothing to dissuade buyers of the Treasury’s 7 yr note auction as it was solid. The yield was...
Dodd-Frank Fixes “Too Big To Fail”
Rodge Cohen, partner and senior chairman at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, talks with Bloomberg Law’s Lee Pacchia about the...
Working Out Of Debt
Couple of interesting points from the report are: • Overall, the deleveraging process has only just begun. During the past two and a...
4 week avg in Claims fall to lowest since Mar ’08
Initial Jobless Claims for the week ended Feb 18th totaled 351k, 4k less than expected but the prior week was revised up by 3k to 351k....
Prices At The Pump On The Rise
Click to enlarge: The Chicago Tribune – Gas price spike pumping up fears Potential increase to record highs could slow economy,...
Abnormal Returns: There has never been a better time to be an...
Tadas Viskanta is the founder and editor of the finance blog Abnormal Returns. Tadas has over twenty years of professional experience in...
Macro Tides: In the Garden of Europe
Macro Factors and their impact on Monetary Policy, the Economy, and Financial Markets MacroTides.newsletter@gmail.com Investment letter...
Tired markets?/gasoline prices jump again
Signs continue that European markets are getting tired. The Spanish and Italian stock markets, big beneficiaries of the sharp decline in...
Dead Sea Salt Formations
Click to enlarge: ˜˜˜ ˜˜˜ ˜˜˜ ˜˜˜ ˜˜˜ Source: Dead Sea Salt Formations by BoingBoing
What Do Private Equity Firms Actually Do?
Are private-equity firms job-destroying monsters? Or are they knights in shining armor, riding in to fix troubled companies and make the...