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War Games By Grant Williams January 29, 2013 The Asian currency crisis of 1997 contained the seeds of an East vs. West...

“Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.” -Oliver Wendall Holmes, Jr. Associate Justice of US Supreme...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman of Princeton University talks about U.S. fiscal policy, Federal Reserve monetary policy and...

A National Bureau of Economic working paper, using advancements in textual analysis, attempts to identify whether news moves stock...

Source: WSJ

My afternoon train reading: • Bridgewater’s Dalio: ‘Game Changer’ as Money Shifts (Bloomberg) • The great ETF mega-war...

Hey, that title looks familiar! The graphic, however, is terrific: click for larger graphic Source: Six ways our...

November 2012 Case-Shiller Home Price Indices showed home prices rose 4.5% for the 10-City Composite and 5.5% for the 20-City Composite...

My morning reads: • “We exaggerate the risks beyond our control, & underestimate the risks we can control” (NYT) • UK...

Australian December business confidence surged to +3, from -9 in November, the largest improvement since October 2001. The lowest...