Myths of the Greenspan Era Barry Ritholtz 01/31/06 – 11:08 AM EST...
Free Lunch: Myths of the Greenspan Era
Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan’s imminent retirement has become the largest love-fest since Woodstock. Alas, we cannot avoid...
Chart of the Week: 10 year Treasury 1974-2006
Greenspan garners all the credit for the low interest rates of the past 20 years. We believe the chart below proves otherwise. The Oil...
Has the Fed Kept Inflation in Check?
Panzner answers no: click for larger graph Inflation has accellerated since the 1929 crash . . .
Danger time?
This week’s Economist pulls the gloves off and laces into Mr. G pretty good. In a pair of articles, they diussect the US economy,...
Read it here first: The World Isn’t Flat, but Its...
Earlier this week, we brought to your attention "A World of (mostly) Flattening Yield Curves." In the Sunday NYTimes today, Dan...
NFP & Operation Quicksilver
Today’s Non Farm Payrolls data is due at 8:30, and the consensus is for 215,000. (Why break the streak? I’ll take "the...
Fed Minutes
The Fed announced their plans today to “only invert the Yield Curve somewhat,” rather than the deeper and more extensive inversions...
A World of (mostly) Flattening Yield Curves
Lately, we’ve been discussing the Yield Curve, its flattening and inversion and how its different this time (not). This has...
Gold & The Wizard of Oz
Terrifically amusing take on Gold, via RaJa’s Jeff Saut: "We thought a lot about gold over the holiday as we watched “The...