John Oliver on Guardianship
It’s alarmingly easy for a total stranger to gain total control over the life of a senior citizen. We enlisted a group of celebrities...
Adventures in Behavioral Finance, Points Edition
I had an interesting discussion yesterday with Bill Sweet, our CFO. Given my interest in all things behavioral economics, it is worth...
Jim Millstein: Lessons from the Financial Crisis
Jim Millstein left Lazard to become the US Treasury’s Chief Restructuring Officer, a job that involved restructuring AIG, the insurer...
Dealer Trading and Positioning in Floating Rate Notes
by Michael Fleming and Amanda Wahlers In January 2014, the U.S. Treasury Department made its first sale of floating rate notes (FRNs),...
What is your Value Add ?
Last year, I wrote a brief explanation as to why there are so many people in my firm who write. Why we do what we do explains the...
Bernanke, Geithner & Paulson on the 2008 financial crisis
This is pretty amazing: The three men who helped shepherd the U.S. through the 2008 Great Recession are worried that the...
Worldwide Remittance Flows
click for ginormous graphic Source: Pew Research Center This is kinda intriguing: You can track the flows of remittances...
Dirty Money
From the creators of Enron and Going Clear comes an all-new Netflix Original Documentary Series exposing the greed, corruption, and crime...
Concealed Ownership of 86,000 UK Properties
click for interactive graphic Source: Quartz Transparency continues to be a problem in the UK real estate sector, where the number...
2018: The Year of the Bank of Amazon?
For the financial technology industry, 2017 will be defined as the year that the threat of tech giants grew stronger, artificial...