I love this: click for complete 22 panel comic Source: The Oatmeal
Are Markets Efficient?
Do market prices generally reflect all available information? Or are they prone to bubbles? On this episode of The Big Question, two...
The Counterfactual on QE
Why We’re Still Arguing Whether QE Worked It’s hard to know what works in economics. But policy experiments in the states...
The Unofficial Pundit to English Translation Guide
Here’s What Financial Pundits Mean When They Say… There’s a lot of time to fill. Hot air often does the job. Bloomberg,...
We Are Living in a “Post-Factual Democracy”
Give it up for Wordspy‘s impeccable timing: A democracy in which ignorance and irrationality hold sway over facts and...
Americans Give A Billion Dollars a Day to Charities
This is really a fascinating datapoint, via the Consumerist: “According to a report released today by the Giving USA Foundation,...
Save the Date! EBI Conference NYC November 15, 2016
Right after the financial crisis, we threw our first conference. It was a modestly successful event, one that we built on over the years....
10 Good Beach Reads, Just in Time for Memorial Day
Memorial Day weekend is fast approaching. If you are anything like me, you are probably looking forward to delving into several new and...