Never Tempt the Market Gods…
@TBPInvictus here: Dow just crashes through 25,000. Congrats! Big cuts in unnecessary regulations continuing. — Donald J. Trump...
The Pension Gamble
“The Pension Gamble” goes inside the volatile fight over pensions that’s playing out in one state, and examines the broader...
BBRG: Never Ask an Inflation Hawk to Do a Dove’s Job
Never Ask an Inflation Hawk to Do a Dove’s Job Trump whines that his hand-picked Fed chief is raising rates too fast. He never should...
Take California
Trump Models U.S. Economy on Kansas. That’s a Mistake The better choice is one of his favorite whipping boys, California, which has a...
Skate away, that’s all
I am intrigued by the idea of this — but I know I would invest my money not in what makes the most financial sense, but as...
BBRG: Trump Models U.S. Economy on Kansas. That’s a Mistake
Trump Models U.S. Economy on Kansas. That’s a Mistake The better choice is one of his favorite whipping boys, California, which has a...
Before the GFC There was LTCM . . .
We Forget That the Financial Crisis Had a Trial Run The collapse of hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management had the same ingredients:...
Voter Turnout in USA
With 3 weeks to go before the midterm elections, I wanted to take a look at some interesting data points: We think of elections as being...
John Oliver on Saudi Arabia
Following the alarming disappearance of a Saudi journalist and political dissident, John Oliver examines America’s uncomfortably...
MIB: Misinformation & the Overton Window
What range of ideas are tolerated in public discourse? How and why do previously forbidden ideas and behavior that were once verboten,...