Could the Fed Have Saved Lehman?
Let’s Put the Lehman Bailout Debate to Rest Rescuing the securities firm wouldn’t have mattered. The financial crisis was...
John Oliver: Republican National Convention
John Oliver discusses last week’s unsurprisingly surprising Republican convention. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:...
Why Are We Paying CEOs for How Well the Stock Market Does?
CEOs Are Paid Fortunes Just to Be Average Executives who deliver market-matching results should be compensated as if they were low-cost...
Fact-checking 2016 Presidential Candidates
This is astonishing: Over at Michael Sandberg’s Data Visualization Blog, Robert Mann did the heavy lifting of presenting all of...
What Did You Learn From Brexit?
My Sunday Washington Post Business Section column is out. This morning, we look at how investors behaved surrounding the...
Announcing Three New Speakers at the EBI Conference!
I previously mentioned that on November 15th in NYC, we’re hosting the first ever Evidence Based Investing conference with our...
The Theranos Story (as told in Cartoons)
This 8 part NPR graphic — below is only a small part of it — is totally awesome: click for complete cartoon Via NPR...
Brexit Primary Contagion Channel
This is really fascinating: click for ginormous graphic Source: Deutsche Bank
Learning from Brexit
The day we learned that the UK had voted slightly in favor of “Leave,” I wrote a column discussing Eight Things to Know...
How Fast is CEO Compensation Rising?
CEO compensation is growing faster than the wages of the top 0.1 percent and the stock market. This is a rather amazing chart: ...