Yesterday no one cared, today they do
Yesterday, not many cared about the weak economic data in China (retail sales and IP) but today they do and it highlights the daily tug...
Bianco on Treasuries, Gold, Investment Strategy
James Bianco, president of Bianco Research LLC, talks about the outlook for Treasuries and gold prices. Bianco, speaking with Tom Keene,...
Earnings vs. Stock Returns
MarketWatch – Good news: Earnings growth is slowing Worried that lower earnings growth will lead to a bear market? You’re not alone....
Upside of Wall St. Failures? Nothing
“The truth may instead be that the finance industry not only has fewer missteps than the rest of corporate America, but that...
Universe Fly-Through
Nearly 400,000 galaxies are represented in an animation derived from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data release 7. Miguel Arago and...
Happy Fifth Birthday, Financial Crisis
WSJ’s Matt Phillips stops by Mean Street to mark five years since the global credit crunch which sent the global economy into a...
Stunning Crimes of the Big Banks
Worse than Your Wildest Imagination ~~~ Preface: Not all banks are criminal enterprises. The wrongdoing of a particular bank cannot...
Justice Department Won’t Prosecute Goldman. Discuss
*JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CONCLUDES GOLDMAN SACHS PROBE :GS US *JUSTICE DEPT. WON’T PROSECUTE GOLDMAN SACHS, EMPLOYEES: AP *JUSTICE FINDS NO...
10 Thursday PM Reads
My afternoon train reads: • Lessons from Sweden in Assembling a Recovery (Economonitor) • Cognitive researchers find truth in...