Investor Worry: Consumer Spending and US Businesses
Citigroup’s Nathan Sheets and Fusion IQ’s Barry Ritholtz speak with Bloomberg’s Matt Miller about the concerns that...
Computers Are Taking Over Wall Street
The New York Times – Frankenstein Takes Over the Market This week, yet another Wall Street firm most people have never heard of,...
TARP Cop Neil Barofsky on Drug Lords & Mortgage Fraud
TARP cop Neil Barofsky, appointed by President Bush and retained by President Obama to prevent fraud in the nearly-trillion-dollar...
August Presidential Polls vs. Final Vote Count
It’s August and time to start thinking about the Presidential election though nothing really matters until after Labor Day, in our...
Media Appearance: Bloomberg Rewind 8:00pm 8.7.12
Tonight I will be co-hosting Bloomberg TV’s Rewind with Matt Miller. (Rewind airs at 8pm on Bloomberg TV, 10pm on Sirius/XM Channel...
Bank Trading and Derivatives Activities
The amount of derivative exposure continues to dazzle and amaze (You can see the full report here: OCC’s Quarterly Report): ...
Italian Crisis Monitor
Italy, Europe’s third-largest economy, has contracted for 11 quarters since 2007. GDP fell 0.7 percent in the second quarter of...
10 Tuesday AM Reads
My morning reads: • The Superstitious Fund Project (A Superstitious Fund) • Jeffrey Frankel on the “Procyclicalists”:...
German June factory orders slump
The Australian Central Bank, the RBA held rates at 3.5%, citing a stronger domestic economy, though was dovish on inflation. The A$ is at...