Tightening: Coming to a Central Bank Near You ?
Is the Fed more likely to tighten than traders are anticipating? That’s the suggestion made by a Bloomberg column this evening:...
Roubini, Achuthan & Albertson on Crisis Economics
Insight on the volatility in the marketplace, with Nouriel Roubini, RGEMonitor.com; Lakshman Achuthan, Economic Cycle Research Institute;...
Internet Explorer < 60% Market Share
Wow, this is a surprise: Net Applications is reporting that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer dropped to a historic market share low in...
NYSE Volume/euro giving back most of its gains
With 3 hours to go in afternoon trading, consolidated NYSE volume is on track with Wednesday’s volume run rate of 6.7b shares, well...
Oil Slickonomics (Part II)
David R. Kotok, Cumberland Advisors May 10, 2010 In “Oil Slickonomics”, part 1, we set forth three scenarios for the BP disaster....
Luskin: Sell Equities, Buy Gold
On Friday, the one man contrary indicator announced — AFTER the equity market collapse, AFTER a huge spike in gold — that it...
Media Appearance: Bloomberg TV (5/10/10)
> This afternoon, I’m on Bloomberg TV, between 2pm and 2:45pm discussing the market crash, whether HFT was to blame, and the SEC...
The Evolution of Facebook’s Privacy Policy
This is pretty amusing, via Matt McKeon: click for animation
EU Bailout
The lead in this morning’s paper WSJ provides all necessary guidance for global wealth holders: “The European Union agreed on an...
Mortgages: Walking Away
It’s estimated that one million Americans walked away from homes “underwater” or worth less than their mortgages even...