Week Ahead
Asia’s Week Ahead: Data and Results in Focus Japan will release a spate of economic data with the central bank expected to leave...
More Fun With (Quietly Revised) Numbers
Last week I pointed out a somewhat mysterious, undated entry (turned out to be Nov. 24, 2009) at the website of the...
Who Controls Congress? Neither Party
It doesn’t matter which party gets elected if the same Corporate interests control Congress: Hat tip Start a Third Party Now
‘Quants,’ The Math Whizzes Behind the Crisis
A small group of brainy math whizzes are emerging as the unlikely group who nearly brought down the finance industry. As WSJ’s...
“Facts Plain to Any Dispassionate Eye”
Funny how these things work: In a rant Friday morning, I wrote: “Regular readers know that I despise political parties, believe...
Why Paul Volcker is (once again) The Man
“I think we’d all be doing a lot better if somebody like you was in there.” –Ron Paul to Paul Volcker > Quite the...
What Balanced Market Reporting Looks Like
Someone sent me an FT headline to show me that my WSJ post “misses the mark.” To demonstrate that it wasn’t just the...
Olbermann on Supreme Court Campaign Finance
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How to Survive Natural Disasters
What took place in Haiti might make you want to stop and ask: if there was a natural disaster in my home, would I know what to do? Would...