Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
Michael Martin is a proprietary commodity trader. He is a commodity instructor for the CFA Institute and a frequent lecturer on risk...
Bernanke Says Recession Over; Should You Care?
Ben Bernanke has declared the recession over. This leads to one simple question: Why should you care what his recession forecasts are?...
Everyone Has a Stock Market Forecast
Good Evening: This may sound like a recording, but stocks overcame another early dip to again finish higher on Tuesday. At least the...
Rally May Only in 6th Inning ?
My interview about the market with Aaron Task at Yahoo Tech Ticker is up at their site: Rally May Only Be in 6th or 7th Inning, Ritholtz...
Devil’s Dictionary: Wall Street Edition
Amusing take on Ambrose Bierce’s classic in the Journal today. Excerpt: AAA, n., obsolete. A rhetorical device used to dupe buyers...
Why capitalism fails
Terrific piece in the Boston Globe by professor Stephen Mihm on Hyman Minsky: “Amid the hand-wringing and the self-flagellation, a...
Penury, self-imposed or inflicted, the new normal?
One of my favorite sources of information is The Liscio Report by Philippa Dunne & Doug Henwood. Among other things, each month they...
Meritocracy on Wall Street
Nice piece from Andy Kessler on the Meritocracy on Wall Street: “Part of the charm of Wall Street, and what scares most reasonable...
Ex-Lehman CFO: Thought Gov’t Would Rescue Us
A Lehman Video 2 fer: Former Lehman Employees Jack Malvey, Brad Hintz, and Lola Campbell on Lehman’s collapse. Watch the latest...