One of the things I try to do with the site is maintain a high level of discourse between myself and the readers. As the traffic to the...
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Peter Bernstein, author of such books as Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, has an interesting piece in the Sunday NYT,...
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Click for video Stiglitz Says Credit Woes May Get Worse Before Improving Stiglitz Says Banks Too Optimistic About End...
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My pal James Pethokoukis is a 2002 Jeopardy! champion — so I don’t lightly challenge his knowledge of either the esoteric...
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America may well be only halfway through the house-price bust; so says this week’s Economist: Mr Bernanke’s maps use figures...
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Every now and again, CNBC puts on a superlative show. Friday morning’s Squawk Box was one of those times when they hit the...
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Today’s quote is from a clever commenter in our W/H discussion last week: "With the enemy’s approach to Moscow, the...
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My friend Paul points to this report by Factset, titled: An oil bubble to rival the internet boom. The difficulty with the bubble...
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This is the very first evidence I have seen that we might be near the bottom in housing. No, not the chart above — this:> It’s...
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>"The commodity looks like it has legs, which is trader talk for its going higher. While I do not make a habit of forecasting...
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