Ease of Doing Business by Country
Pretty cool table, via doingbusiness.org looking at how easy or hard it is to do a variety of business functions in different countries...
Market Cheat Sheet: Responding to new data
This is circulating via email around trading desks: > Cheat sheet: reacting to data and market releases weak data = Fed ease,...
Money Supply Growth: 24.3%!
Numerous people have written, asking about how much liquidity is really in the financial system. I suspect the underlying cause of this...
Blade Runner: The Final Cut at the Ziegfeld
I am going this evening to see my favorite sci-fi movie at my favorite movie theater with my favorite movie buddy. I’ll update this...
Intraday Reversal
Markets have reversed, from up over 115 on the Dow to flat to down 50. There’s still 90 minutes to go until the close, so anything...
Buy a Miami Condo by the Inch
Here’s a clever if desperate way to sell a condo: "Believe it or not I am going to try to sell my condo one square inch at a...
The United States of Subprime
Yesterday, the National Association of Realtors cheerfully forecast that Improvements in Mortgage Markets Bodes Well for Housing in 2008....
Open Thread: Resilient Markets, Accomodative Fed?
As bad as the markets looked today — and at times, there was some heavy selling — the word that kept coming back to me was...
The US Dollar/iPod Index
This is an amusing way to look at the US Dollar: How much iPod nano does the US dollar buy around the world? Just over 20 years ago, The...