How Do They Live With Themselves?
Every once in a while, you see some odd stuff in this business. Thanks to the internet, and my being a member or participant in...
The Autumn of Quantitative Easing
As the Fed begins to unwind it's $4.23 trillion hoard of debt, accumulated under its QE programs (about $2.45T in Notes, TIPS and...
Twilight of the Labor Union Era
“The anxieties of the present are rooted in nostalgia for the past.” - Conor Sen “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a...
Sleepless Over Sub Prime
As we saw with the hysteria over rising credit card balances a couple of weeks ago, we have a new media inspired crisis shaping up in the...
Not Enough Inflation? Be Grateful.
As Fed followers know, they have been trying to induce a measure of inflation into the economy, and like the well worn metaphor of Lucy...
The Automation Jobless
Not Fired, Just Not Hired THE rise in unemployment has raised some new alarms around an old scare word: automation. How much has the...