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...
Our Misplaced Obsession With Interest Rates
A Bloomberg View piece written by former Fed Governor Narayana Kocherlakota, titled, "The Fed Shouldn't Be Afraid of Growth" caught my...
Index Funds: Are We All Bozos On This Bus?
Ever notice a disturbing trend that you see going on unimpeded, while no one thinks anything is out of the ordinary, or could lead to a...
Finally, Lower Bail For Bonds
It only took a few decades, but at long last, price transparency is coming to the bond market. You see, for years, if you bought a stock,...
About Those "Bad Trade Deals"- Part II
As regular readers know, I've been wondering about the "why now?" phenomenon as the country wrings its hands over the loss of...
Physical Retail's Long Shadow
An article I posted on my LinkedIn timeline from National Mortgage News entitled "Macy's Store Closings to Hit $3.64B of CMBS”...
Polluting Economics With Politics
I'm hardly the first one to mention this, but in a politically charged environment that seems to want to reject empirical evidence at all...
How FINRA Profits From Exploited Investors
As I've noted before, FINRA will allow a broker with a 20 year long record of infractions, misdeeds and fraudulent behavior to continue...
