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Photo Credit: Heather Wizell || Ah, Wallstrip with Lindsay Campbell (look at the microphone…)===========================================Here’s another article that I edited at The Balance: Short Selling Stocks- Not for the Faint Hearted.…
SOURCE: Funny Economist – Randall Parker’s Completely Serious Macroeconomics Blog – Read entire story here.
Stock indices remain vulnerable to corrective losses Global share markets suffered significant corrective losses from the middle of the last week although these setbacks are currently viewed as...
Equities stay firm into US Employment report A positive “risk on” tone across global equity markets this week has been reinforced by US equity averages again moving to new 2019…
This is an exiting day. I disagree with something Paul Krugman wrote. In 2017, private insurance paid about a third of America’s medical bills — $1.2 trillion, or 6 percent…
December JOLTS report: mixed but with strong positive revisions The JOLTS report on labor is noteworthy and helpful because it breaks down the jobs market into a more granular look…
I was writing to potential clients when I realized that I don’t have so much to write about my bond track record as I do my track record with stocks.…
I have wasted far too much of my time killing zombies. This is what Paul Krugman calls ideas or alleged facts that, despite being shown to be wrong countless times,…
The US dollar has strengthened against 8 out the 10 G-10 currencies as the first half of the year winds down.
The deleveraging of the Chinese economy has always seemed likely to be a long and troublesome saga, lasting many years or even decades if it is to prove successful. The…
Ok all you students of history out there, wake up and watch Greece. There is a Great Depression in action happening before your eyes in real time. It will not…
Imagine you had to choose, and could choose: you can spend your whole life and raise your family in either of two equally prosperous countries. In one country people work…
UK Only Article: standard article Fly Title: Puerto Rico's finances Rubric: Startling parallels between Greece and an American outpost in the Caribbean Byline: D.R. Location: NEW YORK Main image: 20150704_blp907.jpg…
If my memory serves me correctly, one of the rounds of applause received in the UK election debate on Thursday was when Clegg said that Miliband should have apologised for…
Photo Credit: Kevin TrotmanBefore I write this evening, I have updated the blog’s theme so that it is more readable on mobile devices. I’ve tried to preserve most of the…
I hope they at least let my step daughter and her life partner get a slice of pepperoni before they give them the old heave ho! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2963229/ISIS-vow-Rome-throw-homosexuals-leaning-tower-PIZZA.html
Simon Fasdal, fresh from a visit to Moscow, looks at the pros and cons of Russian assets and why Russian corporate bonds, despite many risk factors, could be the choice…
Getty Images The financial markets listened to Janet Yellen’s speech on “normalising” monetary policy last Friday, shrugged, and moved on largely unaffected. It was, indeed, a dovish speech, of the…
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: What does Hillary stand for? Fly Title: Urban regeneration Rubric: As badlands get cleaned up, the poor still get pushed to the margins Location:…
The much-ballyhooed announcement video offers little hint . For the first half-minute or so, you would be excused for thinking that it was some sort of detergent commercial, intended to…