Vikram Mansharamani, a lecturer at Yale, discusses five lenses for identifying historical asset bubbles that then burst and provides examples of where his lenses point to a bubble (China) and where they don’t point to a bubble (food prices). Read more
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Robert Johnston, director of the global energy and natural resources practice at Eurasia Group, addresses the prospects for the United States becoming a natural gas “superpower,” and the global geopolitical and investment implications of the US shale energy boom. Read more
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Antoine van Agtmael argues that an industrial renaissance in the United States is eroding the competitive edge of emerging markets. Read more
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Top posts from last month included a network analysis of Bloomberg’s Twitter a-list, dire warnings about the Fed’s policies from James G. Rickards, and discussions about alternatives to fiat money. Read more
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Events on the Korean peninsula have been unfolding quickly. Is North Korea’s latest sabre-rattling truly an investment risk? Or for those with a longer time horizon, is it a buying opportunity? Read more
Leave a CommentAfter the Great Recession, some quantitative finance watchers stated that the discipline wass dead. Yet, some practitioners, such as Attilio Meucci, are evolving new ways for coping with the real world’s complexities. Read more
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At the recent CFA Institute Global Investment Risk Symposium, Ron Ryan, CFA, of Ryan ALM, appealed for greater transparency and the application of commonsense principles in pension accounting, warning that without such changes the solvency of corporations, cities, and states is at stake. Read more
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The United States is at war, but not in the conventional sense. There are no troops on the ground. There are no drone strikes. Instead, the weapon of choice is the US dollar and the “enemy” is America’s trading partners. Welcome … Read more
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