Linkfest: Coping with low inflation; Proliferating ETFs; China’s debt-fueled boom
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Today’s most shared:
- For investors, you can never be too rich, too thin, or have too low inflation. But deflation is potentially disastrous for a real economy fueled by the indebted.
- The proliferation of ETFs, including risky, complex levered ETFs, is perilous.
- China’s debt bubble.
- Hedge fund fine print has land mines for the unwary investor.
- Reg NMS and stock market glitches.
- Tom Perkins tries to simultaneously apologize and double down on his ‘Kristallnacht’ critique.
- The weirdness of the economics Nobel.
Yellen’s First Challenge: Coping With Too-Low Inflation
Bloomberg
One of Janet Yellen’s first challenges as Federal Reserve chairman is generating enough inflation to meet the central bank’s target of 2 percent.
shared by @JacobWolinsky, reddit/Economics, @HamzeiAnalytics, @iShares
Bloomberg
One of Janet Yellen’s first challenges as Federal Reserve chairman is generating enough inflation to meet the central bank’s target of 2 percent.
shared by @JacobWolinsky, reddit/Economics, @HamzeiAnalytics, @iShares
A Federal Reserve Policy Maker Urges It to Do More
New York Times
Narayana Kocherlakota, president of the Minneapolis Fed, said the central bank should increase its efforts to stimulate the economy — a view he conceded had not gained much traction with his colleagues.
shared by @ritholtz, reddit/Economics, @Noahpinion, @pdacosta, FT Alphaville
New York Times
Narayana Kocherlakota, president of the Minneapolis Fed, said the central bank should increase its efforts to stimulate the economy — a view he conceded had not gained much traction with his colleagues.
shared by @ritholtz, reddit/Economics, @Noahpinion, @pdacosta, FT Alphaville
Bair, Critic of the Revolving Door, Joins Board of Santander
New York Times
Sheila C. Bair, who ran the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, once argued that former regulators should be barred from joining the banks they oversaw.
shared by @retheauditors, @mattbish, @JacobWolinsky, @morningmoneyben
New York Times
Sheila C. Bair, who ran the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, once argued that former regulators should be barred from joining the banks they oversaw.
shared by @retheauditors, @mattbish, @JacobWolinsky, @morningmoneyben
Vanguard CIO: Beware ETF Proliferation
Barron’s
The chief investment officer of Vanguard Group is arguing the fund industry does financial advisers and their investors a disservice: Overwhelming them with a blast of new ETFs.
shared by Abnormal Returns, @ReformedBroker, @SimoneFoxman, @ThemisSal
Barron’s
The chief investment officer of Vanguard Group is arguing the fund industry does financial advisers and their investors a disservice: Overwhelming them with a blast of new ETFs.
shared by Abnormal Returns, @ReformedBroker, @SimoneFoxman, @ThemisSal
Druckenmiller Lawyer Takes On Hedge Funds Over Contracts
Bloomberg
Stan Druckenmiller, one of the top- performing money managers of the past three decades, discovered a hard truth when he started investing in other hedge funds: Most don’t treat their clients fairly.
shared by @JacobWolinsky, @hedge_funds, @JohnLothian
Bloomberg
Stan Druckenmiller, one of the top- performing money managers of the past three decades, discovered a hard truth when he started investing in other hedge funds: Most don’t treat their clients fairly.
shared by @JacobWolinsky, @hedge_funds, @JohnLothian
China’s debt-fueled boom is in danger of turning to bust
Financial Times
Forget Argentina. The big story of 2014 in the emerging world is the black cloud of debt hanging over China. Debate rages over how this tale will end.
shared by Naked Capitalism, @StockJockey, @peter_tl, @prchovanec, @tomkeene
Financial Times
Forget Argentina. The big story of 2014 in the emerging world is the black cloud of debt hanging over China. Debate rages over how this tale will end.
shared by Naked Capitalism, @StockJockey, @peter_tl, @prchovanec, @tomkeene
A suspect emerges in stock-trade hiccups: Regulation NMS
Wall Street Journal
The business of filling stock orders has grown increasingly complex, a factor some on Wall Street link to trading glitches of recent years and one that is partly due to rules called Regulation NMS.
shared by @JoeSaluzzi, @ThemisSal, @MattGoldstein26
Wall Street Journal
The business of filling stock orders has grown increasingly complex, a factor some on Wall Street link to trading glitches of recent years and one that is partly due to rules called Regulation NMS.
shared by @JoeSaluzzi, @ThemisSal, @MattGoldstein26
Jobs and Growth: Supporting the European Recovery
imf.org
shared by @GTCost, @graemewearden, @YanniKouts, @MatinaStevis
imf.org
shared by @GTCost, @graemewearden, @YanniKouts, @MatinaStevis
CEO of Bitcoin exchange arrested
Business Insider
The CEO of BitInstant, a Bitcoin exchange, has been arrested at JFK airport for running an illegal wire service.
shared by @MichaelKitces, Naked Capitalism, reddit/Economics, @kevinroose
Business Insider
The CEO of BitInstant, a Bitcoin exchange, has been arrested at JFK airport for running an illegal wire service.
shared by @MichaelKitces, Naked Capitalism, reddit/Economics, @kevinroose
Why Is the American Dream Dead in the South?
The Atlantic
shared by @Noahpinion, @EpicureanDeal, Abnormal Returns, @counterparties
The Atlantic
shared by @Noahpinion, @EpicureanDeal, Abnormal Returns, @counterparties
Perkins Apologizes for Making Holocaust Comparisons
Bloomberg
Tom Perkins, co-founder of venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, talks about comments he made comparing today’s treatment of wealthy Americans to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany.
shared by @TheStalwart, @pkedrosky, @danprimack, @lucymarcus, @delong
Bloomberg
Tom Perkins, co-founder of venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, talks about comments he made comparing today’s treatment of wealthy Americans to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany.
shared by @TheStalwart, @pkedrosky, @danprimack, @lucymarcus, @delong
The Econ Nobel Prize is really weird
Noahpinion
shared by @TFMkts, @MarkThoma, @M_C_Klein, @Noahpinion, @ReformedBroker
Noahpinion
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