Today’s most shared: Is inequality overstated? Exchanges, unsurprisingly, don’t like dark pools and think all trading should take place on exchanges. Is a house a better investment than the stock market? When your starting point is ‘short housing’ i.e. you … Read more
Leave a CommentToday’s most shared: The decline of the American middle and lower classes. Recent history looks increasingly like ‘trickle-up’ economics. Bank reform proves hard as Basel rules spare many derivatives which could result in contagion; Euro banking union remains unwieldy and … Read more
Leave a CommentToday’s most shared: Risk of rising rates to hit euro periphery, Wall Street trading desks. Hedge funds and VC don’t shine on a risk-adjusted basis. Everything you need to know about economics. Investing is a craft, like making sushi. The … Read more
Leave a CommentToday’s most shared: Momentum swings both ways: Hedge funds clobbered by fall in tech stocks, respond by driving them lower. No one still believes financial markets are self-stabilizing. Obama administration warns Wall Street bigs of escalating financial warfare on Russia. … Read more
Leave a CommentToday’s most shared: Are some types of trading negative-sum activities? Can too much liquidity be harmful? Are central bankers out of ammo? If you lose your job in a deep recession, you may be unemployed a long time. New York … Read more
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Leave a CommentToday’s most shared: El-Erian calls for more coordinated, aggressive policy intervention as ECB prepares for unconventional monetary policy. Possible flood of HFT lawsuits, regulation gets underway as Michael Lewis pushes back against critics. Facebook targets payments, Amazon to release phone … Read more
Leave a CommentToday’s most shared: Is it the start of a broader downturn as leading stocks turn lower? SEC moves to pilot wider tick sizes, ‘trade-at’ rule forcing dark pools to route some trades to exchanges. Fears of hyperinflation haven’t quite panned … Read more
Leave a CommentToday’s most shared: How big a mess is Bill Gross’s Pimco? Bond king does damage control in Bloomberg BusinessWeek profile. A new gilded age. Case in point: Och-Ziff’s $119m man. How the SEC let banks off with a wrist-slap on … Read more
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