Today’s most shared: Fed delay in 2008 attributed to inflation fears, oil prices. What’s next for Ukraine? The SEC’s stockpickers seem prescient about upcoming enforcement actions. Looking into the market cap/GDP ratio. Highest earning money managers. Shades of 1999 as … Read more
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Spectral risk measures are relatively new entrants to the field of risk management, with the distinctive feature that they relate the risk measure directly to the user’s risk aversion function. This post discusses the pros and cons of using them … Read more
Leave a CommentToday’s most shared: China markets start to price in risk someone will be left without a chair when the music stops. Visualizing the housing bust and recovery, as mortgages and home sales start to stall. How Zara shifts profits to … Read more
Leave a CommentToday’s most shared: Insiders reveal how Bill Gross and Mohamed El-Erian clashed, discord at top fund manager. Bitcoin gyrates as top exchange collapses. The coming Tesla utopia. Recovery, or bubble? Can anyone tell, and how should one think and write … Read more
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Today’s most shared: How far behind the curve was the 2008 Fed? Signs of China slowdown become more apparent. Comcast is reshaping the Internet with the deal for Time Warner Cable, and now a landmark but confusing deal with Netflix, … Read more
Leave a CommentToday’s most shared: Federal Reserve releases transcripts from 2008 financial crisis. Momentum markets hard to beat for active fundamental and value investors. How telcos are losing revenue to mobile messaging apps. Risks of tapering. Market shenanigans: exchange rebates, early press … Read more
Leave a CommentToday’s most shared: Facebook bags an elephant, paying $19b for WhatsApp. Spectre of deflation haunts Europe. Berkshire Hathaway’s limited disclosures. Regulators lack crisis early-warning system. Mean reversion. Walmart supports minimum wage hike – highest productivity means competitors would be impacted … Read more
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Overview Hearing or reading about the state of the beleaguered labor market is impossible to avoid. The financial crisis began more than six years ago, and it has been even longer, since May 2008, from the last bottom in the … Read more
11 CommentsToday’s most shared: Big paydays on Wall Street often come under laserlike scrutiny, while Silicon Valley gets a pass on compensation excesses like $100m for Google’s Eric Schmidt. The deserving 1%. Wall Street’s secret frat party. Most Wall Street professionals … Read more
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