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I'm not sure which is worse. The fact that we live in a society where people can sue food manufacturers for their obsesity...
I'm not sure which is worse. The fact that we live in a society where people can sue food manufacturers for their obsesity...
I'm sure I'll offend approximately half of our readers with this post, but I'm finding it hard to resist. I was sidetracked by...
The term "Financial Repression" was popularized by Carmen Reinhart in a NBER working paper written in March 2011, titled The Liquidation of Government...
Fans of James Grant know very well that for the past few years, this exceptional market historian has sounded the alarm on the...
Pusillanimity: the state or condition of being pusillanimous. Or, as David Kotok, explains in a recent Market Commentary, "Pusillanimity means a lack of...
We’ve been admittedly quiet on China of late, but it’s certainly not due to lack of material. In fact, it’s probably just the...
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but in this case, we figure it’s worth about $4 trillion, which is the...
The FOMC announced today that it will continue its Maturity Extension Program (MEP)—better known as the “twist”—through the end of the year and...
According to Wikipedia (emphasis added): "Brinkmanship (or brinksmanship) is the practice of pushing dangerous events to the verge of disaster in order to achieve the...
This morning, markets were woken up by the singing birds of central bank interest rate cuts. We first learned that The Peoples Bank...