Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: The Emerging Markets’ Century — The American, A Magazine of Ideas www.american.com “Whereas public debt levels in many major industrialized countries will soon exceed 100 percent of GDP, those in the major emerging market economies generally range between 40 to 50 percent of GDP.” …
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: FASB’s Tort Bar Gift – WSJ.com online.wsj.com “The Wall Street Journal editorial board on the accounting group’s proposal to require companies disclose the potential costs of litigation.” Alex Epstein: Obama Follows Nixon on Oil Spill – WSJ.com online.wsj.com “In The Wall Street Journal, …
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: Bam’s lousy economic record: Let’s just look at the facts, shall we? www.nydailynews.com “On the campaign trail, President Obama is talking about everything except his own economic record. He attacks his predecessor – a man for whom I worked – as his advisers …
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: William McGurn: Are Americans Bigots? – WSJ.com online.wsj.com “In The Wall Street Journal, Main Street columnist William McGurn says elites have become far too ready to attack the motives of those who disagree with them.” Henry Olsen: Unemployment: What Would Reagan Do? – WSJ.com …
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: Nature or nurture: What determines investor behavior www.sciencedirect.com Here’s the abstract from this fascinating article: “Using data on identical and fraternal twins’ complete financial portfolios, we decompose the cross-sectional variation in investor behavior. We find that a genetic factor explains about one-third of the …
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: Hurricane Neal: Cat. 5 – Barrons.com online.barrons.com “Rep. Richard Neal’s bill has foreign insurance companies worried.” ‘Dilbert’ Cartoonist Puts His Money Into ETFs – WSJ.com online.wsj.com “Scott Adams uses his ‘Dilbert’ strip to mock actively managed funds and their managers.” Connecticut Probing Pricing of …
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: Obama Declares Auto Bailout a Success – WSJ.com online.wsj.com “The president said last year’s $60 billion rescue of GM and Chrysler saved an estimated one million jobs… Alan Blinder of Princeton University and Mark Zandi of Moody’s, estimated that the rescue of GM during …
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: Dipping and Deflating — The American, A Magazine of Ideas www.american.com “A double-dip recession now appears all too probable, likely tipping the U.S. economy into deflation.” SEC Says New FinReg Law Exempts It From Public Disclosure www.foxbusiness.com “Under a little-noticed provision of the recently …
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: Kimberley A. Strassel: About That Financial Reform ‘Victory’ – WSJ.com online.wsj.com “In The Wall Street Journal, Potomac Watch columnist Kim Strassel writes that Dodd-Frank may backfire on Democrats.” Andy Kessler: The Yo-Yo Market and You – WSJ.com online.wsj.com “In The Wall Street Journal, Andy …
Eugene White: Dodd-Frank, Meet William Jennings Bryan – WSJ.com online.wsj.com “In the Wall Street Journal, Eugene White explains why a ‘Financial Crisis Fund,’ similar to current proposals, was rejected over a century ago during the financial crisis of 1893.” Amity Shlaes: FDR, Obama and ‘Confidence’ – WSJ.com online.wsj.com “Amity Shlaes writes in The Wall Street …
