Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: How Dismal is the Fiscal Future For America and Europe? Becker – The Becker-Posner Blog www.becker-posner-blog.com Here’s Nobel Laureate Gary Becker’s views on the possibility of a (developed economies) debt crisis: “Posner lays out clearly many of the present and future solvency and default …
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, …
I received an email invitation today from CFO (Chief Financial Officer) Magazine to register for an upcoming webcast on the “Recent Findings from the Duke/CFO Magazine Global Outlook Survey” (see below). According to the Duke/CFO Business Outlook Survey website located at http://www.cfosurvey.org/, the survey is conducted quarterly, and it “…polls CFOs of both public and …
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: Michael P. Fleischer: Why I’m Not Hiring – WSJ.com online.wsj.com “In The Wall Street Journal, Michael P. Fleischer writes that punishing tax rates discourage job creation by businesses.” Book review: The Five-Year Party – WSJ.com online.wsj.com “Melanie Kirkpatrick reviews The Five-Year Party: How Colleges …
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 …
Sandy Leeds has an interesting post today concerning foreign holdings of publicly held US Treasury securities. According to Mr. Leeds, currently there is $8.6 trillion outstanding of publicly held US Treasury securities. The US Treasury’s website provides a table that breaks the debt down in terms of foreign holdings of these securities; thus slightly less than …
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 my favorite quote (and cartoon) from an article which appeared in today’s Wall Street Journal entitled “A ‘Dilbert’ Guide to Funds”: “Mr. Adams says that from his perspective as a cartoonist, “there has to be something broken in order to get a joke out of it.” In a series of “Dilbert” comic strips that …
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 …
