Mission accomplished?
I’m getting a mental picture: The confident commander-in-chief strides across the flight deck of the USS Economy and addresses the aircraft carrier’s crew as a MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner flies...
View ArticleOn the bright side
Brian Wesbury, chief economist at First Trust Advisors, is seeing V’s everywhere. A strong recovery, he believes, is in full swing for the US economy. The stock market, of course, is up. His graphs all...
View ArticleMacro rap
The late economist John Maynard Keynes has been mentioned more than once in the news coverage of President Obama’s State of the Union speech. For a little comic relief from all the analysis of...
View ArticleWe’re Goldman Sachs. Trust us.
The Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit against Goldman Sachs strikes deeply at the issue of trust in the capital markets. Both the firm and the markets as a whole suffered yet another blow in...
View ArticleThe “all lawsuit” channel
Browsing a litigation magazine borrowed from my favorite legal beagle – as a non-lawyer, I’m a little put off even by the idea of a litigation magazine – I ran across a neat online resource from...
View ArticleStill too big to fail
Tom Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and a skeptic on loose monetary policy and the state of the world’s biggest banks, is convinced the United States still hasn’t heeded...
View ArticleAdding wiggle room to guidance
Are we in recession again? Weak recovery? Heading for Financial Crisis 2.0? No wonder more than a few CFOs and IROs have been wringing their hands over what guidance to provide investors as part of the...
View ArticleInvestor relations for the USA?
Take Our Poll The President has pulled into the lead, ahead of a three-way tie among the Treasury secretary, “Other” (write-ins Ben Bernanke, Paul Volcker, Bill Clinton and “Someone who’s fluent in...
View ArticleJamie Dimon: Cheer up, America!
While the markets are going crazy, Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co., is out visiting bank customers and employees on a bus tour in California – and giving an interview today...
View ArticleFive stages of grief
I hate to go all morose and contrarian on another “up” day in the markets, but … Jerome Booth, research director of London-based emerging markets specialist Ashmore Investment Management, makes an...
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