You're not getting my point. Think of it this way. You have been relatively conservative, lived modestly and saved $1000 (although you have been...
I do G3 interest rates and I use Matlab for most of my analytics at the moment. Would be happy to participate...
Japan is a VERY screwed up country. Household savings rate that people always mention as a saving grace for Japan isn't gonna help. BTW,...
That before or after the USD joins the race to the bottom?
Wow, a neo-Luddite movement!!!! Next thing you know we're gonna start breaking the robots and quoting Malthus again! Isn't this sorta question...
TCE is key, because other bits of Tier 1 capital (hybrids) are only loss-bearing in the event of liquidation. Since liquidation, at least in the...
I think he's right... Ultimately, the real productivity kick has to come from China and the rest of EM. If/when they get over the...
This is old news and all priced in. The monoline "AAA" (yeah, right) wrappers are worthless.
Seeing as how C/BAC have a few assets themselves, you might have a while to wait yet.
There's some statistical evidence (I forget the paper) that mkt participants generally underestimate the length of economic cycles. I would...
Check this out... Food for thought, in't it? Now we know where all this inflation is coming from :).
Check this out! It would be super funny, if it weren't quite so sad... 'World Finance' named Allen Stanford 'Man of the Year' in December....
Don't be silly... What do you expect the President of the European Central Bank to say? 'I hereby declare that one of the countries within the...
Ooooops, ze Germans are repudiating it now... 11:17 20Feb2009 RTRS-GERMAN FINANCE MINISTRY SAYS SPIEGEL REPORT ON EURO BOND ISSUES DOES NOT...
Here's what I'm talking about: 10:07 20Feb09 RTRS-GERMANY STUDYING POSSIBLE RESCUE MEASURES FOR OTHER EURO ZONE STATES IN FINANCIAL TROUBLE...
This is a well-known behavioural finance result. Another one I really like is the one about the overconfidence bias exhibited by men ('Boys will...
The PIIGS tightened quite a lot yesterday, so looks like Ireland, Greece and the others might be OK, after all. Besides, the Germans are making...
No offense taken... No, I am not a survivalist type at all. It's just that if I can buy a very cheap hedge for this eventuality, why forego the...
Here you go: *FEDS LOCKHART: 'BANK NATIONALISATION `SUBSTANTIALLY' OFF TABLE'...
It's a valid point you make, austin. Doug is selling a cheap call, buy it, write off the premium and you might get huge upside. I was prepared...
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