Best SuperBowl Commercials
These were my favorite Superbowl commercials: > Audi Big Game Commercial 2011 – Release the Hounds A surprisingly witty spot...
Quantifying the rate market tightening
To quantify the extent the market has “tightened” policy for the Fed, the yield spread between the 2 yr note, which is highly...
Wallison and the three “des” – Deregulation,...
Bill Black is an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is also a white-collar...
Withholding Tax Stronger Than BLS Employment
The January employment data as reported by BLS was pretty punk — only 36k new jobs created, and half a million people leaving the...
Inflation Nation?
Assessing the geopolitical risk of inflation, with Keith McCullough, Hedgeye Risk Mgmt, and Richard Bernstein, CNBC contributor. Airtime:...
Morning Stuff
Following Friday’s very unclear labor report and 3 weeks into earnings season, the news flow tapers off a bit until getting active...
Washington Post: Why politics and investing don’t mix
> I had a column published in Sunday’s Washington Post Business Section. Its titled “Why politics and investing...
Is it Really Different this Time? A Cyclical Perspective Is it...
> Lakshman Achuthan discusses ECRI. He is not an economist. But all he hass done for 20 years is study recessions and recoveries. At...
All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial...
All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera > “Hell is empty, and all...