Bernanke to speak
With Barron’s now chiming in with its belief of what Bernanke should do with rates, and that is higher, as emergency rates are not...
Some Observations about Spot Interest Rates and Forward...
David R. Kotok co-founded Cumberland Advisors in 1973 and has been its Chief Investment Officer since inception. He holds a B.S. in...
Happy Black Monday!
> In case you were unaware, it was 22 years ago today . . . to celebrate, pick up as copy of Tim Metz’ Black Monday. >
Is the WH Finally Taking Regulatory Reform Seriously?
With their Senate health care victory still fresh in the mind, is Team Obama finally getting serious about reforming Banking and Wall...
The Weekend’s Shopping Experiences
It is the weekend, and I am minding my own business, sitting in front of the computer, watching Kramer’s entrances repeatedly, when...
Optical illusions show how we see
Beau Lotto’s color games puzzle your vision, but they also spotlight what you can’t normally see: how your brain works. This...
Google: We Overpaid $1B for YouTube
When Google bought YouTube, the deal was mostly panned. (but I liked it — the increase in G’s value paid for the deal almost...
A Conversation with Nassim Taleb
Nassim Taleb is the best-selling author of Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. So called...
SG: Worst case debt scenario
Daniel Fermon of Société Générale produces some of the more unusual market research and especially charts and graphs. What I have...
Every Single Kramer Entrance, in Chronological Order
Yet another example of YouTube’s raison d’etre: > > Its even more impressive when you stop to consider how much work...