Financial Musings

Bear and Bernanke

While things have by no means calmed down in our capital markets, I have a bit of a break and am going to take Ferris […]

50,000,000 Dollar Note

Poor ol’ Zimbabwe, today marked the third time in three months that the Zimbabwean Central Bank has printed a higher denomination note.  The one today: […]

Is Airbus in the Euro Business?

All over the news today: the Pentagon chooses Airbus to revamp it’s super-tanker fleet, awarding an up to $100 billion (USD) contract to the French […]

Stop Talking About Commodities!

I sit here every day listening to the talking heads on CNBC, watching the headlines flash by on my screens, and seeing the newspaper finance […]

Fooled by Randomness

Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb Just finished this one, pretty good read, reminded me a lot of my Behavioral Finance class at Cal.  If […]

Work Schedule

I found a pretty good proxy for my work schedule craziness this morning: The JP Morgan G7 Currency Volatility Index.  Anything above an 8.0 is […]