On the radio, in the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, wherever I go, mysterious “speculators” get blamed for the hike in prices of commodities. Particularly oil. […]
Financial Musings
Opium for Wheat
An interesting result of the soaring cereal crop prices: the Taliban are having their heroin cash crop usurped by farmers who want to reap the […]
Inga Dam
A lot of people probably think the building of a massive hydroelectric dam in a developing African nation is a good thing. Economic stimulation, sustainable […]
No Sex at Deutsche Bank
Looks like the executives over at Deutsche are going to be forfeiting some of the pleasantries they’ve gotten used to. I mean, c’mon, don’t you […]
Dollar Surprise
Yesterday at work…
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 […]