By JKH Introduction This is the paper by Éric Tymoigne and L. Randall Wray: http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_778.pdf The paper as suggested by the title is a reply to various critics who have [ … ]
Mark Freeman – Finding Income Without Taking Undue Risk
Last week’s WealthTrack episode helped try to answer a question that I am sure on lots of people’s minds – how can you find income in a low interest rate [ … ]
Happy Thanksgiving!
About 5 years ago I started this website hoping to provide myself and readers with some clarity on the state of the global economy and the financial crisis. I can’t [ … ]
Goldman Sachs: 2 Macro Investment Ideas for 2014
Goldman Sachs is slowly releasing their best ideas for 2014. The first two are attached below:
Five Years Ago Today
Five years ago today, the markets were reeling. The most common emotions were fear and dread. Even though no less an authority than Warren Buffet had noticed the buying opportunity just over a month earlier, almost nobody was anxious to buy stocks.
Howard Marks: This is not a Bubble
I have to admit – when I wrote that piece a few weeks ago confidently declaring that the market was not a bubble I didn’t feel terribly comfortable about it. [ … ]
Shiller: “We can’t trust momentum in the housing market”
Robert told CNBC this morning that the 12% year over year rate of change in house prices can’t be trusted. No kidding. To put this in perspective I charted out [ … ]
There Might not Even be an Exit
Paul Krugman had a good piece in yesterday’s blog about the potential for a Fed exit. Basically, he doesn’t think the Fed is even close to exiting highly accommodative policy [ … ]
The Kalecki Equation: a Brief Follow-up
I am seeing a lot of analysts and advisors using the Kalecki profits equation with increasing frequency. And with this increasing frequency of use I am also seeing increasingly misleading [ … ]