Two Absurd Claims About Lending And The Great Crash
The Observer's business editorial really outdoes itself today with two fallacious claims about bank lending and recessions, crashes and even the Great Crash. It...
The Banks’ Gross Profits On Mortgage Holidays
It does need to be pondered over, just where does The Times get these stories from? For here they're claiming that mortgage holidays are...
Laurence Kotlikoff On What Really Produced The Recession And Crash – No, Not Bad...
It's not necessary to entirely agree with this analysis to grasp and agree with the underlying point being made. It was the structure of...
Doesn’t This Just Kill The CEOs Are Overpaid Argument
There are those who insist that CEOs are overpaid. What shareholders do with their own money is not, of course, something to be determined...
At Least Erdogan’s Son In Law – Turkey’s New Finance Minister – Has Run...
It's possible to view Turkey as retreating - advancing if you prefer - to something like the power and economic status it had as...
NatWest Isn’t Being Prosecuted For Money Laundering
We're about to be bombarded with insistences that the law needs to be changed for a bank has been found to be money laundering....
Wondering whether an idea is actually correct or not
There's an idea out there which seems intuitive but then so many ideas do seem that way. It;s whether they actually hold up in...
WeWork As A Proof Of The Efficient Markets Hypothesis
The little jokule about the efficient markets hypothesis is that Eugene Fama got the Nobel for proving it, Lars Hansen for doing the maths,...
WorldMarkets Continues With Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Trading Success
Today we live in the information age, and access to information is unlimited. And that produces the paradox of misinformation. That’s why it’s more...
Has the GameStop ‘Short Squeeze’ Changed Finance?
The start of this year saw a bit of a tussle between retail traders and Wall Street as the Reddit community of wallstreetbets grew...