The Concept Of Kitchen Sinking
Boeing's results are just coming up and the question is, well, how much is the new CEO going to insist upon as provisions against...
IMF Warns That Regulation’s Great – As Long As Banks Don’t Escape It
It does rather depend upon who you read here over the IMF's latest warnings about debt, the next downturn and the final crumbling of...
Many Theories Are Right About – Because There Are Many Reasons For – Investing
There are myriad theories concerning the hows and whys of peoples' investing. It's extraordinarily difficult to narrow it all down to one or two...
Beware Open Ended Funds With An Illiquid Underlying
A classic liquidity mismatch
We should all know that there's an inherent problem with fractional reserve banking, after all, it was explained back in It's...
De Fault Is In The Stars
Yeah, a really bad pun, but we specialise in such. So what recently caught our eye here in our dark scribbler’s pit was a...
Sure, Markets Get A Bit Excited – Isn’t That Good?
It's a pretty standard complaint about financial markets that they get overexcited about the New Big Thing. Everyone piles into the fashionable and this...
The Problem With Peer To Peer Lending
There's only the one major problem with peer to peer lending. It doesn't work.
The peer-to-peer industry has been dealt another blow after lending firm...
How We Know That Avinash Persaud Is Blowing Smoke About The Financial Transactions Tax
It's possible to the actual work on a financial transactions tax and prove that it's pensioners that pay it, it shrinks the economy, doesn't...
Why Invest So Little In Property?
The Questor column in the Telegraph outlines how property is "the best income asset". Yet they allocate only a small portion of their model...
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,...