…any funds to the rest of the economy (though I don’t think he put it that way). With all the talk of Liquidity needs and Greek bonds, jck at Alea…

…John Cochrane should not be allowed to talk about finance. (Bonus coverage: EofC’s previous piece on John Taylor) Alea’s jck on how all the talk about risk management became mainstreamed….

Is it really Good News that changes in Real Private Inventories were 3.4% of that 5.7% Q-on-Q GDP in Q4? (h/t Alea’s Twitter feed) Most reasonable assumption: firms overproduced, relative…

Via (what else?) Alea’s Twitter feed, John Taylor defends himself against Ben Bernanke: “The evidence is overwhelming that those low interest rates were not only unusually low but they logically…

…the end of Q1.” Of course, there are some cures that would be worse than the disease. Via alea’s Twitter feed, I see that either the headline writer or the…

UPDATE: It gets even stranger. The bankrupt-since-October-2008 Lehman Brothers is going to pay $50,000,000 in bonuses for this year. (h/t alea’s Twitter feed) It appears all of the “gosh, we…

Via alea‘s Twitter feed, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency—the people who were specifically selected by the company to regulate AIG—has launched a Financial Literacy campaign. (Full disclosure:…

sc, commenting at Alea on September 24th, was much better: How to play this to make money? GLD and SKF (if it starts behaving properly) and OTM [out of the…

Alea notes TAF results: Total propositions submitted: $138.092 billion Total propositions accepted: $138.092 billion Bid/cover ratio: 0.92 Number of bidders: 71 The auction in question was supposed to be a…

…natural gas, other than the odd city bus or garbage truck in random municipalities? The answer is a simple but unpleasant one. See, we in the US would label the…