…as China’s response. Let’s start with the setup. Trump ran on tariffs, and in February, he broadcast his strategy, fostering a slow decline in financial markets. It started with a 20% tariff…
Update: The term corporate savings below refers to excess saving, gross saving over gross domestic investment, as a percentage of GDP. This is the defined 3-sector financial balance model (referred…
Reuters reminds us financial reform law still in the works: Although a final vote is expected within days on the White House’s top domestic priority, lawmakers have yet to settle…
…Magazine, one could only wonder where we would be today if the economic and financial wizards had heeded her words. Short histories on CDO/CDS . . . Collateral Debt Obligations…
…militarization through two preemptive wars deliver a robust economy. Instead, the rash of financial speculation and finanialization of the economy pushed us into a deep financial crisis and the Great…
by Linda Beale What’s Romney Got to Hide? It’s past time for financial and tax transparency As everybody who has followed anything about this election cycle knows, Mitt Romney–likely the…
…was basic financial intermediation, usually for the purpose of helping Corporate and/or High Net Worth clients.* That was until the late 1990s and the Noughts, when the third level came…
Robert Waldmann Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein come very close to accusing Alec Litowitz of the Magnetar hedge fund of being a financial arsonist. I have been speculating about financial…
…business consultants and financial professionals provide perspectives on the financial world. Despite their expansive coverage of economic issues, their articles are as deep as their coverage is extensive. Topics include…
…synonym for “money.” So the first financial definition of “liquidity” is 1) Liquidity n. the amount of liquid assets or “money supply”. This meaning is no longer current. It is…