…for talking about the fact that without stabilizing intervention and protective regulation, market pricing–and the kinds of speculation that Duffie praises–tends to lead to market bubbles. The housing markets are…

…when both the world and corporate capital structures were very different from how they look now, can really teach us much about stock-market investing. I don’t believe that the stock-market…

…the market as long as you return while the market is below the cash line you are still better off than if you rode the market down and back up….

…Mr. Ferguson is giving a fair and balanced view of the state of the labor market: If indeed there is less readily available labor than previously thought, Mr. Ferguson said,…

…its bottom based on the “neutral” market forces. But neutral market forces don’t exist. They are shaped by the powerful and if you let the powerful take wages from ordinary…

http://www.middleclasspoliticaleconomist.com/2013/08/republicans-market-oriented-health-care.html Republicans’ “Market-Oriented” Health Care Reforms Won’t Work, Part 1 This has been a week of Republicans saying they have actual ideas for replacing Obamacare, rather than just repealing it….

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco published a letter about the labor market. The letter is titled, Gauging the Momentum of the Labor Recovery, and written by Mary C….

…Rowe sees in the goods market of the IS curve, I see in the money market of the LM curve. In the previous post, I divided the money market into…

…And I believe it will likely need to begin before either the labor market or the financial markets have completely turned around. Hoenig (July 16): “While the comparison to the…

Mark Cook is an investor who uses his own proprietary indicator to assess the stock market. He saw the crashes of 1987, 2000 and 2007. (article from WSJ Market Watch)…