…financial institutions, which marks assets to the market value, no matter the conditions of the market. When no meaningful market exists, as is the current market for mortgage backed securities,…

…company profits. I would guess that the individual health insurance market is quite competitive and the profit rate, while probably higher than in group markets due to bargaining power, is…

…weakened against the euro, China has stepped up its intervention in currency markets to keep its yuan inexpensive and exports growing. Factoring in higher oil prices too, the overall trade…

…in non-Western cultures around the world, including those living close to how our Paleolithic ancestors lived, and although their responses vary more than those of modern peoples living in market…

In the previous OldVet comments I talked about the relationship between interest rates and the stock market. I just though I would but up one example of what I was…

…helped our mortgage markets function more efficiently while providing wider access to mortgage credit. But some of these innovations also have negative aspects. As the mortgage market has become more…

…recall is earth shattering news, but how is a consumer in a free market economy to make the rational decisions to conform to the rational behavior that market theory demands?…

…way that was calculated was the drop in stock market market capitilization during July 2002 when the legislation was passed. Somehow, SOX gets the entire responsibility for that July 2002…

…on the economics of proposals that would increase the level of federal intervention in the gasoline market. He points to this letter signed by Milton Friedman, Edward Prescott, and others:…

…true “cost” of the employee options. Lowenstein properly notes that we are talking the market price at the time the option is granted – as the value of an option…