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Greenspan on the US’s External Imbalances

…in international portfolios at their recent pace. Net debt service cost, though currently still modest, would eventually become burdensome. At some point, diversification considerations will slow and possibly limit the…

portfolio and an advisor who adviced me to buy this stock. Now if I had only listened to her when she told me to buy more and I had not…

…value of the investment portfolio. For many families rising house-prices meant rising household wealth – even after taking into account the losses in other investments. But while a single call…

…economists – I’m not. I work in discretionary portfolio management for high net worth clients in a rather large European financial services company. You can find my regular home on…

…only added about $30bn in US government bonds to their portfolio this year. (Again, see chart below.) This creates a bit of a puzzle: where is China putting all of…

Show me the Model

…nominal mortgage interest rate is higher than an equal maturity nominal default risk free rate. Then this risk premium has effects and Fed purchases of RMBS have portfolio balance effects….

Sovereign Wealth Funds

…That would be 10% of shares of every listed corporation (this portfolio massively outperforms the S&P 500 ) I add that I am not fully socialist, so I don’t want…