…fund with tax money (from parks to disease research, from environmental enforcement to insider trading enforcement, from new roads to better cargo searches, etc.)–as Weidner notes, all those equity deals…

…caused by the housing boom funded by the easy credit of turnover securitization of mortgage loans, coupled with the casino banking mentality spurred by proprietary trading and naked credit default…

…believed that he had made the world a much better place when he confinced the Chicago Commodities board to introduce trading in the index. But then almost no one traded…

…with lots of hedge-fund managers trading all the time and keeping markets efficient, stocks are at record highs around the globe and markets are deeper, more liquid and less volatile….

…of the time. A detailed analysis of Keynes’s discussion of Goldman Sachs’s antics in the late 1920s, which echo their trading in middle 2000s, is left to someone else. (Suffice…

…the month-end September CNY would be valued 11% higher against the USD than it is now. They slowed real appreciation, too. The real appreciation of the CNY against its trading…

…Who, like reader CreativeGeneration on a different thread regarding proprietary trading and his lack of knowing, will grit their teeth to learn the outline of what is being discussed and…

…(3) properties, which has been a very good way for those workers to get rich through selling and “trading up.” The primary solution to this bubble, he believes, would be…

…entrepreneurship. The returns from capital that are favored, however, are not closely correlated with reinvestments in businesses. Most of the returns are those gained merely from secondary market trading and…

…in better systems, better technology, better analysis, and better methods. Low Latency leads to High-Frequency Trading (HFT) which leads to…well, let’s be nice and just say “greater firm profits.” Even…