…for the past 4 years since the Fed started to increase interest rates: The 10 year bond closed yesterday at 4.42%, and as I write this is trading at 4.48%….

…of life with the same speed and precision as they confront presumed high-frequency program trading industrial espionage cases… especially those that allegedly involve Goldman Sachs. The original is from Reuters….

…is which plant it will be? All of this is speculative, because I don’t know the tire market in France. That’s what I would want to learn from a newspaper…

…the wrongdoing is committed in the first place. In the case of the big Wall Street banks, however, she notes that they made out like bandits during the speculative orgy…

…and lazy brain syndrome how would we know. Is there any evidence against the wildly speculative hypothesis that the vast majority have lost their ability to think straight, because of…

…charitable and speculative explanations, though. The most obvious interpretation is suggested by the title of this post: we’re consuming more and more of our seed corn (and tractors), leaving less…

…great, but they’re not really possible. It’s hard to distinguish a hedge from a bet, or a speculative trade from a legitimate one. The world is complex, and that’s why…

…gain is primarily speculative (often the case with hedge funds) or destructive of domestic businesses (often the case with private equity funds). Private equity fund managers, you will recall, invented…

…2000 to about 70 trillion in 2007–all a castle of cards built on a foundation of sand and tangling the world’s too-big-to-fail banks in a web of speculative bets and…

…Sarbanes-Oxley, and every other regulatory agency no matter the impact on the economy or on ordinary Americans, thus encouraging a return to speculative frenzy that allows socialization of losses/privatization of…