…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…

…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…

…that would make fixed-rate securities—you know, the thing PIMCO is famous for trading—more valuable? It’s good to know that “Me First” needs to change, and nice to see the Post…

…two weeks worth of recent trading profits.” Goldman’s Bailout Fee, Wall St. Journal, July 17-18, 2010, at A12. Too little, methinks, even with the concession not to seek a tax…

…they adopt the Senate version (which covers 90% of derivatives according to the CFTC) or the House version which is riddled with loopholes and covers only 60% of derivatives trading?…