…Alan Greenspan was at the International Monetary Conference in London, England on June 8. This speech was looked on with much interest by markets because it was almost a year…

…followed suit except for the UK and Ireland who have no restrictions at all (and are pretty far away anyway + have robust labor markets). Why is there so much…

Kash’s Call #4: Housing Market Prices My prediction is that housing prices will peak in 2004 in many (perhaps most) of the major regional markets in the US. By late…

Baseball and Efficient Markets CBS Marketwatch reports on a recently circulated research paper by Ronald Kahn at Barclay’s Capital that makes a very good analogy between investing and baseball: The…

…who understand how the financial markets work to clean up the mess that this statement left in the financial markets, as reported by CNN/Money: Officials at the Treasury Department and…

…proxy for deregulated markets. For markets? Well, yes. Deregulated markets? Really? Edsall must have had in mind the public’s fondness for the economic collapse in 2008. Elsewhere in the article,…

RB Energy describes the problems with commercial and residential propane markets: We’ve been talking a lot over the past year about the need for increasing exports to balance the U.S…

…out that financial liberalization by China would allow more asset diversification, it also acknowledges that world financial markets would become vulnerable to a shock in China’s financial system. Martin Wolf…

…often failed to do their job while markets, which have worked where they have been tried, need to be used more widely. The right price Zetland begins with a simple…

…the commons were stinted, so was the market in goods (especially in grain). Markets could not operate without regard for the provisioning of commoners and the poor. Farmers, for example,…