Macro Confusion: Inflation, Commodities, and the Fed
The fact is that it is their money pumping that is driving both GDP growth and commodities prices — but not the real economy.
Financial Markets
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The Plight of the MBA Generation
They did what they were supposed to do. Now, they have few job options at all.
Geeks Need to Know Economics
I am a geek. But I often find that when a tech author is reporting on certain events, he lacks a proper understanding of economic theory.
Anne Hathaway and Automatic Trading
Faced with such apparently nonsensical results as the Anne Hathaway effect, automatic trading programs look silly. On the other hand, this is true of any task to which humans put computers; it doesn't mean computers are useless.
Hidden Assumptions in Option Pricing
The main problem with Landsburg's argument is that it unintentionally misleads the reader.
Deep Freeze: Iceland’s Economic Collapse
It was a modern thriving economy one day, and then, suddenly, the food disappeared from the shelves, the banks closed, and the ships stopped arriving. Iceland in 2008 experienced an unprecedented economic meltdown that struck fear in the hearts...
Merger Monday and the Destruction of Wealth
Firms have lots of cash on their balance sheet and it's not earning anything. What to do? Buy the competition.
Don’t Buy Government Bonds
When the state spends more money than it receives in taxes — a fact indelibly written into the bond — it is deliberately committing an act of bankruptcy. Is dishonesty transmuted into its opposite when committed by a legal entity?
Gold Prices and Panic
Bernanke assured the national audience that the Fed was not printing money; however, he didn't explain where the Fed was going to get the funds to buy $600 billion worth of treasuries.
