Pandemic Post-Mortem
On the menu today: post-mortem on the Treasury market meltdown, PPP problems, the end of the CARES Act, and the rise of carry.
On the menu today: post-mortem on the Treasury market meltdown, PPP problems, the end of the CARES Act, and the rise of carry.
On the menu today: bitcoin surging, Senate rejects sound money, and schools close in New York City.
On the menu today: how we got a vaccine, how it works, how it will be transported, and how our forebears distributed a smallpox vaccine.
On the menu today: a stalled IPO bodes poorly for China’s tech industry, Ackman’s Big Short 2.0, and a look at the history of innovation in China.
On the menu today: What vaccine news means for markets, how to distribute, and how it could have come quicker.
On the menu today: contested elections, now and then.
On the menu today: Wall Street’s election hopes, Treasuries hold up in volatile market, and a look at the financial impact of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
On the menu today: China’s 19th Party Congress, vaccine diplomacy, insider trading from home, and a look at the Microsoft antitrust case.
On the menu today: Parsing China’s economic data, oil industry consolidation, and a new paper sheds light on the vulnerability of the Chinese real-estate market.
On the menu today: investors betting on a strong recovery, ESG everywhere, and Big Tech antitrust.
On the menu today: a SPAC ETF, Congress debates another round of stimulus, and Donald Kendall, R.I.P.
On the menu today: Wall Street braces itself for November, trouble in commercial real estate, and a look at exponential-growth bias.
On the menu today: semiconductors, social distancing & scientific stagnation.
On the menu today: the unraveling of LVMH’s Tiffany acquisition, the tech selloff, and the economics of the Olympics.
Big-tech stocks are selling off, Euro Zone retail sales, around the web, ESG investing, and more.
On the menu today: dollar weakness, lumber strength, and a look at John Law’s Mississippi bubble.
On the menu today: election drama, Mick Mulvaney’s new venture, and another Japanese prime minister resigns.
California Taxes, Corporatism in Japan, Adam Smith, and more.
Dollar dominance, euro strength, Japan’s Phillips curve, and more.
A darker side to today’s encouraging jobs numbers, Ben Meng resigns as CalPERs CIO, and more.
Argentine debt, pension deficits, a case study in human capital, and more.