Finally, Lower Bail For Bonds
It only took a few decades, but at long last, price transparency is coming to the bond market. You see, for years, if you bought a stock,...
About Those "Bad Trade Deals"- Part II
As regular readers know, I've been wondering about the "why now?" phenomenon as the country wrings its hands over the loss of...
Physical Retail's Long Shadow
An article I posted on my LinkedIn timeline from National Mortgage News entitled "Macy's Store Closings to Hit $3.64B of CMBS”...
Polluting Economics With Politics
I'm hardly the first one to mention this, but in a politically charged environment that seems to want to reject empirical evidence at all...
How FINRA Profits From Exploited Investors
As I've noted before, FINRA will allow a broker with a 20 year long record of infractions, misdeeds and fraudulent behavior to continue...
Exploring Tax Cut Myths
One of the more contentious- and misrepresented – issues in American politics is the role of taxation on the economy. As with most...
Towards A New Understanding of Economic Data
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L....
Straight Talk On "Free Trade"
There's been a lot of talk about "free trade," or more accurately, cross border trade, in this election cycle, and as a card carrying...
More FINRA Follies
A few more examples of FINRA's army of miscreants have come my way, and if they were not so ruinous for the investors who lost money with...
Regulation and Its Discontents
"The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know." - Harry S. Truman I happen to follow a New York Times feed on my...
