Musings on Markets

A couple of posts ago, I presented six examples of risk hedging/ taking that I would like to take through my three bucket test - risk to pas...

Time to take a break from pontificating and navel gazing. While there is much to worry about and anguish over, there is so much more to be t...

There is a news story in the New York Times today about Asian airlines and the losses that they are facing because of put options that they ...

Yesterday's Financial Times had this headline: "Citi plans good bank, bad bank structure". In effect, Citi plan to separate al...

The last few weeks have seen their share of the strange and the unusual. Last Wednesday, another milestone was reached. The dividend yield o...

All this talk about a federal bailout of GM and Ford has started me thinking about something that has always bothered me. There are some bus...

I was in Las Vegas yesterday, staying at the Bellagio. As I walked through the casino floor to get to the convention center, where I was del...