Musings on Markets

There seems to be consensus that conventional economic models did a poor job predicting the magnitude of the last crisis and that we need to...

As many of you are aware, the last week has been filled with news stories about imminent arrests in an insider trading scandal that suppose...

The GM IPO is the news of the week. The fact that GM has been able to go public and that the government may not only get its money back on i...

This post spans two topics I love - finance and sports- and what triggered it was the hullabaloo over Cam Newton, Auburn's quarterback, ...

I know that there are many who claim to have found the secret ingredient to investment success, though few actually deliver. However, I want...

The big news of the moment (other than the election) is the Fed's decision to inject $ 600 billion into the economy, as a monetary stimu...

I just read this article, where Nassim Taleb, who seems to have taken on the mantle of the "anti-theorist" in finance, argues that...