Wall Street Currents

NAFTA Rejoinder: The US Effects Are Clearly Positive for Most Workers (Part II) - The Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) is challenging an op-ed in the *Financial Times* by Adam S. Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for...

An Overview of SPIVA® Europe - Over three-quarters of actively managed Eurozone equity funds underperformed their benchmarks in 2013 – find out more.

Surviving the Global Pension Crisis - [image: Global Pension Crisis: Unfunded Liabilities and How We Can Fill the Gap]The US$100 trillion global retirement savings shortfall is the megatrend th...

Can Municipal Bonds Shed Some Light on China’s Public Finances? - Guangdong province’s novel bond issue injects some transparency into local government finance, and may herald a big new investment opportunity.

Big Banks Shift to Lower Gear - For today’s Outside the Box, good friend Gary Shilling has sent along a very interesting analysis of the big banks. Gary knows a lot about what went down w...

Finance and the Art of Sustainable Development - The financial community needs to take five key steps to address the global macroeconomic needs of the 21st century.

Alternative Links: Let’s Talk Trend Following - What's making headlines in the Alternative space this week

Research Insight - Managing the Unique Risks of Leverage with the Barra Optimizer - July 2014 - Jacobs and Levy recently published a series of papers on “leverage aversion” and the benefits of incorporating it in the traditional Markowitz Mean-Varia...

Can large primary surpluses solve Europe’s debt problem? - For the debts of European countries to be sustainable, their governments will have to run large primary budget surpluses. But there are both political and ...

Practice makes permanent - Preparation is an essential component of an athlete’s life in order to perform under the pressures of competition. I believe this should also be the case f...

Could Half of Wall Street Already Be in The Hamptons? - The post Could Half of Wall Street Already Be in The Hamptons? appeared first on 361 Capital.

Week Ahead Magazine: July 27, 2014 - Except for the pullback in the equity markets on Friday, this past week was pretty uneventful. I guess I should say uneventful except for small cap stock i...

VIX Last Week – 7/27/2014 - VIX rose over 5% last week despite the S&P 500 being basically flat on the week. There could be some of that anticipation we see in VIX (as opposed to reac...

The Most Important Things To Understand About This Market Are… - This remains one of the most hated bull moves that I’ve seen in my career. Stocks have been running higher... [ Read More ]

Investment Advice from the Federal Reserve: Unusual, unwise and unseemly! - On July 15, Janet Yellen made news with her semiannual policy testimony to Congress, with her views on interest rates, bubbles and the debt market. After m...

Redefining Value, so Even Google Makes the Cut - How Sound Shore Management has done well, even in sharp market corrections.

Company Notes Digest 7.25.14 - These are some of the top insights that I’ve gathered from this week’s earnings calls. Full notes can be found here. The Macro Outlook Construction. […]...

Yellen: Where No Man Has Gone Before - By: Peter Schiff Friday, July 25, 2014 Although Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen said nothing new in her carefully manicured semi-annual testimony to C...

Becoming More Alike? Comparing Bank and Federal Reserve Stress Test Results - Stress tests have become an important method of assessing whether financial institutions have enough capital to operate in bad economic conditions.

US Foreclosures drop 2% in June to Lowest Level Since June 2006 - RealtyTrac® released its Midyear 2014 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report™ on July 17th, which shows a total of 613,874 U.S. properties with foreclosure filing...

The Growing Use of MSCI's RiskMetrics RiskManager in the APAC Broker-Dealer Market - The Asia-Pacific (APAC) broker-dealer market has seen a significant transformation over the past ten years. With the liberization of markets has ...

Time To Do Less Not More - By: John Browne Friday, June 27, 2014 The current situation in Iraq is a modern tragedy. But in more practical terms it is a very stark illustrati...

Good Poker Players Aren't Lucky - An Idaho court rules that poker is a game of skill, not a game of chance like craps or roulette. If card players are lucky, maybe the Justice Department wi...

Economix Meets the Gales of Change - Economix is coming to an end, but it will be succeeded by The Upshot, a new politics, policy and economics site.

Friday Fun: Read the Fine Print - A Russian man didn’t like the terms offered to him by a local credit card company, so he took it upon himself to make them more favorable: But instead of r...