Charlatans, Imbeciles and Fed Governors
Q: What is the duration of a security with a negative yield? Hold that thought. Noted financial author Nassim Nicholas Taleb has little...
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The Institutional Risk Analyst
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Jul 7, 20196 min
Entropy, Volatility and Deflation
New York | This week in The Institutional Risk Analyst, we return to the activities of funds operating in the world of distressed real...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Feb 18, 20197 min
The Trade: Sell Servicing, Buy a Bank
Washington | Consider the irony of the American housing sector. In the District of Columbia, various pundits, market retreads and...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Oct 28, 20187 min
Volcker Rebukes Bernanke and Yellen
New York | In his new book, “Keeping At It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government,” by Paul Volcker (1979-1987) with Christine...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Feb 4, 20187 min
Chair Yellen Spills the Punch Bowl
“Across the globe, investors have one thing in mind. How far will interest rates rise and is the great bull market in bonds finally...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Jan 25, 20185 min
Dollars, Deficits and "Duh" in Davos
New York | With the global punditry assembled in Davos this week, the topic of the dollar seems to have bubbled to the surface again. ...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Jan 7, 20187 min
Bank Earnings & Volatility
Tyler Durden, "Fight Club" (1999) Punta del Este | Last week our comrade at Zero Hedge astutely noted that, in the October 2012 FOMC...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Nov 26, 20176 min
The Yellen Put
New York | The term “Greenspan Put” was coined after the stock market crash of 1987 and the subsequent bailout of Long Term Capital...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Sep 25, 20175 min
Citigroup: Expanding Multiples, Flat Margins
New York | We start the week in downtown Manhattan with a presentation to the International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers in...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Jun 11, 20176 min
One & Done: Fed Rate Hikes End in June
“Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." Irving Fisher October 1929 This Thursday The IRA’s Christopher...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Apr 6, 20176 min
Q1 '17 Earnings & the Yellen Recession
JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) boss Jamie Dimon says there’s something wrong with the US economy and he is obviously right. Here’s our short list:...
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