The Institutional Risk Analyst

Q: What is the duration of a security with a negative yield? Hold that thought. Noted financial author Nassim Nicholas Taleb has little...

New York | This week in The Institutional Risk Analyst, we return to the activities of funds operating in the world of distressed real...

Washington | Consider the irony of the American housing sector. In the District of Columbia, various pundits, market retreads and...

New York | In his new book, “Keeping At It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government,” by Paul Volcker (1979-1987) with Christine...

By any standard, credit spreads in the US bond and loan markets remain very tight. Now several years into a Fed interest rate tightening...

New York | With the global punditry assembled in Davos this week, the topic of the dollar seems to have bubbled to the surface again. ...

Tyler Durden, "Fight Club" (1999) Punta del Este | Last week our comrade at Zero Hedge astutely noted that, in the October 2012 FOMC...

“Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." Irving Fisher October 1929 This Thursday The IRA’s Christopher Whalen will be in Washington to participate in an event at Cato Institute, “Financial Crisis and Reform," We'll talk with Cato's Ike Brannon about whether enough has been done to “fix” the problem, real or imagined, with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The question posed by the title of the Cato Institute panel suggests that Washington has th