The Institutional Risk Analyst

"Al", retired Wells Fargo stagecoach pony New York | Wall Street more than bounced last week as the secular shortage of stocks quickly...

New York | In this issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, we turn our attention to the auto sector. Kevin Tynan is the Senior...

“Across the globe, investors have one thing in mind. How far will interest rates rise and is the great bull market in bonds finally...

Richard Cordray and Mick Mulvaney New York | It’s a strange time in the housing market. Home price increases have been running above the...

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

“To exactly solve the problem of corruption, we must hit both flies and tigers” Xi Jinping New York | In December this past year, Chinese...

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

Justice Louis D. Brandeis Time Magazine, July 7, 1930 This week in The Institutional Risk Analyst, we feature a blog post by Christopher...

To read our post in The American Conservative on the growing bitcoin fraud, see the link at the end of this issue. Happy holidays! The US...

In this issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, let’s first ponder last week’s revelations that the European Central Bank is taking a...

Palm Beach | We think 2017 will be remembered as the Year of the Bubbles. Everywhere you look, whether its stocks or real estate or even...

Atlanta | Is a conundrum worse than a dilemma? One of the more important and least discussed factors affecting the financial markets is...

New York | The term “Greenspan Put” was coined after the stock market crash of 1987 and the subsequent bailout of Long Term Capital...

Trump Pavilion from the Van Wyck Expressway New York | Q: Besides stocks, what asset class has benefitted the most from the radical...

President Donald Trump just completed a relatively upbeat swing through Asia, but made some ominous references to future trade action in...

Writing this week in Barron’s, Harvard economist Martin Feldstein nails the proverbial issue of excessive debt square on when he notes...

New York | During our travels over the past two weeks, we tried to keep up with the financial press, particularly the growing sense of...

Tomás de Torquemada (1420-1498) “Assassins Creed” Denver | This week The Institutional Risk Analyst is in Rocky Mountain country for the...

The Hague | Almost as soon as it started, the excitement surrounding earnings for financials in Q3 2017 dissipated like air leaving a...

Happy Columbus Day! Last week financials continued their relentless march toward the sky as investors chased the happy prospect of higher...