Posted in Economy, Financial Markets, Media, Stockmarket, tagged CNBC, Economy, financial media, Global Economy, Global Recession, US Economy on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you were watching CNBC or even follow MSNBC, you would have noticed this idiotic rant from one of CNBC’s so called market analysts.
Earlier we had Jim Cramer had a similar rant.
Notice how in the earlier instance, jim cramer was ranting about Ben Bernanke was doing all [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ascent of money, Economy, Finance, money, PBS, the ascent of money on January 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is interesting program on PBS.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ascentofmoney/featured/watch-full-program-the-ascent-of-money/24/
Posted in Economy, Financial Markets, Incidental-musing, Investment, Stockmarket, tagged Economy, financial institutions, Financial Markets, Global Economy, Interesting books, risk, US Economy on January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is the link to an informative article on nytimes, detailing the genesis and circumstances associated with the quantification of risk in a portfolio.
The book mentioned at the beginning of the article “Against the gods” is a part of a series of excellent books by Peter L Bernstein: Capital Ideas, Against the gods and The [...]
Posted in Economy, Financial Markets, Stockmarket, tagged Ben Bernanke, Economy, FED, US Economy on June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a link to an article on FT where FED’s tough position is explained.
We discussed this some time back.
Posted in Economy, Financial Markets, Investment, Stockmarket, Thought-Trails, tagged competing global currencies, Economy, future inflation in commodities, global economic landscape, inflection point on May 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I call this an inflection point because, there are certain factors that have come into play which were not around the last time we had a recession, especially financial sector recession.
1. Competitive global economic landscape.
2. Future inflation in commodities.
3. Competing global currencies.
This is not a very late call about, emerging economies, rising oil and falling [...]
