Weird stuff in high frequency markets Unknown 01:53 Add Comment Unknown On the left is a graph from a really neat paper, “Low-Latency Trading” by Joel Hasbrouck and Gideon Saar (2011). You’re...
Hope for Europe Unknown 12:36 Add Comment Unknown A provocative Wall Street Journal OpEd by Donald Luskin and Lorcan Kelly gives me hope for Europe.No, I’m not talking about...
Taylor on Lehman and TARP Unknown 06:45 Add Comment Unknown John Taylor took the trouble to respond to Paul Krugman’s latest outrage on the sources of the financial crisis. Taylor’s...
Fed Independence 2025 Unknown 00:55 Add Comment Unknown Headline: The Fed just forced mortgage servicers that got caught submitting “documents that were not properly...
Where your money goes Unknown 21:51 Add Comment Unknown Two nice graphs from the New York Times Comment: Now, could we please stop talking about how we need more taxes to...
Wallison on financial regulation Unknown 00:17 Add Comment Unknown Peter Wallison has an important Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal last week (AEI link) titled “Dodd-Frank and the...
The Real Trouble With the Birth-Control Mandate Unknown 11:01 Add Comment Unknown (This is a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed. If you don’t subscribe, there is a pdf on my webpage.)When the administration affirmed...
Taylor's graphs Unknown 02:06 Add Comment Unknown John Taylor wrote a very nice blog post, “Reassessing the recovery”. He made two graphs, reproduced here. On the top you...
Sargent on debt and defaults Unknown 07:22 Add Comment Unknown Tom Sargent’s Wall Street Journal oped is well worth reading closely. It’s a very short summary of his Nobel prize speechAs...
Negative stimulus, 1946 Unknown 10:30 Add Comment Unknown I ran across a fascinating article, “A Post-Mortem on Transition Predictions of National Product,” in the 1946 Journal...