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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...
By: R. Christopher Whalen
Aug 8, 20195 min read
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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...
By: R. Christopher Whalen
Jul 7, 20196 min read
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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...
By: R. Christopher Whalen
Feb 18, 20197 min read
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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...
By: R. Christopher Whalen
Oct 28, 20187 min read
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Tight Money vs Tight Spreads
By any standard, credit spreads in the US bond and loan markets remain very tight. Now several years into a Fed interest rate tightening...
By: R. Christopher Whalen
Aug 14, 20185 min read
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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. ...
By: R. Christopher Whalen
Jan 25, 20185 min read
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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...
By: R. Christopher Whalen
Jan 7, 20187 min read
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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...
By: R. Christopher Whalen
Jun 11, 20176 min read
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Dollar SuperCycle Ends
What do the US residential housing market, the stock market and the dollar all have in common? All of these markets represent bubbles...
By: R. Christopher Whalen
May 3, 20173 min read
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