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By: R. Christopher Whalen

Aug 8, 20195 min read

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...

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By: R. Christopher Whalen

Jul 7, 20196 min read

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...

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By: R. Christopher Whalen

Feb 18, 20197 min read

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...

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By: R. Christopher Whalen

Oct 28, 20187 min read

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...

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By: R. Christopher Whalen

Aug 14, 20185 min read

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...

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By: R. Christopher Whalen

Jan 25, 20185 min read

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. ...

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By: R. Christopher Whalen

Jan 7, 20187 min read

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...

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By: R. Christopher Whalen

Jun 11, 20176 min read

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...

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By: R. Christopher Whalen

May 3, 20173 min read

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...

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