Tag: Columns
Trump’s interest-rate crusade will be self-defeating
There are two ways, the world’s central bankers learned at this year’s Jackson Hole conference, to tame a horse. You can break the...
Why you should buy your employer’s shares
It is not hard to see why Jamie Dimon owns a lot of shares in JPMorgan Chase. He is the bank’s boss and...
Economists disagree about everything. Don’t they?
When President Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, America’s labour statistician, he achieved something supposedly rare: he got economists to unite. In a survey...
In praise of complicated investing strategies
Occam’s Razor is a cornerstone of the social sciences, and for financial economists it is almost an article of faith. The principle is...
What 630,000 paintings say about the world economy
Artists are the unacknowledged economists of the world
An economist’s guide to big life decisions
Forget your trip to the dentist. A new check-up is required
Want better returns? Forget risk. Focus on fear
A recent study suggests a new paradigm for asset pricing
Japan’s dealmaking machine revs up
The corporate raiders of the private-equity (PE) industry have been memorably compared to invading barbarians. But the industry is more usefully described as...
Why 24/7 trading is a bad idea
Stock exchanges are the quaintest corners of modern finance. At other financial institutions, the typical trading floor features people in t-shirts sat at...
