As I sat with a client recently, we discussed the knee-jerk reactions that occurred in the wake of the presidential election. First, the world markets were down heavily overnight, but on the following day, once the US trading...
Read MoreRarely do things play out as planned. When we started 2016, people weren’t expecting Brexit, people weren’t expecting Trump, and to some degree, many people weren’t expecting the Fed to raise interest rates.What was...
Read MoreIn the 1983 American comedy film, Trading Places, an upper-class commodities broker, Louis Winthorp III – played by Dan Aykroyd – and a homeless street hustler, Billy Ray Valentine – played by Eddie...
Read MoreI was in San Diego recently, attending a conference. My wife and I decided to hang around a few extra days to enjoy the city and relax a little bit. We spent one of those days at La Jolla Shores, a small beach community that...
Read MoreBack in the mid-2000s, a friend of mine was a trader at a small hedge fund firm. This firm had completed a great deal of analysis at the time, and identified the sub-prime lending issues that eventually came to a head in 2008,...
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