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- Resources April 2007
- My thanks to the many readers who pointed out that the website for ordering the ...
- One of my favorite popular historians is H. W. Brands of the University of Texas. ...
- Fed Governor Randall Kroszner gave an elegant little (four pages of text) talk ...
- ANDREW MELLON WAS RIGHT
(even if he didn't say what they say he said)
"Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up from less competent people."...keep reading
- Sic Transit Gloria Ursi
Since this newsletter was written about 20 days before you're seeing it, I suppose it is theoretically possible that the stock market will have recorded significant new lows in the interim. It does not seem probable. Rather, I anticipate that Labor Day will have marked the end of the fifth full month since the markets made their cyclical (and, I believe, historic) lows amid spectacular, high-volume capitulation....keep reading
- Ask Nick December 2005
Q:The keynote speaker at a recent risk management training session given by ...
A: Managing clients' proclivity to panic is indeed one of the key functions of the ...Q: You must realize that all the straight-out-of-the-can asset allocation models...
A: A reasoned and thoughtful investment policy statement, in which the client ...Q: You were certainly very down on developed Europe in your recent comments. ...
A: Not at all. All properly diversified equity portfolios should always have ...Q: Regarding energy, I've read The Prize and Titan over the last year. Wondered ...
A: If it's any help, I looked at a synopsis of the book, from which I infer that it ......keep reading
- Proclaiming a New National Holiday Exclusively for NMI Subscribers
I, your intrepid editor, judge the subscribers to this newsletter to have reached such a critical mass in terms of sheer numbers, and such a pitch of True Belief in terms of commitment, that it is time we had our own national holiday...keep reading
- Ask Nick April 2005
Ask Nick...keep reading
- Resources August 2005
Resources...keep reading
- Squibs August 2010
Walter Russell Mead,Nancy Pelosi, Nick Murray,Jimmy Carter...keep reading
- The End of the Bond Bubble?
In two previous newsletter essays this year with the same title--"The Risk Is In Bonds"--I've tried to communicate three related ideas....keep reading
- The Persistence of Pessimism: Time After TIME
"Double dip is not a term that a government keen to extricate itself from the economic-crisis-management business likes to hear. A couple of weeks ago, the Obama Administration was poised to switch to growth mode....keep reading
- The Economy, Taxes, Inflation and Interest Rates:
Where We Are Now…Really
On May 9th, amid a chorus of blathering talking heads predicting - of all things - a pause in Fed rate hikes, the Federal Reserve raised its funds rate a quarter of a point, to 5%. Over the following hours and days, gold shot through $700 an ounce, the dollar swooned further, and the stock market cracked....keep reading
- Resources June 2007
- Longtime subscriber David Tofel, who lives and works in Erie, PA, had the ...
- In just about every financial periodical you look at, you've recently seen ...
- Every once in a great while, you come across an article or an essay that you ...
- While we're on the subject of essays that one wishes might become books -- a ...
- Also speaking of oil, there was a wonderful article on ExxonMobil in the...
- You not only want to read but send to your clients Bernanke's May 1 speech to ...
- If I can't get you to read my guy Ray Kurzweil's book The Singularity Is Near, at ...
- You read it here first: the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal on May 9 ...
- I've been very fortunate this year to get to know the Canadian academic Moshe ...
- Ask Nick August 2002
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- Squibs April 2009
Charles P. Kindleberger, Thomas A. Edison...keep reading
- Junk Journalism Alert
(1) Unemployment, the economy and the stock market. Journalism got its collective knickers in a twist in early May when the previous month's unemployment figures were released....keep reading
- Squibs August 2009
Brian Wesbury, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson...keep reading
- Ask Nick February 2005
Ask Nick...keep reading
- Where Have All The Good Guys Gone?
The Rise and Rise of the Personal Financial Advisor
Wall Street as we knew it--the investment banking and brokerage paradigm--has ceased to exist. The banking industry has essentially lost all its capital; at two and three dollars, the stock prices of such entities as Citigroup and Bank of America are not so much valuations as they are call premiums....keep reading
- Resources September 2002
Resources...keep reading
- Squibs January 2006
Schelling, Dostoevsky...keep reading
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