by Linda Beale Duffie on speculative trading (Part one of a series) In today’s Wall St. Journal, Darrell Duffie, a finance professor at Stanford’s business school, argues “In Defense of…

Robert Waldmann One of Keynes’ concepts which never made any sense to me was the idea that there is speculative demand for money. As far as I could tell, it…

…. . . Recent Quartz article on Private Label and Brand name. Private-label brands are having a moment in 2024, and it’s no coincidence that some of the biggest winners…

by cactus Forbes and the “Self-Made” Label I’m kinda busy these days, but this topic is small pet peeve of mine: what the heck is up with Forbes and the…

…trading which is known to be type 4 trading. Obviously not everyone is rational (who ever thought everyone was). In particular, there is a group which keeps writing papers which…

…have to submit articles.” Off-label use of drugs is big business. According to The Wall Street Journal, “[FDA] is stepping into a high-stakes business issue, because off-label uses of prescription…

Is Bitcoin A Speculative Bubble? There are at least two definitions of a speculative bubble. The first, and most widely accepted, is that it involves a price of an asset…

…turnaround has been sudden — oil hit an 18-month high of $87.15 a barrel during trading on May 3. The plunge in oil extended to the New York Stock Exchange,…

…unreasonable cases, but if it is reasonable that the off-label use of the drug might have caused the damage, then the encouraged off-label use would lead to an assumption of…

…panelists also seemed reluctant to define themselves as high frequency traders. Adam Nunes of Hudson River Trading, said his firm, founded by mathematicians, considered itself a “quantitative trading” outfit…. It…