Research in recent years has shown how important and ingrained notions of fairness are. Spain’s protesters, and those in other countries, are right to be indignant: here is a system in which the bankers got bailed out, while those whom they preyed…
By guest contributor Ed Easterling
May 17, 2011
There is a skeptical gremlin perched on the left shoulder for many investors. He often sneers at notions of “cycles” and other presumably predictable periods. When the word “secular” accompanies t…
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This is an odd interview, and I believe that Lira’s ideas are not as original as he thinks, but the notions put forth–what he calls the Lira Principle–are still of some importance.
From the Christian Science Monitor…
Some years back, Yale Professor Robert Shiller produced a long-run nominal home price index for the U.S. by fusing together data that had been gathered from a number of historical archives.
Shiller then adjuste…
Of course, there are no simple solutions.
“There’s a widespread belief that the U.S. economy is going to grow vigorously, that Europe will solve its problems, and that emerging markets will propel a global recovery in the year ahead. Over the nea…
