Trader’s Narrative

Executive compensation is one of the glaring issues at the heart of the financial crisis. We haven’t even come close to dealing with it in a meaningful way as the powerful Wall St. lobby moved quickly to throw obstacles in the path of any regulation or even discussion of the matter.
The most common argument that […]

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This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US department of energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of […]

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Man does not live by bread alone.

And neither is the US stock market the only market out there.
But we usually tend to act as if it was the only one that counts. One of the many lessons I […]

In case you didn’t catch this, a curious exchange occurred way back on July 18th, 2008 on Google’s finance messageboard. It was not unlike the usual chatter that you are likely to read in this corner of the internet, full of mysterious innuendo, bold predictions and anonymity. But what made it stand out from the […]

There are just a few days left until we know who the next President of the USA will be. Here are two aggregations of multiple polls:

FiveThirtyEight is a relatively new site which has gained a lot of attention because of their methodology. They assign each poll a weight based on its historical track record, the […]