Nouriel Roubini is the most prominent economist to warn that a double-dip recession would be a distinct possibility if economic policy-makers return to policy normalization too quickly.  Now, Stephen Roach, head of Morgan Stanley Asia, is making similar arguments. 
Roach was on Bloomberg Radio’s show Bloomberg Surveillance with Tom Keene and Ken Pruitt yesterday, where [...]

The Chinese are getting serious about addressing overcapacity that has developed in industry, according to statements released by the state press. This should be seen as a positive development given concerns about a bubble in property and shares and stories of malinvestment related to China’s attempts to reach lofty growth targets.
 China’s State Council said yesterday [...]

Below is a video released by the Kauffman Foundation about bloggers in the econ and finance space.  The video shows that our space is really catching on and garnering ever more readership and credibility.
This clip runs about 20 minutes and features Tyler Cowen and Mark Thoma, two well-known academics who also have top economic [...]

I intended to write this post about high frequency trading. The idea was to link to a very enlightening podcast that aired yesterday on “Taking Stock” with Pimm Fox on Bloomberg Radio. Tyler Durden of Zero Hedge was on the program talking to Pimm about what High Frequency Trading is, who the participants are and [...]

In the video below, William Black, a well-known Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri – Kansas City and former top regulator at of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board during the S&L crisis, holds court.
His basic premise: the bailouts have been a massive transfer of wealth from the middle class [...]

Many economic prognosticators believe Chinese consumption growth is key to a global economic recovery.  The US consumer, who had been the buyer of first and last resort during the bubble years, is tapped out and indebted.  The new engine of global growth must come from elsewhere.
On Friday, BBC Radio 4 released a broadcast called “Selling [...]

This new period of boom-bust makes for some very strange bedfellows.  Below is the video of Henry Blodget, the former Oppenheimer and Merrill Lynch Technology analyst, talking to Eliot Spitzer, the former New York attorney general who chased him out of the securities industry.
Both men have suffered major reputational damage and are trying hard to [...]

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Update: These clips have sadly been removed from YouTube.
Clips from the 1987 PBS Film called Trader featuring famed investor Paul Tudor Jones are catching everyone’s imagination all of a sudden.  Is it that we are all secretly worried about a sock market crash?  Who knows.  It’s entertaining nonetheless and is a good piece of financial [...]

This is part two of the End of Wall Street series the Wall Street Journal is producing.
Chapter Two of A WSJ series: What was going through the minds of CEOs, corporate boards, fund managers and mortgage lenders as they created hard-to-understand derivatives Warren Buffett once called “weapons of financial mass destruction.”
You have to love how [...]