More stocks can’t be shorted at all
This is an interesting development, because the list of companies that can’t be shorted is expanding into companies outside the financial sector…
Complex financial markets need regulation
We have written a piece about how market fundamentalism led to under-regulated asset markets (especially when financial products are complex and the dangers of opportunistically exploiting information asymmetries are rife), […]
A Primer on Peak Oil
A nice article people send us serves as a primer on the so called ‘peak oil’ theory, the theory that soon, world oil production will reach it’s peak, and then […]
Are those new anti-naked short rules effective?
The short answer is, it all depends. Not everybody things the new crackdown will be effective. Some opinions..
The end of American capitalism? The ‘visible handshake’ sometimes trumps the ‘invisible hand’
We wrote an earlier piece on July 17 called Socialism for the rich (Jim Rogers and Nouriel Roubini later came with the similar terminology). Some people are indeed worried that […]
Some implications of the new short rules
We try to make sense of them..
Will the commodity bull run return?
This is becoming more likely. Why? Because in the unprecedented actions that central banks everywhere, and more especially America’s Fed (or ‘sovereign wealth Fed’, as it’s jokingly called now) will […]
China props up its stockmarket
Could now be the time to buy?
Summary of the new landscape
Levelling the playing field in rapid fashion. Let’s summarize.