psychology

The gist of the conversation we had on Business News Network on Tuesday was that the data coming out of the U.S. ahead of the President's State of the Union address was conflicting. Housing was dreadful, but consumer confidence was up;…

By William K. Black (cross-posted from Benzinga.com) When Reputation becomes Ineffective or even Perverse Control fraud also makes reputation perverse. Theoclassical economists predict that reputation trumps everything, even auditors'…

By Rick Bookstaber (A cross post by Rick Bookstaber which originally appeared at rick.bookstaber.com.) The following reflects my views and not those of the SEC or its staff. Where will Facebook be in ten or fifteen years? In our…

We are now seeing almost all our sell signals go off and we recommend clients hedge portfolios and reduce market exposure. We have advised clients in the past to hedge their portfolios and reduce exposure when all our sell signals have gone…

The recent sequence of reassurances from various eurozone policymakers suggests we are in the early, not latter, stages of the euro crisis. Only an Anglo-Saxon style QE will prevent dissolution of the euro. Such a radically un-German…

By Vedran Vuk A friend of mine met an interesting real estate investor recently. The guy claimed that he escaped the entire market crash relatively unscathed. At first, I didn’t really believe it, but his strategy made a lot of sense. I…

I thought this chart on the upcoming US midterm elections was interesting because independents are tracking Republicans very closely while Democrats are living in a different world regarding Congress. Here is what Gallup says:…

This is from Gallup: Overall, 46% of Americans believe the federal government "poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens," little changed from the prior reading in 2006. However, during that…

The chart below is from today's morning Breakfast with Dave missive by Gluskin Sheff's David Rosenberg. How do you fight against losses this large? Like Richard Koo and David Rosenberg, I believe the monumental hit that balance sheets of…

Kay-Yut Chen and Marina Krakovsky have earned their colours as behavioural economists at Hewlett Packard in the HP Labs and in in their new book Secrets of the Moneylab  they present the gist of their research over the past 20 years.…