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The GameStop Saga and the Incoherent Politics of the Stock Market Republicans have long encouraged stock ownership in the belief that it will turn Americans conservative, but does the evidence bear that out? Spencer Platt/Getty Images The recent furor regarding speculation in the stock of GameStop—which soared far beyond its fundamental value, due to a technique known as a short squeeze—has focused attention on the nature of the stock market and what it means both politically and economical...

Buttonwood Few manage to profitably outwit the herd H ERE IS A sage piece of investment advice you might not usually find in any tip-sheet, newsletter or “thoughtful” weekly column on capital markets. It comes from Will Rogers, a popular entertainer and wit of interwar America, via the writings of Paul Samuelson, a Nobel prizewinning economist and wit of post-war America. Are you ready? Here it is. You should buy stocks when they are going to go up. When they are going to go down, you shoul...

Vanguard News Next year in Jerusalem Can you prove the existence of God?” Bismarck was supposed to have replied: “ The Jews, your majesty. The Jews.”   The return of the Jews to the Land of Promise after 2000 years of dispersal is a miracle of our times. Hebrew, a virtually dead language, has been resuscitated. It is the national lingua franca. The Jewish genius has continued to astonish the world. Nearly 70 percent of all science Nobel laureates are Jewish. They include such legendary n...

VOICEOVER: This is Masters in Business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio. RITHOLTZ: This week on the podcast, I have a special guest. His name is Andrew Beer, has really a fascinating background and career in finance. He is a managing member at Dynamic Beta Investments which is one of the oldest firms doing liquid alternatives, really quite fascinating. Their goal is to roll out things that look like hedge funds but with full transparency, liquidity, and none of the high fees. It’s reall...

Share The German Kaiser once asked his Chancellor, Otto Von Bismarck:“Can you prove the existence of God?”Bismarck was supposed to have replied: “The Jews, your majesty. The Jews.”The return of the Jews to the Land of Promise after 2000 years of dispersal is a miracle of our times. Hebrew, a virtually dead language, has been resuscitated. It is the national lingua franca. The Jewish genius has continued to astonish the world. Nearly 70 percent of all science Nobel laureates are Jewish. ...

Welcome to the Capital Note, a newsletter about business, finance, and economics. On the menu today: Biden’s economic plan, Yellen’s debt dilemma, and deficits in a zero-interest-rate world. CARES Act Redux We ran an editorial this morning on Biden’s stimulus plan, which looks more like a structural economic-reform package than an emergency-spending bill. The proposal ...

Missing voluntary exchanges January 15, 2021 LAHORE: For all the globally known economists, who support the free market, any solutions proposed by the government to a problem are usually as bad as the problem itself. A few years back, tyre manufacturers convinced the custom officials that tyre importers are heavily under-invoicing their imports. The actual solution was to fix the import tariff price to actual level (that could be verified through the internet on exports of the same tyres expo...

An investor looks at a display showing stock market movements at a securities company in Beijing. Stock Market Volatility Is Not a Harbinger of Collapsing Growth September 15, 2015 By Shang-jin Wei, the chief economist at the Asian Development Bank. This article was first published by Caixin. It would be a sad end to an amazing story. An economic miracle—one that lifted 300 million people from poverty and shifted the worlds economic center of gravity—collapsing under the weight of risky in...

Trading today might be like watching beige paint dry. But after a year like 2020, that may be just how some would like it. As you might expect during a holiday-shortened week, trading volumes in stocks in each of the three main U.S. indices were lower than average yesterday. That might also be the case today as it’s the last trading day of the year and many investors and traders have likely closed the books on 2020. There’s also not too much on the economic calendar aside from this morning�...

Macroeconomic textbooks are replete with examples. We saw this play out between President Donald Trump and the US Federal Reserve, and former finance minister P Chidambaram and Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Yes, on rare occasions, as during the 2008 crisis and during 2020, when pandemic-induced restrictions virtually brought economic activity to a standstill, both do work together.