As I’m not a homeowner I don’t really pay attention to articles about foreclosures, or specifics about real estate. But a recent change in my life means I may be in the market in the near future. So the headlines have started to grab my attention. The Washington Post recently ran an article about short [...]

The financial crisis and resulting new regulations are focused around Wall Street as a a whole, but there are specific regulations designed to curb the appetite for risk investors seem to have unlimited supplies of. Derivatives are going to be more highly regulated as investment tools now, though they were already regulated before. The purpose [...]

I had a post scheduled, but I didn’t tell it to publish.  It will publish tomorrow.  My apologies again.

In the wake of the financial crisis, HGTV got caught in the cross-hairs of being one of many triggers of the housing bubble. The channel was a frequent guest on articles with titles like “10 causes for the bubble you’d never thought of” which honestly sounds like a headline I’d come up with. In the [...]

Tired of extremist rallies and protests in Washington? Tired of being yelled at by left and right wingers? Tired of being a moderate but being forced to vote for one way or another because the loud minority gets their way? Just plain tired and don’t have time to do a rally? Well I have the [...]

According to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the recession ended in June of 2009, but they just got around to announcing it this week. But the headlines and articles that followed focused all too much on the fact that it doesn’t feel like we’re out of a recession. Cripe these people will never [...]

Every once in a while I run into an article, news item, or even tweet that makes me really consider working in academia.  The research some people do is really eye opening.  I feel connected to anything that better explains humans and their behavior. The Economist gets credit this time for pointing me towards a [...]

Mmmmm Basel. Great in so many dishes right? Oh, that’s basil. Basel (pronounced like “bahh” humbug “zull”) is an international guideline designed by central banks and rolled out to commercial banks over time. Among many guidelines set in Basel is something called Tier 1 capital. Tier 1 capital is a constraint on banks that basically [...]