Nationalization: A slight detour from the Free Market
Wednesday, 18 February 2009 | 1:17 pm
Certain industries simply need to be nationalized. But for different reasons. Industries such as the auto industry, which is dominated by a handful of large companies and which employ large numbers of people, need to be nationalized simply to stem the lay offs. These industries are no longer viable in size but an instantaneous
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So tell me one thing…
Tuesday, 17 February 2009 | 8:55 am
As Asian consumers were saving and US consumers were spending, and the current accounts got all imbalanced, and also the capital accounts (as they must do if the current account is imbalanced), what were the US investing in with all that foreign capital?
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The Paradox of Thrift
Tuesday, 17 February 2009 | 8:37 am
There are many ways of looking at a situation, and how we look at a situation provides us with particular insights into specific aspects of a situation. Take the current credit crisis. We could look at it from the point of view of the financial markets, the banking industry, the real economy, and so on.
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Hedge Fund Strategy Spotlight: Equity Long Short:
Friday, 13 February 2009 | 2:15 pm
This is the first of a series of Strategy Spotlights which will describe as simply as possible, certain popular hedge fund strategies. The content will be amended and added to from time to time and eventually the whole series will be uploaded to a perpetual part of this site as a reference guide.
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Hedge Fund Fees: Its not the magnitude but the design
Friday, 13 February 2009 | 12:00 am
Hedge funds have been accused of charging extortionate fees. The typical hedge fund charges what they call 2 and 20 fees by which is meant that there is a 2% management fee charged on the total assets managed and a 20% performance fee in the form of a share of profits. The management fee is
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