Do Central Bankers Care About Rising House Prices?
Send us a textWhy don’t central bankers care about rising asset prices?For most people their greatest expense is housing. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans spend almost 40% of the...
26 Aug 202116min
Should Politicians Trade Stocks? Congressional Insider Trading
Send us a textInsider trading, or the act of buying or selling investments based on nonpublic information, is against the law in the United States and in most countries. At its core, insider trading b...
17 Aug 20218min
Sinner or Saint - ESG Investing vs. Vice Investing
Send us a textESG (or environmental, social and governance) investing is one of the hottest things in markets right now, with large fund managers competing to be seen to take ESG more seriously than t...
10 Aug 202111min
Insider Trading on The Dark Web
Send us a textApostolos Trovias was recently arrested in Peru and charged by the SEC with perpetrating a fraudulent scheme to sell what he called "insider trading tips" on the Dark Web. According to t...
3 Aug 20218min
Consumer Protections in Crypto Investing
Send us a textLast week Janet Yellen called for rapid action to ensure there is an appropriate US regulatory framework in place for crypto-assets. A month ago the Basel Committee on Banking Supervisio...
27 Juli 20219min
When Pubs Briefly Replaced Banks in Ireland
Send us a textToday we are going to discuss the Irish Banking Strike of 1970 when all of the countries clearing banks closed for over six months, only to find themselves quickly replaced by local pubs...
21 Juli 202122min
The First SPAC on The Moon!
Send us a textSEC Charges Stable Road SPAC and Space Startup Momentus with Misleading Claims.The SEC announced on Tuesday that it charged blank-check company Stable Road Acquisition Corp (SRAC.O), its...
15 Juli 202110min
Should Companies Make Political Donations?
Send us a textCompanies across major sectors of the market are reassessing political donations in response to the January 6th storming of the U.S. Capitol, but it is too soon to know whether it leads ...
10 Juli 202116min
