A Storm in a ‘Tea’ cup
Never resist the temptation to start a discussion with a pun. In our previous article we highlighted the ‘battle royal’ on Capitol Hill to get a proposal agreed to address the possibility of a US...
View ArticleThe US Treasury Yield Curves – Are the markets really that bothered?
Image via Wikipedia As a general introduction today we will look at two US Treasury Yield curves. The first Yield curve in the Curve graphic 1 below is the 3 Month bills compared to the 10 Year...
View ArticleThe US Treasury Yield Curves #2 – Do you factor inflation into the deal?
In the previous article we posted, mention was made of the (0.72)% [negative 0.72%] real return US Treasury investors can currently expect on 5 Year Treasury Bills. The Nominal (quoted) Yield Curves...
View ArticleA sigh of relief?
Some say that in life timing is everything… And so too it is with economics. We don’t yet have a fully developed and ‘mature’ [in terms of life-cycle] grasp of the impact of timing with leads and lags...
View ArticleUS Treasuries – An FX or a market call?
So it has finally happened. After threatening for months that a credit rating down grade was probable for the USA, Standard & Poor’s finally took the ‘big step’ on Friday 5 August, after the major...
View ArticleThe Market Equation
Image via CrunchBase Please note: This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit...
View ArticleThe Ice Age is Cometh
Originally published 4 October 2009: Information Asymmetry is what drives the market. We alluded to this in an earlier blog posting (see Market Responsibility, Saturday, 18 October 2008). Yet we still...
View ArticleQE – Our take on the Bell Curve effect
Making sense of the distribution and lag effects Let us explain the problem or rather challenge of choosing between Quantitative Easing (QE) and an Interest Rate reduction to stimulate economic...
View ArticleThe economics of Gap (Interim) or Freelance Management
We thought it about time to write an opinion piece on the dynamics (economics) around the Interim Management market, delivered from a UK perspective. This is a purely thought piece and opinion, not...
View ArticleThe Seven Deadly Sins of the Market
As if last week’s (week ending 23 September 2011) turbulence on the world’s stock markets wasn’t enough of an emotional rollercoaster for millions of market participant’s, we will offer only one bit of...
View ArticleQuantitative Easing – Here we go again
A reminder of what we wrote on 22 September 2011 about Quantitative Easing: “QE – Our take on the Bell Curve Effect” (Please click on the link for the full article). Expect Mervin King to continue...
View ArticleThe Big Design: Moral Hazard, and the EU
Irrespective of how the twists and turns of the Greek political system plays out over the next few days and weeks, we believe that the Big EU (Eurozone more specifically) players and their leaders only...
View ArticleA new Commercial Reality under Austerity
How to compete fairly and openly. [Part of our ‘The Trouble with Innovation series 1,2,3,4,5 – Part 6] Doing business anywhere, anytime is never easy! That is a stark commercial reality, that most...
View ArticlePanic in the Cars of Britain?
With apologies to The Smiths; the original version of the song Panic’s lyrics reads something like this: “Panic on the streets of London / Panic on the streets of Birmingham / I wonder to myself /...
View ArticleThe problem with INTEGRATION
[PART I] Our view on the fundamental problem with integration is that the word does not contain the 4Cs of essential successful outcomes: Communication Change Management effort Control and Coordination...
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