Category: Markets Written by James Stafford

The late-2014, Saudi-initiated oil-price war may have taken the 'boom' out of the US shale industry as it seriously threatened OPEC market share, but Saudi victory has been elusive: US shale has proven amazingly resilient. The industry has adapted quickly to the new playing field, and the

Category: Economy Written by Glen Asher

A fascinating paper by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson, "Learning the Right Lessons From the Financial Crisis", looks at the mess that has been created in the global economy since late 2007 and how the Federal Reserve has pretty much been incapable of truly fixing the problems in

Category: Markets Written by Subodh Kumar

Category: Markets Written by Glen Asher

I recently posted an article on the unintended consequences that central bank actions have had on the global bond market.  According to a recent poll by the CFA Institute, 30 percent of all respondents believed that all of the fixed-income markets are experiencing an asset bubble with an

Category: Economy Written by Glen Asher

In the past, I've posted articles on the views of Narayana Kocherlakota, the former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, professor of economics at the University of Rochester and columnist for Bloomberg View.  In his latest musings, he looks at how the government was

Category: Markets Written by Zainab Calcuttawala

Category: Economy Written by Glen Asher

A recent speech at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance in Beijing, China by Boston Federal Reserve Bank President Eric Rosengren looks at global financial stability and one of the concerning issues that unprecedented central bank intervention has caused since the Great Recession.