by Jason Apollo Voss | 09 11 2010 | Blog
I wrote last week about the U.S. Federal Reserve’s “quantitative easing.” This is the purchasing of billions of dollars of debt by the Fed in the open market. Each time they purchase some debt it adds U.S. currency to the global marketplace. The...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 09 11 2010 | Best of the Blog, Blog
For today’s post I wanted to decry a financial markets press tactic that is as old as the markets themselves. Namely, the media love to anthropomorphize markets, especially the stock market. In other words, this is the tendency of reporters to ascribe human...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 09 11 2010 | Blog
There was a massive outcry against MSNBC for having suspended its Countdown host, Keith Olbermann, for having donated monies to three political candidates in contravention to its code of ethics. I must confess that I am a big fan of Keith Olbermann. But I must also...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 08 11 2010 | Blog
Recall that in the springtime this year there was a massive European debt crisis – something that I covered extensively here on the blog. Financial markets around the world were roiled by the possibility that Greece was going to default on its sovereign debt. ...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 05 11 2010 | News & Events
Here is the footage of the interview I gave to Huntsville’s Valley Talk WYAM. (Click on READ MORE to the right to view the video.) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akzZBW7QGSQ[/youtube]
