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 | 04 10 2010 | Best of the Blog, Blog
One of the first topics I covered on the blog at its inception almost two years ago was the power of capitalism’s “creative destruction.” What the heck is that? It is economist Joseph Schumpeter’s concept that capitalist economies are in a...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 13 09 2010 | Best of the Blog, Blog
Over the weekend it was announced that global banking regulators had finally agree to new capital standards for banks. The standards were coordinated by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. In short, banks are going to be required to have more capital (read:...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 20 07 2010 | Best of the Blog, Blog
Much start-stop strangeness is happening in the stock markets. Ostensibly this is due to companies reporting earnings that either exceed or are in line with expectations; yet whose revenues fail to excite. This is the very same issue I wrote about over a year ago as...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 25 06 2010 | Best of the Blog, Blog
The big news this morning, and perhaps the biggest news since I started publishing the blog, is that a financial industry overhaul bill has finally been readied for Congress to vote on. I began the blog sending out a mini-manifesto to the e-ethers calling for reform...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 16 05 2010 | Best of the Blog, Blog
Open question to investors: What’re you doing liquidating U.S. stocks and going to cash? Open rebuttal to such thinking: You invest because you want to first, preserve capital, but second and more powerful, you want to make money. Where else besides the U.S....
