Hints and tips:
...Luckily, amid all the usual guff about r-stars, obsolete playbooks and how Volcker loved fly-fishing, this year’s Jackson Hole confab yielded an interesting paper on the topic by Stanford’s Darrell Duffie...
...One from a UC Berkeley professor, Barry Eichengreen, and one from Stanford professor Darrell Duffie....
...If the songs don’t connect, you haven’t got anything. How politically committed are you? I think a lot about the environment and community: those matter to me....
...The safest global haven lost its haven status until the US Federal Reserve came to the rescue, cutting the target range for the benchmark to near zero and committing to buy $500bn-plus of Treasury securities...
...The US has done that for more than 100 years, with the US Treasury market offering the safest haven in the world in times of crisis and the most liquid securities — that is, the easiest to trade....
...Darrell Duffie, of Stanford University, advocates for mandatory central clearing of all Treasury trades, a move that is arguably overdue. But something more drastic is warranted....
...All of which brings us back to Darrell Huff, statistical sceptic and author of How to Lie with Statistics....
...“There haven’t been such dramatic fissures between the White House and California before,” says Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a professor of public policy at the University of Southern California....
...I have a lot of questions that I haven’t had answered.”...
...Gartmore says its European large-cap team will continue to be led by Mr Guy and supported by Tomas Pinto, Darrell O’Dea and Leopold Arminjon....
...“They haven’t been able to solve the sales problems separately, so the question is: can they solve them jointly?”...
..."The core financial engines of the company haven't changed, but we have learned enough in terms of some of the work we have done here to begin to do enough small things better....
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