Gnome-o-grams

Gnome-o-grams

• Big Picture
  • What to Call the Present Era?
• Debt
  • Euro-denominated Sovereign Debt
  • Deleveraging—It's All About the Debt
  • Parkinson's Law and the U.S. Public Debt
  • “Take my money. Please—I'll pay you!”
• Derivatives
  • Understanding Financial Derivatives
  • Counterparty Risk
  • Adjustable Rate Mortgages, Notional Value, and the Double Dip
• Gold
  • The Ultimate Refuge
  • Including Gold in a Portfolio
  • All the Gold in the World
  • Whence Gold?
• Bailouts
  • Bankruptcy Socialism
  • Economic Dictatorship and Short Selling
  • The Indiana Jones Economy
  • Tiling with Terabucks
  • Mortgage Bailout, Roman Style
• Taxation
  • Tipping Point
• Trends and Indicators
  • The Harvard MBA Indicator
  • “A new era, unprecedented era in financial history”
  • Endgame?
  • Inverted Yield Curve
• Black Swan Events
  • The Japanese Earthquake—Financial Aftershocks?
• Political Economy
  • “Managing the Economy”
  • Are the U.S. bankrupt?
  • The Indispensable Man
  • Experts
• Humour
  • Goldman Sachs Meets a Muppet
• Book Reviews
  • Against the Gods by Peter L. Bernstein
  • Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
  • The Battle of Bretton Woods by Benn Steil
  • The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • The Hyperinflation Survival Guide by Gerald Swanson
  • Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed
  • When Money Dies by Adam Fergusson
• Recommended Articles at Other Web Sites
  • “Rich Man, Poor Man” [PDF] by Richard Russell
  • “Crunchiness” by Nico Colchester