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Monday, May 3, 2021

3/5/21: Margin Debt: Things are FOMOing up...

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Debt, debt and more FOMO... Source: topdowncharts.com and my annotations Ratio of leveraged longs to shorts is at around 3.5, which is 2014...

Saturday, March 8, 2014

8/3/2014: FTT - More Benign Estimates of Impact?

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In recent years, I have written extensively about the problems relating to the introduction of a Tobin-styled FTT, including as proposed b...

Friday, February 3, 2012

3/2/2012: Big Bad Speculators & Little Red Riding Hoods

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That "Gotcha..." moment, you know... speaking last night at a round table discussion on the future of Europe, I was confronted wi...

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Friday, June 17, 2011

18/06/2011: Two papers - Commodities Speculation and Flat Taxes

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Some interesting studies worth reading released in recent weeks. First: Lombardi, Marco J. and Van Robays, Ine, paper "Do Financial Inv...

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