What's going on with wheat? Macro Man generally tends to avoid mention of the soft commodities, because he frankly has no specialist kn...
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Don't you hate it when that happens?
Macro Man isn't going to write about equities this morning, because it seems quite clear that he doesn't understand what's going...
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I'll HUF and I'll puff and I'll blow your peg down
Oh, those crazy Magyars! While the attention of the financial world has been focused on the currency pegs in China, Russia, and the Middle ...
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Has anything changed (except the weather?)
Macro Man is back in the saddle after a week on the slopes, and to be honest it's difficult to see much that's changed. Equities goi...
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Quiz answers
In order of MOST to LEAST affordable, the list is as follows: 1) Dallas/Ft. Worth (median house price of 2.5 times local median income) 2) ...
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An analysis that may interest only me
It's a fairly well-established phenomenon that financial website traffic goes through the roof when markets go to hell in a handbasket. ...
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A Quiz For While I'm Gone
Place the following cities in order from MOST to LEAST affordable housing markets, relative to local incomes: * Belfast * Bournemouth, UK * ...
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Bonds Get Kervieled
What a weird day. Everyone's favourite helicopter pilot regales the market with stories of his whirlybird exploits, including an implic...
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Should We Love Equities?
Ah, Valentine's day. Lovers walk hand-in-hand in the park, early spring flowers bloom, birds sing sweetly in the air, and the greeting ...
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At least the hangnail won't kill ya!
Whew! Macro Man sure is glad the whole credit crisis thingy is over. Now that Warren Buffet is on the scene , everything's gonna be j...
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Mixed signals
On the face of it. the world would appear to remain a distinctly unpleasant place. AIG announced yesterday that it was the latest "wi...
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Is there anything more irrelevant than G7?
Well, the big event of the weekend has come and gone, and lo and behold not much has changed. Yes, the G7 group of finance ministers and ce...
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Macro Man isn't sure...
...but he reckons that the waiting room scene from the film Beetlejuice (in which the eponymous ghost has ticket number 3,765,945 or some s...
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A couple of apparent mispricings
This post is being written on Thursday evening, as Macro Man has gradually revived throughout the day. There may be a worse feeling that th...
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Top 10 most difficult things to do when you feel like Death
1) Write an intelligent blog post 2) Think of nine other entries for a list like this 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10)
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Very ugly, very quickly
Yesterday's off-topic rant was certainly an eye-opener, as it generated a record level of comment (by a comfortable margin) for any post...
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An Open Letter to Gordon Brown
Dear Gordon, 1. The weather in the UK is pretty awful. 2. The cost of living is very high. 3. The public services range from well-intentione...
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Snowed Under
Freak events and acts of nature are generally among the more difficult things to game from a financial market perspective. Even if you kno...
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After one day...
...it doesn't appear as if February's getting much easier to play than January was. Stocks go crazy yesterday, and bonds barely bud...
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In the books
So January's in the books; suffice to say it wasn't too pleasnat for many people. (Though not, apparently, banks; Macro Man has hear...
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