Regular readers will know that Macro Man is a bit of a music aficionado. While he sadly possesses no musical ability (other than possibly ...
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Main Street > Wall Street
Clearly there are more voters on Main Street than Wall Street, and we all know that the first job of a Congressman in October is to make sur...
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What's the German Word for Schadenfreude?
Clink. Clink. Clink. That sound you hear is the pennies dropping in Europe. While yesterday saw what appears to be an anticlimactic agr...
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O Package Where Art Thou?
This market just gets more and more surreal. Yesterday saw the release of not one, not two, but three pieces of abjectly awful US economi...
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Time for a new multi-national program?
Another day, another stunning piece of news that will save the global financial system for sure, this time. Yes, folks, the irresistable f...
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Thoughts from Madrid
Macro Man has spent the weekend in Madrid, which is salubrious an environ as any other in which to digest the momentous developments of the ...
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Weekend Special: Financial Poetry by Popular Demand
By request of a reader, a re-working of A.E. Houseman : To a Trader Retiring Young The year you made forty percent, Investors thought you he...
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A Message In Bold...And Another To M. Trichet
There's not much that Macro Man can write that you probably don't already know: markets are completely, utterly broken. Liquidity i...
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You know it makes sense
Given that the Russians seem to own most of the UK (or at least London), it makes sense for the British authorities to adopt certain practic...
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Faster Than the Speed of Light
Although Macro Boy the Elder is only six years old, he knows that nothing (other than certain properties of subatomic particles) moves faste...
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Snake eyes
So Team 1250 rolled snake eyes and did nothing with interest rates. From an economic perspective it's not such a bad decision- as noted...
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The Last Throw of the Dice?
Is today the last throw of the dice for Team 1250? Yesterday's equity market price action, particularly the late-session, high-volume c...
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A Financial Requiem
With apologies to Kenny Rogers On a warm summer’s evening in a bar in the City I met up with the banker; we were both too tired to weep....
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Lehman Goes to the Wall
Unfortunately for all at Lehman Brothers, it looks like the King's English Defence has failed to avoid checkmate. Latest reports sugge...
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A Damned Shame
Well, what can we say? Another day, another US government intervention- this time to broker a buyer for Lehman Brothers. Per the usual, so...
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Team 1250 Strikes Back
So BOA is the white knight who will save Lehman (ed. note: with whose money?). It looks like Team 1250 let a few friendly folks know befor...
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Free fallin'
Another day, another disappointing lack of collapse in European equity markets. While Macro Man is trying not to tick watch and remains f...
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D-day for Lehman: A running diary
Macro Man is going to try something new today, an occasional running diary of his thoughts, fears , joys, and frustrations on what looks set...
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Large Hadron Collider
Today is a momentous day for geeks around the world, from professional particle physicists to science amateurs like Macro Man. Yes, today...
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Another checkmate (guess who?)
As painful as it is to see Macro Man's friends at Lehman in personal financial distress, it's hard to escape the conclusion that the...
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