Merry Christmas to all readers around the globe. Here's hoping Santa brought you what you wished for (cough, healthy knee and an easie...
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Market Christmas Carols
At long last, it's come: Macro Man's last day in the office of 2009. It's been an eventful year, both personally and profess...
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Hidden Truths
Macro Man isn't sure that we learned much from the FOMC last night, but that doesn't mean that markets have receded into a pre-Chris...
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See No Evil, Hear No Evil
So Japanese banks rose 7% last night in the face of a huge impending share offering by Mitsubish/UFJ. What gives? Well, the Nikkei repor...
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EUR A Disappointment
Although Christmas markets are in full swing, with the concomitant reduced risk profiles, low volumes, and general lack of interest (at leas...
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The Problem With Political Correctness
While the problems with political correctness are manifold, among the most egregious is that attempting to remain PC can sometimes prevent o...
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Christmas Comes Early
Ho ho ho! Christmas has come early (OK, not this early ) today, courtesy of that well-known proponent of Yuletide cheer....Abu Dhabi! The e...
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The Hangover
Today's post will be mercifully short, as last night was Macro Man's office Christmas party. Overconsumption of adult beverages ha...
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The Party's Over
OK, now the party's over. For Macro Man, that means the pity party. OK, he's had a bad run, and he's moaned about more than ...
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Remember That Thou Art Mortal
In the days of the Roman Republic, the imperator of a particularly successful or important military campaign was occasionally awarded a tri...
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Wait Til Next Year!
Well, that payroll figure put the cat amongst the pigeons, n'est-ce pas? A headline figure close to zero, the best household figure sin...
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The Haircut
Macro Man had a haircut yesterday. Now normally, that's the sort of trivial everyday event that wouldn't come close to an airing in ...
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My, How Times Have Changed
OK, let's get this over with. No, Macro Man cannot confirm that the reason the USD fell so hard overnight is because Elin Woods asked ...
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What Goes Around Comes Around
Macro Man recently had an unfortunate experience with one of his brokers. Dialling a 24-hour line, he left an order at about 8 pm London t...
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Ice, Ice Baby
Macro Man was chagrined to find, upon emerging from his house this morning, that his windshield had iced over for the first time this autumn...
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Who? What? Where? Why?
OK, so it looks as if disaster may be averted in Dubai: the latest hot rumour is that the central bank will guarantee all Dubai World deb t....
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A Good Old-Fashioned Panic
Sometimes, those little guys matter. That seems to be the message of the past twenty-four hours where rumours/uncertainty over a possible ...
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Ten Things I'm Thankful For
It's Thanksgiving today, which means heavily impaired liquidity and, thus far, large price swings. Before Macro Man starts to "cook...
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Too Big To Fail
It's tempting to get sucked into writing about today's sharp decline in the Shanghai Composite (pictured below) and what it might me...
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