For the first time in what seems like aeons, there's been some intersting price action in the markets with which Macro Man has been most...
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Number-crunching the FX fixing fines
Behind the numbers in the FX fixing scandal, which represented a "brazen 'heads I win, tails you lose' scheme", according ...
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A multiple choice question
So the ECB's recent revelation that they will frontload QE purchases ahead of the illiquid summer period represents: a) A sensible pr...
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Which of these things is not like the others?
1) The quarterly annualized run-rate of retail sales has been at its worst level since the crisis: 2) Forward earnings estimates have...
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20 Questions
1) How high will Bund yields go in this rout? 2) Will Schatz yields go positive again this year? 3) The Shanghai Comp is currently 4400....
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Spring has sprung
Suddenly, the long cold winter appears to be but a distant memory. Spring is in the air- and not just because of the warm sunny weather we...
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Unappetizing options
Hard as it is to believe, election day in the UK is finally here. The timing is particularly poignant for Macro Man, as it was on the heels...
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Slightly less amusing than Miliband's monolith
Sometimes the jokes just write themselves, don't they? Ed Miliband's ill-conceived plan to erect a monolith listing his vapid camp...
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