Financial columnist, work appears on Reuters products, International Financing Review and elsewhere
Huntsville, AL
Joined January 2009
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Who best knows what a poor person needs? That person. Just give directly. givedirectly.org/ (here subtweeting all central banks)
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Great job today by Deputies Mizner and Hart as they helped rescue two Manatees that were stranded in receding water.
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Debunking 'market forces' myth. I would add that incentives to rent seek played a role alongside social norms: mainlymacro.blogspot.co.uk/2… xitter.cf/BenChu_/status/9068743…
Look to crumbling social norms, not market forces, for an explanation of spiralling top pay. Me for @IndyVoices : independent.co.uk/voices/wag…
Astronomers could chart the trajectory of the eclipse, but modern commerce could not deliver trustworthy glasses. nytimes.com/2017/09/09/scien…
Football helmet would be better, or a rubber Jimmy Carter mask. xitter.cf/mattyglesias/status/90…
Utility crews stream into Florida for hurricane payday -
And the guy is out earning for his 11-mo old foster kid. reut.rs/2faOn7S
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Unless rates rise to around 4 per cent...:
US and Europe have world’s worst-funded corporate pension schemes ft.com/content/bab7da4e-9487… via @FT
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Equifax breach may kill GOP chances of rolling back CFPB mandatory arbitration rule: americanbanker.com/news/equi…
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.@mattapuzzo's story on the ATF sting-turned-slush-fund is the craziest thing I have read in a long time.
nytimes.com/2017/09/08/us/at…
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This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea, xitter.cf/DailyMirror/status/906…
Woman jumps out of mobility scooter to push teen into fountain during mass brawl
mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/wo…
I wonder how Fed Chair John Miller will handle that... xitter.cf/pdacosta/status/906189…
Trump debt ceiling deal means "the Fed's December meeting could take place against backdrop of a federal shutdown." read.bi/2wOH4fn
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Excellent point from DB's George Saravelos. Big source of inflows to US in last 3ys = US sales of foreiegn bonds! ft.com/content/4df2215a-9485…
We'll have to wait for Jose to hear that the taper is delayed too. The one after that, "Hurricane Lee" will see resumption of QE;) xitter.cf/alisterbull1/status/90…
Bill Dudley says hurricanes could temporarily influence timing of next #fed interest-rate increase bloomberg.com/news/articles/… @markets @boes_
"Catastrophe Bonds" are a good example of the maxim: when someone tells you who they are, believe them.
Trump anger at Cohn raises doubts about his White House tenure: sources | Article [AMP] | Reuters reuters.com/article/us-usa-t…
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Today is officially 10 months without a 3% correction for the #SPX. This is now the second longest streak ever ... lplresearch.com/2017/09/07/w…
At the point NPR is doing stories about booming RV industry and zero effective unemployment in Elkhart, IN, can a recession be far away?
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DOJ Inspector General says the Tenn. Dep't of Safety and Homeland Security spent $110,000 of asset-forfeiture money on catering.
