“I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.” James…
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There were echoes of August 2008 for a few hours last week. The yield spread on 10 year Spanish, Belgian and Italian government bonds over German government bonds spiked to a euro era record, while the cost of insuring Portuguese…
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Quantitative Easing Explained (by cartoon bears)
- Topics
- deflation, quantitative easing
Posted November 18th, 2010
If you’re not one of the 1,454,441 people who have already seen the “Quantitative Easing Explained” video on You Tube, you can learn all about “The Ben Bernank” and “The Deflation” here.
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I was in India earlier this month to have two days of meetings with company CEOs (thanks very much to UBS’s Ranjit Hosangady, an M&G alum, for organising). The link below takes you to a short video that I filmed…
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A couple of short youtube clips from Australian satirists John Clarke and Bryan Dawe. We thought it might give you a chuckle before the long weekend. For an explanation of how the financial system works, click here. To gain an…
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A couple of weeks ago I went on an incredibly useful trip to Frankfurt, where I met with some key policy makers from the European Central Bank and the Bundesbank, and discussed a range of issues including the timing of…
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A video from Chicago & New York: is there any value left in high yield?
- Topics
- high yield
Posted August 7th, 2009
Stefan Isaacs and I were in the States last week on a research trip to challenge our views on the high yield market. With global high yield and leveraged loans up by 30%+ in 2009 so far, we wanted to…










