Fred Sheehan

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• China Sidelines US As EU’s New Top Trading Partner

  Published 19 February 2021 | viewed 3,343 times

  For the first time, China has officially become the European Union’s top trading partner, trumping the United States, which has long held that status. According…

• Anything Goes - Again

  Published 19 September 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Lee Thomas Smith, National Association of Building Owners and Contractors annual convention, 1926 "So intense was real estate speculation in 1925, one-eighth of the national…

• Tail Risk

  Published 12 September 2014 | viewed 0 times

  In a recent memo to Oaktree Capital clients, Chairman Howard Marks writes about "the time I spent advising a sovereign wealth fund about how to…

• What Does The Media Do?

  Published 06 September 2014 | viewed 0 times

  What do reporters do all day? In "Exclusive!" "Shocking!" "Extra, Read All About It!" breaking news, AuContrarian.com published the damning testimony of (in 2008 -…

• Sell Financial Stocks - and Bonds

  Published 05 September 2014 | viewed 0 times

  (RESERVE YOUR SEATS: On August 26, 2014, for what seems the fiftieth time, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims rejected the U.S. government's attempt to…

• The Killing Fields

  Published 28 August 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The house organ for the Council of Foreign Relations, Foreign Affairs, has published its final solution under the title: "Print Less and Transfer More: Why…

• Meet Your Investment Manager

  Published 20 August 2014 | viewed 0 times

  There is little else left in the asset-pricing world than central bankers. The redoubtable Ben Hunt, chief risk officer at Salient investment managers ($20 billion…

• End-of-the-Cycle Mispricing

  Published 12 August 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The attachment is to a paper Joe Calandro and I wrote for the November 2013 Gloom, Doom & Boom Report. "Catastrophe Insured: Cat Bonds," discusses…

• Some Things Never Change

  Published 27 July 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The blowup ahead is baked in the cake, just as it was in 2007. "When and where will it start?" is often asked. The proverbial…

• No Decency

  Published 26 July 2014 | viewed 0 times

  MarketWatch should be ashamed of itself. In a July 24, 2014, interview, Mephistopheles was treated with the respect due a senior statesman, when he should…

• Where to Invest: With Macroinvestors or Macroeconomists?

  Published 24 July 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Stanley Druckenmiller, the justly renowned investor, spoke at the Delivering Alpha conference on Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Quoting Druckenmiller: "As a macro investor, my job…

• The Old Regime and the French Revolution

  Published 14 July 2014 | viewed 0 times

  On this 225th anniversary of liberté, égalite, and fraternité, Alexis de Tocqueville's The Old Regime and the French Revolution (L'Ancien régime et la revolution), published…

• June 2014 - Noise

  Published 10 July 2014 | viewed 0 times

  On June 18, 2014, and July 2, 2014, Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen announced her bureaucracy will let inflation do its own thing. She is…

• The Full Yellen

  Published 20 June 2014 | viewed 0 times

  As always, there was plenty of talk after Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen held a press conference yesterday, June 18, 2014. Complaints are heard she…

• Princeton Abuses Volcker's Trust

  Published 16 June 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker (Princeton '49) returned to campus on May 30, 2014. He was treading in the devil's den and has been…

• Greenspan in China: Not the Opera (Yet)

  Published 11 June 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession has been translated into Chinese. Professor…

• May 2014 - Crematorium

  Published 09 June 2014 | viewed 0 times

  "Groups of women were crushing each other..., a real mob, more brutal for covetousness....the furnace-like heat with which the shop was ablaze came above all…

• The Battle of Midway

  Published 05 June 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The Battle of Midway was fought 72 years ago, from June 4, 1942 to June 7, 1942. Air strikes from U.S. aircraft carriers maimed beyond…

• Bernanke Money-Grubs From The .01%

  Published 22 May 2014 | viewed 0 times

  "[Bernanke] gave this stuff out [inside information -FJS], but I didn't realize what he was saying at the time, so I didn't do a great…

• Confusion

  Published 15 May 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The Producer Price Index for April was released May 14, 2014. The one-month change was +0.6%, after it rose 0.5% in March (revised to that…