Prattle is pleased to publish this interview with Erez Katz, CEO and co-founder of Lucena Research, focusing on how machine… Read More

10 years ago today, France’s largest bank froze three hedge funds as subprime-panicked investors fled. Headlines globally are calling this the beginning of the Global Financial Crisis, and at first blush, it certainly has all the trappings. Packaged subprime mortgages, a run on a bank, a liquidity crunch and hard-to-value assets.

Most of my five children enjoy drinking coffee. Not just any old cup of joe, mind you, but a premium cup of java from one of the popular coffee chains. When they place their orders, it sounds like they’re speaking in a foreign language.

The reality of politics collides with the optimism of the campaign

"Good luck being bearish on humans for any extended period of time."

“Gentlemen prefer bonds.” So quipped Andrew Mellon in 1929 as stocks fell and investors rushed into bonds, pushing their yields down and prices up. Historians recount that the flight to safety had anything but a smooth landing.

There are so many different aspects of Donald Trump’s life that we could talk about, but the focus here is on Trump’s two publicly traded companies, Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts Inc. and Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc.

25 Year Zero Coupon Bond vs S&P 500 Total Return

"Given the confusion that can be created from the two different ways to calculate earnings, we think an old saying among investors perfectly applies: “profit is an opinion, cash is a fact.” "