Articles
- The Great Leveraging: Economic Growth and Investing Strategies for the Future
- Since 1980, three of the four major economic sectors have dramatically increased their debt levels. Chip Dickson and Oded Shenkar discuss the rise in debt and how the situation has gotten to its current extreme levels.
- Introduction to the Great Deleveraging: Economic Growth and Investing Strategies for the Future
- In this introduction to their book, Chip Dickson and Oded Shenkar address why the United States took on so much debt, how the debt will be reduced, and the costs of that deleveraging.
- 'Being Cautious Is to Stop Moving': How Innovation and Entrepreneurship Can Bring Societal Change
- At the Wharton Global Alumni Forum in Madrid, speakers from Spain, Rwanda and Nairobi took part in a panel that looked at the social and economic applications of technology and innovation, and how support for entrepreneurship can help raise the standard of living for those in developing countries.
Podcasts
Pat Westhoff on the Effect of Policy Choices on Food Prices- Pat Westhoff explains how policy choices such as farm subsidies, biofuel use and production, taxes and tariffs, food aid programs, government-sponsored research, and food safety regulations affect food prices.
- Pat Westhoff on the Booms and Busts in Food Markets
- Pat Westhoff discusses why food prices shot up and then plummeted between 2005 and today. He suggests that food prices are strongly affected by not only industry effects, but by the general economy -- and that we pay more when consumer incomes increase.
- Pat Westhoff on the Rise and Fall of Food Prices
- Pat Westhoff discusses what caused the recent wild swings in food prices, and how and why these prices will continue to rise and fall in the future. He includes a look at the production of ethanol and other biofuels, and its effect on the food industry.
Blogs
- Options Trading: Commentary by Literature's Big Names, a Labor Day Weekend Special
It may be true that listed options are a somewhat modern oddity. But some quick research has turned up interesting commentary on options trading and, specifically, concerning risks and going short. So William Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe and even Ogden Nash added their voices to the unending debate about options trading …
- Candlestick Charting - the doji single-stick candle
When can a “mistake” provide you with a strong charting signal? The candlestick called the “doji” -- Japanese for “mistake” is an often-occurring and valuable signal. Even though the indicator involves a single session, it is a meaningful red flag.
- Candlestick Charting -- the Marubozu single-stick candle
Candlestick formations are very revealing, and are especially valuable as confirmation signals or even as an early warning of a coming price reversal. Among the most revealing is the Marubozu, with means “bald.” It is so called because the stick has little or no upper or lower shadows.
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