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Monthly Archives: April 2014
Fed’s Fisher: “Adieu Quantitative Easing”
Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher, gave a speech to the Asia Society Hong Kong Center last week (read the full text here) where he laid out the glaring concerns and reasons for why the Fed’s QE policies are now in … Continue reading
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Time to curb the counterproductive mis-incentives of share buybacks (again)
In 1982 the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (financial firm controlled) used Rule 10b-18 to legalize large-scale buybacks so long as they did not exceed 25% of a company’s average daily trading volume over the previous four weeks. Previously the … Continue reading
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US Supreme Court allows larger individual political contributions
Last week, the US Supreme Court struck down restrictions on how much individual donors can contribute to candidates, political parties and political action committees. The Court voted along its party lines, with a 5(Republican)-4 (Democrat) finding that aggregate limits for … Continue reading
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