Daily Archives: June 12, 2015

Overvalued assets exact long-term costs

The trouble with extremely over-valued assets, is that their valuations typically mean revert either through many years of stagnation or a period of abrupt losses. Either way, it can take a decade or more before valuations recover their prior cycle … Continue reading

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Senate hearing on retaliation on whistleblowers

We live in a time where criminal actors are routinely hiding unchecked behind the anonymity of institutions. In a civil society, individuals must be held accountable for the actions and omissions we take and direct. The corollary of this, is … Continue reading

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Student loans now 48% of US Fed total financial assets

The most recent Federal Reserve Bank of New York update calculates total US student loan debt at an eye-popping record, $1.16 trillion at the end of 2014. Just under half of those loans are owed to the US government. As … Continue reading

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