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- Powell & Goliath – Riding Out the Jay Curve
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- CLEAR & PRESENT DANGER
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- The Unbearable Lightness of Trading
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- AGAINST ALL ODDS — An Open Letter to a Strong Leader
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- Jay Powell – A Quiet Leader
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- “Okay, Houston, we’ve had an opportunity here.”
- The Bonfire of the Vulgarities
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- The Writing on the Wall
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- The U.K. Election: An Outsider Looking In
- The Demographic Divide: A Police State of Mind
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- The Running of the Bulls’ Mouths
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- Pension Tension: Uncle Sam Walking Tightrope into the Unknown
- Ode to Investors: Super Size Me!
- America’s Gilded Age 2: On the Rocks
- If an electorate falls in the forest, is their voice heard?
- Is the Fed’s Balance Sheet Headed for the Crapper?
- Retailing in America: Game Theory in Reverse
- In Case You Missed It — March 24, 2017
- The American Dream: An Endangered Ethos
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- The Buford T. Justice Job Market
- The Five-Tool Bond Market
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- What Does it Take to Launch a Bestselling Book?
- Fed Up: Culture Shock
- Slapped in the Face by the Invisible Hand
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- Blinding Flash of the Obvious
- Bloomberg: Heed the Fed’s Balance Sheet Banter
- Retailing in America: Bricks & Torture
- With Great Pride, I Give You Fed Up
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- The Priceless Parable of Price Discovery
- The Federal Reserve and the Destruction of the American Dream
- Will Public Pensions be Trump’s Biggest Challenge?
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- The Labor Market Working Nine to Five
- The French Connection
- Federal Reserve Meeting Minutes: Stronger than Oak
- Inflation 101: Prep School for Preppers
- Exiting the Winter of Our Discontent
- The Federal Reserve to Pensions: Suspend Disbelief Indefinitely
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- Global Debt Investors: The Silence of the Lambs
- The Beer Goggles Stock Market
- JOBS: Our National Treasure
- The Overlords of Finance
- Passive Investors Unite: We Blind Mice
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- Angels Manning Heaven’s Trading Floors
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- The Dirty Harry Jobs Report
- The U.S. Economy: Bad Moon Rising
- A New Monetary Policy Framework? Old Faithful Meets the ‘New Normal’
- In a Fed Meeting Minute, Everything Can Change
- The U.S. Consumer: Are the Jetsons’ Jets Still On?
- Dear Job Market, Take This Indicator and Shove It!
- The 50 Altered States of American Housing
- The Bond Market: Beware of Junkyard Dogs
- Commercial Real Estate Checks into the Heartbreak Hotel
- Norma Rae Meets Her Match
- The Italian Job
- The British Referendum and the Long Arm of the Lawless
- The Vanity of Central Bankers and the Common Sense Rule
- FedSpeak: Lost in Translation
- Venezuela Burning
- Quantitative Easing and the Corruption of Corporate America
- Retailing in America: Valley Girl (Interrupted)
- Central Banks and the Rise of Extremism
- Drain No More: Fed Funds R.I.P
- Central Bankers to the Masses: “Let Them Eat Rate!”
- Distress Testing the Efficient Frontier
- Has the Fed Bankrupted the Nation?
- Towers of Dabble
- Are America’s Workers Playing Hard to Get?
- The Smell of Dryer Powder in the Morning
- Is America’s Economy Shooting Blanks?
- Self FOOL-filling Prophesies
- An Embarrassment of Stitches
- Give Me Liberty or Give Me Debt!
- The Shanghai Expressionless
- MacGyver Money
- The Turn of the Screwflation
- Empathy for the Devil
- January Retail Sales: Let Them Eat Bacon!
- Midnight in the Garden of Fallen Angels
- The January Jobs Report Does Not Ensure a March Rate Hike
- Creative Indestruction
- Note to the FOMC: Google ‘Nuance’
- Paying the Pied Piper of Passivity
- The Sweathogs of Sovereigns?
- Locked and Not Loaded
- Grandma Got Run Over by a Rate Hike
- Bottoms-Down Forecasting
- A Texan in King Arthur’s Court
- Mind the Cap
- The Fed Awakens
- Desperately Seeking Equities in Dallas
- Nerf Wars
- A Contrarian Gives Thanks
- Last Sighting at the Machus Red Fox
- An Open Letter to the Debate Team
- Night Diving
- Shining a Light on the Fed, Danielle DiMartino Booth in DCEO Magazine
- P = qe² (?)
- Whistling Past the Junkyard
- PEAK 2 PEAK
- Fear Factor
- Tiny Bubbles
- Angels Manning Heaven’s Trading Floors
- Illiquid Plumber
- Help Wanted: Fearless & Grounded Central Banker
- Trumped Towers
- Sunset at the Bakken Club
- Drafting the Dodge – A Mother’s Battle Plan to Combat the Currency Wars
- You do the Math
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