Do We Need A "Fedcoin" Cryptocurrency? by William J. Luther, Foundation For Economic Education There's no good reason for a Fed-managed blockchain In a recent blog post, St. Louis Fed Vice... Read More

Warren Buffett, the world's greatest investor, who only buys stocks and businesses that he intends to hold forever. That's the view most people have of the Oracle of Omaha. Q1... Read More

The Puerto Rico Government Development Bank’s Economic Activity Index (EAI) was flat from January to February this year, showing that the worst of the commonwealth’s recession is hopefully behind... Read More

Stocks that are expected to trade actively in U.S. markets on Friday include: AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), Vodafone Group Plc (ADR) (NASDAQ:VOD), Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ), salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE:CRM), Nuance... Read More

The European Central Bank (ECB) has released a working paper defending high frequency trading (HFT), saying that it helps with more efficient price discovery because HFT on average trades... Read More

What happens when Quantitative Easing (QE) meets an illiquid market? It looks as if the Bank of England just found out. As part of the BoE’s new £70 billion stimulus... Read More

The central Asia-focused Sturgeon Capital declined 0.5% in U.S. dollar terms in September, bringing its year-to-date returns to -5.57%. Gold prices slumped during the month, which negatively impacted one... Read More

Alexander Sacerdote and Whale Rock Capital are having another great year. Not only is the Boston-based hedge fund generating market-beating returns --  up 30.1% on the year as of... Read More

In Greek mythology, Icarus was the son of the famous craftsman Daedalus, who was imprisoned along with his son by King Minos of Crete. As the story goes, to... Read More

Trying to predict the end of economic cycles isn't an easy game, but analysts at Morgan Stanley believe that they have some idea as to the date of the current... Read More