Category Archives: Risk and risk management

Bank Shot: Financial Giants’ Return to Manhattan Gives Smaller Businesses Hope

Some bank CEOs are telling their workers to return to the office in the next few months. If Covid stay tame, will other companies follow?

Fed Shamelessly Gives Warnings of Vague and Ominous Risks While Saying Don’t Expect Us to Do Anything About It

The Fed tells the world: Don’t expect us to be ready for the next financial crisis. It’s just too hard.

How America Can Curb the Epidemic of Violence Against Health Care Workers

Health care staffers are on the receiving end of violence more often than you might think, yet perilous little is done to protect them.

The CDC’s VAERS and Vaccine Complications: The System is Broken

The CDC has been visibly remiss in gathering and updating Covid data in VAERS, and that typifies its pandemic mismanagement.

Prolonged Brain Dysfunction in COVID-19 Survivors: A Pandemic in its Own Right?

More information on lasting Covid damage, this time on the brain.

Cabin Fever: Americans (of Means) Keen to Travel. How Many Will Play it Safe?

The travel genie is about to leave the bottle.

Wolf Richter: Historic Mania in SPACs, IPOs. Huge Fees for Wall Street Banks. Mega Paydays for Insiders. Disdain for Valuations. Blind Faith that “This Time It’s Different”

SPAC mania, with billions raised: this time it’s different, everyone is saying again – another sign that the zoo has gone nuts.

5 Reasons to Wear a Mask Even After You’re Vaccinated

Yes, Virginia, a mask is very much part of your future.

Coming Attraction: IPCC’s Upcoming Major Climate Assessment

Another set of blockbuster IPCC reports are in the works. What to expect?

It’s the Index, Stupid! Our New Not-So-Neutral Financial Market Arbiters

An overview of the recent changes in financial markets that have come from the rise of ‘passive’ investing.

2020 “Globie”: The Carry Trade

A recent book focuse on the role of the carry trade in increasing financialization and instabilty.

Dealing with the Second Wave: Subsidies, Instead of Ordering Closures

Could officials use carrots rather than a stick to induce short-term closures of high risk businesses like restaurants?

Bloomberg Warns: A Covid Vaccine Could Help the Virus Spread

And just when you started to think an effective Covid vaccine would fix everything….

Michael Klare: How the US Plays Nuclear Chicken with Russia and China

eeping tabs on US nuclear provocations of Russia and China.