L’année est belle et bien finie. Faisons un tour des actifs gagnants et perdants sur ces 12 derniers mois ! Nous verrons également les conclusions à tirer de…
Je ne suis pas un grand admirateur de l’ancien secrétaire américain à la Défense, Donald Rumsfeld, qui a conçu l’invasion américaine en Irak. Cependant, il a…
We should’ve known something was up from the speeches made on Nov. 22nd when President Biden reappointed Fed Chair Powell and appointed Gov. Brainard as Vice…
We’ve heard a lot about inflation. Next Thursday is Thanksgiving Day in the US, the biggest national holiday, when much of the country gathers together and…
Inflation is the topic that just keeps on giving. It used to be that every Thursday I’d start panicking. “What should I write about this week?”…
So… the Fed finally tapered! OK, now what do we talk about? Now we start speculating about « lift-off » – the time when they start raising interest…
I debated whether the title of this week’s piece should be “from ‘transitory’ to ‘persistent’” but decided to go with the above. In any case, the…
There are three major central bank meetings next week: the Bank of Canada on Wednesday and the Bank of Japan (BoJ) and European Central Bank (ECB)…
The world of dew is a world of dew. And yet, and yet— Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 One of the main themes of Japanese aesthetics…
