No Laughing Matter….

Originally posted on Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 Ricochet.com, January 31, 2011 reports: In what may be the strangest market indicator ever, a blogger found that the amount of laughter recorded in the official transcripts of Federal Reserve Open Market Committee...

The Fed Goes 0 for 4

Originally posted on Wednesday, February 29th, 2012   “To entrust to science … more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.” — Hayek What if the Federal Reserve consistently gets it wrong? Consistent wrongness is the verdict...

“Whilst economists dozed”

Originally posted on Monday, February 13th, 2012 “Whilst economists dozed, the academic dream of a hundred years, doffing its cap and gown, clad in paper rags, has crept into the real world by means of the bad fairies–always so much more potent than the...