Quantitative Easing and its Impact in 2014
image courtesy freedigitalphotos.net and suphakit73 In 2008, as the US economy began its historic slide into the Great Recession, one solution to bolster the sagging economy was the [...]
High Frequency Trading: New Book Stirs Controversy
Michael Lewis, the author of books such as The Blind Side and Moneyball, has written another book, this time focusing on the world of high frequency electronic trading (HFT). In [...]
Risk Management on the Rise
Recently, we have been seeing a growing need for independent risk functions, an indicator that competition for investment and operations risk management as well as compliance talent is on the [...]
Summer Chat: How Will Immigration Reform Impact the U.S. Economy?
My friends and I were talking the other day about immigration reform and how it might affect the economy. While we have varying perspectives on how to go about it, [...]
The Fiscal Cliff and The Consequences of Inaction
With the US Presidential election finally over, there is yet another looming uncertainty making many in the business community nervous: the fiscal cliff. The fiscal cliff is a bundle of [...]