Welcome to my weekly recap of articles I’ve read on topics of finance, markets, and investing. All are on open questions I’m interested in. Selected tweets HT @chigrl & @StockCats Skip the weirdly puritanical sex-talk anecdote, read on for the Pontificator-in-Chief’s zero bound observations LINK When will investors know if current global monetary policies will succeed? […]
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$500B in loans to the rich, Helicopter Money, College grads with side jobs, Osmosis power: Open Questions links, Aug. 8
Welcome to my weekly recap of articles I’ve read on topics of finance, markets, and investing. All are on open questions I’m interested in. Inside Wall Street’s Latest Boom: Lending Half A Trillion Dollars To The Ultrarich LINK For Andy Chase of Morgan Stanley, based in Menlo Park, Calif., FORBES’ fourth-ranked wealth advisor, with $37 […]
Debt service rate targets, Shiller on confidence as leading indicator, How to measure Chinese money: Open Questions links, July 25 week
Welcome to my weekly recap of articles I’ve read on topics of finance, markets, and investing. All are on open questions I’m interested in. Debt servicing costs to rise from 1.4%-5.8% of GDP if interest rates normalize LINK The Federal Reserve’s unconventional monetary policy has driven down the cost of the net interest on the […]
Land values never grow, Don’t sleep on the Yield Curve: Open Questions links, July 18 week
Welcome to my weekly recap of articles I’ve read on open questions in finance, markets, and investing. Shiller on anemic long-term growth in land value LINK Already, rules are being changed in many cities, including New York, allowing the little apartments to be built and to accommodate many more people per acre of city land. These […]
Central bank equities boost in a Citi chart, NYTimes writes off Yield Curve: Open Questions links, July 11 week
Welcome to my weekly recap of articles I’ve read on open questions in finance, markets, and investing. Zerohedge features Citi chart with a Central Bank curative for all-time equity highs LINK This Times story writes off the Yield Curve as an indicator because of the supply/demand picture for bonds, doesn’t do the same in pointing to oil […]
Left Bank ’66: Rediscovering Baltimore jazz legends
No one ever said it takes a village to make a jazz album, but that approach can do the trick, as demonstrated by a collaboration between Baltimore Jazz Alliance and the historic Left Bank Jazz Society. A recording of Baltimore’s hottest show on one cold January night in 1966 spent 45 years in the care […]
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“Passing the Axe,” a Baltimore jazz history chapter
Recently I was lucky enough to re-visit Baltimore jazz in my writing as I contributed a chapter to a new history book. My essay, “Passing the axe : the Baltimore saxophone tradition,” appears in Music at the Crossroads, published by Loyola University’s Apprentice House press. As the founding newsletter editor for the Baltimore Jazz Alliance, it was a […]
Mike Stern and Esperanza Spalding, Gil Scott-Heron, Wayne Krantz: NY Press reviews with photos
UPDATE: New York Press overhauled their website, breaking links to older stories. Below are copies of reviews I wrote of three favorite shows: Mike Stern with Esperanza Spalding, Gil Scott-Heron, Wayne Krantz. Jazz cats shred underground as the world burns for Bieber When Esperanza Spalding took Best New Artist at the Grammy’s, Justin Bieber fans shrieked and fans […]