Yes, another line from that song I cannot get out of my head - "Loca People". But I replaced "los DJs" with "los central bankers". It seemed appropriate as they are the ones keeping the beat and making this party lively. If it wasn't for DJ Benny B we would have the...
Last year we kicked off the Institutional Investor Fixed Income voting campaign with our "Vote for Pedro" commentary (attached at the end). For those that never saw the movie "Napoleon Dynamite", please read the original commentary first to better understand our...
A few days back, as the spoo was toying with 1350, we wrote a commentary entitled "Shhh!!! Don't tell anyone, Spanish banks have problems". It was a tongue-in-cheek title that attempted to poke fun at all the doom mongers running around stating the obvious - “Spain is...
Any investment professional who does not know that Spanish banks are having a lot of trouble should be fired immediately. This is NOT news - everyone worth their salt is painfully aware that the entire peripheral European banking system is technically insolvent....
On April 30th a new actor will likely arrive on the scene in Frankfurt to spice up the long running surreal horror show that is the ECB. His name is Panicos Demetriades, a Greek Cypriot professor from the University of Leicester with close ties to the only communist...
On April 30th a new actor will likely arrive on the scene in Frankfurt to spice up the long running surreal horror show that is the ECB. His name is Panicos Demetriades, a Greek Cypriot professor from the University of Leicester with close ties to the only communist government in the EMU. Yes, for those […]
