Getting naked: in praise of naked short selling

Getting naked: in praise of naked short selling

| short selling, stock market and equities

Photo by Spencer Tunick , Netherlands 8 (Dream Amsterdam Foundation) 2007 [ link ] If short sellers are considered to be the Mussolinis of t...

Getting rid of the monetary triumvirate

Getting rid of the monetary triumvirate

| medium of account, medium of exchange, store of value

The textbook definition of money is anything that functions simultaneously as a store of value , a medium of exchange , and a medium of acco...

Draghi's fake zero-lower bound and those pesky €500 notes

Draghi's fake zero-lower bound and those pesky €500 notes

| cash, ECB, nominal interest rates, zero lower bound

Having reduced the ECB's overnight target rate to +0.05% and the deposit rate to -0.2%, Mario Draghi confidently told those assembled at...

A market for corporate votes

A market for corporate votes

| corporate voting, short selling, stock market and equities, Warren Buffett

Berkshire Hathaway annual general meeting When you purchase a share you're not only getting the opportunity to make some extra cash. You...

Chopmarks and other distributed verification methods

Chopmarks and other distributed verification methods

| bills of exchange, bitcoin, coins, fintech, Ripple

A 1795 Spanish dollar, minted in Mexico, with several chopmarks One of the most interesting things about bitcoin, ripple, and other cryptocu...

Quibbling with the language of trade

Quibbling with the language of trade

| Borges problem, moneyness

The way we ascribe labels to things results in the creation of categories, and this in turn affects the construction of our mental landscape...

Using restricted stock studies to measure liquidity

Using restricted stock studies to measure liquidity

| barter, liquidity premium, stock market and equities

I like to say that everything is money, which is just another way of saying that all goods are liquid to some degree or other. Whether it be...