Best in Show
The below was submitted by Satyajit Das.In the mock-umentary Best in Show, Christopher Guest mercilessly portrays the world of dog shows, following five dogs and their owners...
Guest post: John Kemp on the ONS and the modern cult of statistics
Thanks to John Kemp, analyst at Reuters and long-time FT Alphaville favourite, for letting us cross-publish his column this morning. An archive of John’s work can be found here....
A super contango in fear
This is a guest post for FT Alphaville by Theo Casey, a columnist at Futures & Options World, blogging on the back of FOW’s European Equity Options conference in Amsterdam....
Book excerpt: “Backstage Wall Street”, by Josh Brown
FT Alphaville pal Josh Brown, who blogs as The Reformed Broker, just released his first book, Backstage Wall Street. Here we present a two-part excerpt from Chapter 16, “Tales...
Mayo on Greg Smith and the ABCs of change
Merry Sheils, a finance writer and former portfolio manager, submits this guest post for FT Alphaville after an interview with Mike Mayo on Wednesday. She blogs at merryssimplefinance.blogspot.com....
In Holland, the future is now
Matt Steinglass, the FT’s Netherlands correspondent, submits this guest post about the projected Dutch budget deficit and how language affects attitudes towards debt. The...
Guest post: Time for a formal inquiry into British QE
On the third anniversary of the launch of quantitative easing in the UK, Dan Conaghan, author of The Bank – Inside the Bank of England, believes the Treasury Select Committee...
Guest post: Post-Modern Fiscal Theory
The following is a guest post from Chris Cook, a senior research fellow at the Institute for Security and Resilience Studies at University College London. His work is focused on...
Petmezas: It pays to pay investment bankers
From Prof Dimitris Petmezas, Chair in Finance at Surrey Business School, University of Surrey… Investment banks, and particularly top ones, have been in the firing line...
Guest post from OWS: Too Big to Fail is Too Big to Ignore
The note below has been prepared by the Alternative Banking Working Group of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. As with the prior note published on FT Alphaville, we present it —...
Guest post: While Rome is burning
From Alberto Saravalle, managing partner at Bonelli Erede Pappalardo_______What happens to M&A while Rome is burning? In the past few months Italy has been in the midst of a political,...
The Occupy Wall Street bank
Presented below is a note prepared for the December 4th meeting of the Occupy Wall Street General Assembly by its alternative banking working group. We present it – without comment –...
