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BACK IN THE PALEOCAPITALISTIC ERA, as long ago as 10 years, anthropologists studying the breeding, feeding and plumage patterns of Wall Street concentrated on carnivores -- called gunslingers -- grownup frat boys in yellow ties and red suspenders who peddled junk bonds, drove BMWs and bought $2 million co-ops on Manhattan...
Two trillion dollars in mortgages is now bound up in mortgage-backed securities, up from zero two decades ago. All told, there's a huge speculative overlay on stocks, bonds, mortgages, corn, hogs, etc., owned by regular people in the real world, which the derivative people refer to as "the...
How can the average investor in stocks and bonds down here in the underlying protect himself or herself if more of these shenanigans lead to a general calamity? One way is to avoid owning shares in companies that are the biggest players in derivatives. This would include several large banks...
Derivatives, which are based on such real assets as stocks and bonds, work like most professional betting games. They have a zero-sum outcome, always producing a winner and a loser. The bettors put up their money, and the people who run the casino -- a bank, a brokerage house or...
Derivatives have clearly heightened the anxiety in stock, bond and currency markets around the world in the weeks since the U.S. Federal Reserve began raising interest rates for the first time in five years. The Fed's move on Feb. 4 led the aggressive speculators who run high-rolling investment...