Way back in our June 2021 Update we noted the insistence of several central banks to stick with their historically extreme monetary policy settings, despite clear indication that their traditional …| Convex Strategies
In last month’s Update, we pondered the question “what about the 40?”. This has long been a topic of our own discussions and clearly an issue that rose to the front of many people’s minds in the mo…| Convex Strategies
“Pretium iustum mathematicum, licet soli, Deo notum” Sometimes we get accused of being hard on central bankers. It is, however, not central bankers per se, nor any given particular practitioners, t…| Convex Strategies
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“Mainstream economics is replete with ideas that “everyone knows” to be true, but that are actually arrant nonsense.” Jeremy Rudd. Federal Reserve Board. September 2021. We don’t often go looking f…| Convex Strategies
A question we often get asked, as we discuss building convexity into investment portfolios with large Pension Funds/SWFs/Insurance Companies/Endowments/Banks, is something along the lines of “How m…| Convex Strategies
“Do you know the secret of life? One thing. Just one thing.” Curly Washburn. City Slickers, 1991. We find this a very useful, and accepted, philosophy when it comes to risk management of any activi…| Convex Strategies
If we ever had the means and resources to launch our own academy of finance and economic higher learning, we might dub it Common Sense University and, without question, would appoint Bill White as …| Convex Strategies
What role do central banks play in such philosophical concepts as “the social contract/compact” and the “consent of the governed”? That’s a pretty big rhetorical question, even for us. Central bank…| Convex Strategies
Last month, in our February 2023 Update, “Sharpe World is Nefarious”, we posed this question: “If a bank loses money in accrual books and can continue to fund the losses with government guaranteed …| Convex Strategies