Feb 18 A political horse race where you can actually bet on the future president By Paul Solman Whether you call it betting or investing, one thing is clear: political prediction markets are surprisingly accurate predictors of presidential races. Continue reading
Feb 01 With market bubbles, what goes up doesn't always come down By Making Sen$e Editor Do market booms inevitably result in busts? History suggests otherwise, according to a new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research. Continue reading
Jan 21 Can the Fed really fight global economic instability? By Vikram Mansharamani Recent events in the global economy are increasing the likelihood that the Fed will have to reverse its course on raising interest rates. Continue reading
Jan 09 Watch 3:39 How will China's volatile stock market affect the U.S. economy? By PBS News Hour The crash in the Chinese stock market this week unnerved investors around the globe, as the world's second largest economy suffered from volatile trading and falling currency. NPR Senior Business Editor Marilyn Geewax joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the country's… Continue watching
Aug 27 3 ways China's economic slowdown will affect your finances By Vikram Mansharamani Global financial markets are bouncing around like a Mexican jumping bean, driven in large part by China’s popping stock market bubble. And while it’s fun to talk about China’s equity boom and bust, the real story to focus on has… Continue reading
Aug 25 Nobel Laureate Robert Shiller says human nature, not China, explains market volatility By Robert Shiller Was the roller coaster week on Wall Street the bursting of a speculative bubble?… Continue reading
Aug 24 Tumultuous day of trading sends stocks on roller coaster ride By Kristen Doerer After a midday recovery, U.S. stock markets dove once again. At close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had lost nearly 600 points, and the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ lost roughly 4 percent. Continue reading
Aug 24 John Maynard Keynes on the stock market this past week By Paul Solman Keynes, perhaps the 20th century most eminent economist, had quite the theory about the stock market. Its relevance was too striking to resist. Continue reading
Jul 11 Watch 4:13 What's behind the boom and bust cycles in Chinese markets? By PBS News Hour Big boom and bust cycles are typical for China’s stock markets, which are often marked by huge volatility, as we saw this week. Orville Schell of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society joins us from Boston to… Continue watching
Apr 17 How a single computer system failure halted global financial markets By Marina Lopes Traders pay upwards of $20,000 a year for access to the service, which serve as their eyes and ears into financial markets around the world. Bloomberg blamed the two-hour outage on internal network issues. Continue reading