Paul Brodsky & Lee Quaintance run QB Partners, a private macro-oriented investment fund based in New York. This month we identify the nexus of the current economic problems and propose a solution to fix them. We discuss why we think our proposal would work, why some policy makers probably alread...

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (January 12 – 18, 2009) Investor sentiment around the globe was negatively impacted during 2009’s second full week of trading as a barrage of bleak economic and corporate news offered more confirmation of a deepening recession, bringing ...

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (Dec 15 - 21, 2008) “Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity [greed!] is what is doing us in,� said James Reston, former New York Times journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner. Another chapter in deali...