Randall G. Holcombe | Monday March 16, 2020 at 2:54 PM PDT
It’s easy for stock market investors to be discouraged these days, with the market taking such a hit in the wake of the COVID-19 virus. But I’ve been told that a profitable stock market strategy is to buy low, sell high, and by that logic, today’s prices offer a much better deal to investors...
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Alvaro Vargas Llosa | Monday February 12, 2018 at 1:27 PM PST
The danger of seeing the stock market as a measure of political performance is that the government will be tempted to intervene.
Robert P. Murphy | Wednesday November 9, 2016 at 4:59 PM PST
As the markets and pundits react to Donald Trump’s enormous upset victory, let me offer my own reactions. As an economist, I will focus on matters pertaining to economic policy. The Danger of Hubris and Denial. Everybody recognizes that the “experts” and polls were totally wrong. Indeed, I was listening to NPR around 6...
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