Cash & Leverage

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Christian Armbruester

Jun 28, 2021

Printing

Why nobody knows where it goes when it comes to quantitative easing. The study of economics basically comes down to supply and demand....

Christian Armbruester

Sep 1, 2020

The Dark Side

How risk-free trading was created and why it was too good to last. In the late eighties, we learned how to use computers to manage our...

Christian Armbruester

Aug 3, 2020

Free Money

Why central banks are doing what they must, and we should all be happy. The Federal Reserve gets a lot of criticism from seemingly...

Christian Armbruester

Jun 29, 2020

Cash, Capital and Collateral

Why we must borrow when the giving is this good. It seems like a lifetime ago when we could put our money into the bank and earn 5%....

Christian Armbruester

Sep 2, 2019

Cash Management

Any portfolio of assets will invariably contain a cash position. You need some to pay the bills and you always need some in reserve,...

Christian Armbruester

Jun 11, 2018

The Price of Orange Juice, Leverage and Arbitrage

Back when I lived in London in the mid-nineties, I used the price of orange juice as a barometer of wealth within the individual...

Christian Armbruester

Jan 8, 2018

The Magic of Leverage

Most people think of leverage as the root of all evil, high risk and that it must be eradicated before any more damage can be done – e.g....