Review Archives - Econ Americas LLC

Brad Katsuyama, CEO of IEX, features prominently in Flash Boys and describes Wall Street as rigged. (Lehigh University)

March 29, 2022

The ‘Flash Boys’ Tax on Market Participants

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Michael Lewis Explains the Financial Club That Lives On

Fergus Hodgson

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Gibbs’s discoveries dethrone well-known leaders of the green-energy movement in the United States. (Stop These Things)

February 28, 2022

‘Planet of the Humans’ Defrocks Faux Environmentalists

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Green-Energy Profiteering Compels Responsible Investment, End to Subsidies

Paz Gómez

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January 10, 2022

Why Financial Genius Will Fail Again

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Roger Lowenstein’s Classic Warns of Human Biases, Moral Hazard

Fergus Hodgson

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E. B. Tucker, author of "Why Gold, Why Now."

E. B. Tucker has written an accessible book that makes the case for precious metals amid inflation and economic turmoil. (Zlato.cz)

May 25, 2021

E. B. Tucker Pens Gold Primer Fit for Our Times

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Why the Shiny Metal Is Pertinent in Twenty-First Century

Fergus Hodgson

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Charles Wheelan speaks at Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire. (Kimball Union)

February 19, 2021

‘Naked Economics’ No Match for ‘Economics in One Lesson’

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Charles Wheelan’s Primer Exhibits Academic Malaise, Splintered Field

Fergus Hodgson

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Matthew Raphael Johnson does more harm than good by writing on Latin America. (Realist Report)

November 23, 2020

Matthew Raphael Johnson’s Perversion of Latin American History

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DIY Book Shows Pitfalls of Putting Ideology before Evidence

Fergus Hodgson

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Rice University, whose mascot is the owl, has for decades been home to two efficient-markets critics. (Rice University)

October 27, 2020

How Efficient Markets Became Academic Dogma

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John Dobelman Delivers Overdue Critique of Financial Orthodoxy

Fergus Hodgson

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Adolfo and Emi pose for a street photographer in Havana, 1960. (Impunity Observer)

October 8, 2020

How the Cuban Revolution Ate Its Own

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Two Brothers Tell the Unvarnished Story of Fidel Castro

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WeWork's 2019 IPO fiasco was a wake-up call for venture capital. (Wikimedia)

June 9, 2020

Can Alternative Investments Withstand Mainstream Scrutiny?

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Once deemed the Wild West of finance, alternative investments have matured and doubled their market share over the past 15 years.

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Emanuel Derman, author of My Life as a Quant and Columbia University professor. (Institute of Physics)

May 20, 2020

What Intellectuals Resent about Laissez Faire

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‘My Life as a Quant’ Reveals Envy of Physicist Turned Financial Engineer

Fergus Hodgson

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