Andrew Huszar is a senior fellow at Rutgers Business School and a former Morgan Stanley managing director. In 2009-10, he managed the Federal Reserve’s $1.25 trillion agency mortgage-backed security purchase program. He writes in The Wall Street Journal what the rest of us already know: that economic policy in America has been made deliberately for the financial industry and nobody else: …
Forget What They Say – Everybody Loves Debt!
As part of my research for the inaugural issue of the The Garland Report Monthly, I am researching the debt structures behind cities, regions and countries that are going broke. A shocking picture is emerging. Given the potential mayhem behind the events of 2008, you would think that a complete sea change might have been in order. After all – …
Is the surveillance society a good financial investment?
I can always rely on my friend and colleague Jim Lee to figure out the financial implications of future trends. He is the only trained futurist I know who is also a serious financial engineer. As usual, his view of the revelations about NSA surveillance are insightful. His view is that America has already invested big money in surveillance – …