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The loss of Justice Scalia, and the lack of a replacement, has had obvious impacts on the Supreme Court itself. It’s thrown some outcomes into question and even inspired Justice Thomas to speak up. But now the realigned, eight-justice Court is starting to have a clear effect on litigants. At least one major company is […]

Data security remains a top concern among in-house counsel and for good reason. A breach can bring hefty fines, result in expensive litigation, and damage a brand. But breaches are also preventable. If you’re not already taking action to ensure your cybersecurity, or if you need to step your game up (and we all do), […]

Gone are the days when you could get away with a website and wall of text. Today, the Internet is dominated by the visual as much as the textual — and savvy lawyers know that they need to take advantage video and images, especially when it comes to social media. But what about GIFs? Those […]

In our ongoing series of Top 3 Cool Legal Jobs of the Week, we scanned the pages of Indeed to bring you the theme of the week: Academia. Every job opportunity listed below is courtesy of an institution of higher education. Even schools need schooling in the law. Take a glance at the job descriptions […]

Legendary billionaire investor Jim Rogers is certain that the U.S. economy will be in recession in the next 12 months. During an interview on BloombergTV, he explained why he had covered his position in the Japanese yen, saying that the nation is “printing a lot” of the currency. Rogers also warned that there is a […]

Authored by Steve H. Hanke of The Johns Hopkins University. Follow him on Twitter @Steve_Hanke. Beijing can be big and bold when it meets reality. Remember when Zhu Rongji, China’s former economic tsar, gave 30 million workers pink slips, privatized hundreds of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and swept many others into the dust bin? Beijing has […]

“Do not come to Europe. “Do not believe the smugglers. Do not risk your lives and your money. It is all for nothing.” That’s from Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, and as you can see, one Eurocrat after the other is now set to go full Viktor Orban in an effort to prove, […]Read More

“Uncertainty” exploded in January for The Fed, and after today’s “great” (surging job gains) and “terrible” (plunging wages) jobs data (as well as surging current inflation and plunging inflation expectations), we can only imagine Yellen will be even more confused at March’s meeting. Source: @Not_Jim_Cramer Time for a stock market selloff to force The Fed […]Read More

US financials are tumbling after The Fed proposed a rule that would limit banks with $500 bln or more of assets from having net credit exposure to a “major counterparty” in excess of 15% of the lender’s tier 1 capital. Bloomberg reports that The Fed’s governors plan to vote today on the proposal. The implications […]Read More

The last 3 weeks have been a near unprecedented rip higher in stocks… as markets anticipated G-20 cooperative actions (and then BoJ and ECB follow-through) creating a vicious short-squeeze bounce.. This has sent The McClellan Oscillator to its most overbought since January 2009… What happened then? The Group of 20 leaders from major developed and […]

Today marked the 13th consecutive day of positive HY fund flows (bringing total to $8.6bn)… But as Credit Suisse explains, the nature of this demand is ‘different’… Investors likely using the ETFs as a placeholder for cash in the absence of new supply, with HY issuance down ~74% year on year. With ballooning ETF inflows […]Read More

They are pulling out all the stops on this one… [embedded content] Another chaotically wild week… Small Caps (Russell 2000) up 4.65% – biggest week since Oct 2014 S&P 500 up 3% – best week in 3 months Dow Transports up 3.7% – best week since Dec 2015 “Most Shorted” stocks up 8.8% – biggest […]Read More