200912-01

Despite the greater public visibility of stock markets

200912-02

Futures markets exist in a range of real and financial commodities; options are traded on individual stocks, stock indexes, and futur es contracts

200912-03

Calls and puts on stocks have been traded for a long time, but the trading was fairly thin

200912-04

Trading in financial futures (stocks, bonds, and currencies) accounts for almost 70% of the total

200912-05

That means that trading in money itself, rather than monetary claims on underlying real assets

200912-06

Ironically, that means that analysts and traders in brokerage houses use the behavior of their own customers as a contrary indicator

200912-07

Trade credits, like those between GM and its parts suppliers or between garment makers and department stores

200912-08

The top 0.5% of stockowners held 58.6% of all publicly traded stock

200912-09

And the stock market contributes virtually nothing to the financing of outside investment

200912-10

It's hard to sell a stock or trade a currency

200912-11

Individuals who deal with brokers can trade stocks, bonds, options, and other exotic instruments

200912-12

The issuance and trading of securities is mainly the province of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

200912-13

The trading desk is supposed to be insulated from the rest of the firm through a so-called Chinese wall

200912-14

Heres a view of how that trade is plied, from a long-time practitioner, John Liscio

200912-15

But direct investment flows to the Third World were concentrated in only a handful of countries

200912-16

The founding father of modern free trade theory

200912-17

Cost of playing with other peoples money

200912-18

This is known as the equity premium puzzle in the trade

200912-19

Foreign exchange traders suspect that the Clinton adminstration would be happy to see the dollar fall some more

200912-20

In classical economics, money is held to be neutral a mere lubricant to trade

200912-21

Last on the list is selling new stock to public investors

200912-22

Cantor speculated that high leverage may encourage a risk-averse attitude on the part of management

200912-23

There are no transaction costs in trading securities

200912-24

Even though information on insider trading is fairly widely available, the market apparently does not make adequate use of it

200912-25

Moreover, despite the advent of computerized trading techniques such as portfolio insurance and index arbitrage

200912-26

And traders trade on these models

200912-27

In practical terms, savings and investment are balanced through changes in inventories

200912-28

That changes in the stock of money will affect the price level, and with it interest rates, as will temporary fluctuations in trade

200912-29

Monetarism: money all, money nothing

200912-30

While investment can be congested through a shortage of cash difficulty in amassing borrowed money under the finance motive it never can be congested by a shortage of savings

200912-31

Investment risks must be eliminated, or reduced

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