John Maynard Keynes

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  Finding Value in a Loser’s Game

  By Bob Seawright, Madison Avenue Securities  |  September 30, 2011

  As John Kenneth Galbraith famously pointed out, we have two classes of forecasters: those who don’t know and those who don’t know they don’t know.

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  Personal Spending Surges Even as Confidence Sinks: News Analysis

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  August 29, 2011

  What matters more: consumers’ actual spending or an intangible general mood based on survey data?

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  The Perils of Prognostication

  By Bob Seawright, Madison Avenue Securities  |  August 9, 2011

  Strategists from most Wall Street experts predicted 10-12% market growth for 2011 while only two called for minor declines.

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  Keynes’ Theory Turns 75 as Debate on Government Spending Rages On

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  June 21, 2011

  Nobel-prize winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman addressed the plenary session of the conference, held at Keynes’ alma mater, Cambridge University, this week.

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  Crowded Trades and Alpha Don’t Go Together

  By Ben Warwick, Quantitative Equity Strategies  |  January 18, 2011

  John Maynard Keynes was fond of referring to the stock market as a beauty contest.

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  Can the DJIA at 10,000 Inspire "Animal Spirits?"

  By Kathleen McBride, AdvisorOne  |  October 16, 2009

  The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a year-to-date high and jumped above 10,000 on Oct. 14, and the next day hit another high of 10,062.94. Unless you are short, this is good news for you and for your clients.

• Exclusive WM Interview with Economist Robert Shiller

  By Kathleen McBride, AdvisorOne  |  October 2, 2009

  One of the economists whose theories are enjoying something of a renaissance is John Maynard Keynes, and his theory that economics is driven by human psychology.

• Inflation or Deflation? Looking for Signs of Future Prices

  By Francois Gadenne  |  July 1, 2009

  Members of the Retirement Income Industry Association and friends keep asking me a difficult question: Are retirement portfolios more at risk from inflation or from...

• Will Obama's Plan Rebuild the Economy?

  By Alexei Bayer  |  March 1, 2009

  In the 1920s, when the Soviet government was confiscating hidden gold, foreign currency and jewelry from previously wealthy citizens, a joke was making the rounds. An...

• Gold Rush

  By Vanessa Drucker  |  June 1, 2006

  John Maynard Keynes famously labeled gold a "barbaric relic." After bottoming in the summer of 1999, the relic has rebounded, more than doubling in value...