Paul Samuelson

• Just Technicalities?

  By Kenneth Silber, Research  |  October 1, 2010

  The late Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson, key figure in his profession and author of its biggest-selling textbook, wrote scornfully about "gypsy tea-leaf readers, Wall...

• Efficiently Controversial

  By Kenneth Silber, Research  |  April 1, 2010

  Financial theory is in flux. Ideas that once were widely accepted among financial economists are in dispute. In particular, the efficient-markets hypothesis -- which dominated...

• What's the Future of Financial Products?

  By Staff Writer  |  June 1, 2008

  David Macchia: There's a lot at stake for people as they approach retirement, many with arguably insufficient assets, or certainly not the optimum amount of...

• Capital Ideas Revisited

  By Staff Writer  |  May 1, 2000

  After 50 years of observing market behavior, Peter