While people focus on Greece, Spain and if Facebook is a bubble, the derivatives market is still exploding. Here are some thoughts by mainly Wilmott on notional value, derivatives, regulation and crashes. Via Daily Finance. One of the biggest risks to the world’s financial health is the $ 1.2 quadrillion derivatives market. It’s complex, it’s unregulated, and it ought to be of concern to w ...

Reader Tim Wallace provides an interesting chart of apparel sales in the US by price and by unit volume. In this case, volume is likely the more telling statistic. click on chart for sharper image Tim writes ... Hi Mish As always, I am watching imports, especially with fascination the apparel imports. In the attached graph we see that dollars and units run mostly in slope lock-step until the crash of appare ...

Stratfor analyst Adriano Bosoni examines Germany’s domestic political dilemma as it tries to manage the Eurozone crisis. Video below. ...