If you have been involved with the markets for the last twenty years, you may recall hearing excessively-optimistic statements such as “you cannot lose money on internet stocks (NYSEARCA:FDN)” in the late 1990s.

Will New SEC Money Market Fund Regulations Cause A Liquidity Crisis? by Alex Barrow, Macro Ops Things could get real interesting in the next few months.

Our workdays often are governed not by priorities or desires but by what’s screaming loudest and closest in our faces.

Two Harbors Investment Corp. (NYSE:TWO) announced their decision to leave the mortgage loan and securitization business. They are still a mortgage REIT, but they decided to leave one niche in the market so they could simplify their presentations and invest capital in more efficient uses.

With the unofficial end of Q2 ’16 earnings season this week, with the Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) report, investors now look forward to September’s earnings reports since we see companies with an August ’16 fiscal year-end or quarter end.

RQuantLib connects GNU R with QuantLib. R is designed as a true computer language with control-flow constructions for iteration and alternation, and it allows users to add additional functionality by defining new functions.

A release of RQuantLib is now on CRAN and in Debian. It contains a lot of new code contributed by Terry Leitch over a number of pull requests. See below for full details but the changes focus on Fixed Income and Fixed Income Derivatives, and cover swap, discount curves, swaptions and more.

Are Lower Private Equity Returns The New Normal? by Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt – Center for Economic and Policy Research U.S. private equity fundraising had its best year ever in 2015 — raising $185 billion.

R has some good tools for importing data from spreadsheets, among them the readxl package for Excel and the googlesheets package for Google Sheets.

Is A Second Passport Only For The Ultra-Wealthy? by Simon Black, Sovereign Man When you think about ‘insurance’, chances are you probably think about term life, home insurance, or liability insurance.