I study the impact of quantitative easing by the FED on the prices of internationally traded and dollar denominated commodities (oil) and precious metals (gold, silver, platinum and palladium). Finite distributed lag models suggest that the long run multipliers in regressions of the log of...

Since the dismantling of the Bretton Woods system, gold has delivered average return comparable to the average return delivered by the aggregate US stock market. This suggest that none of the growth and technological improvement gains accrued to the financiers. In the context of modern asset...

CEO remuneration is contentious and so we applaud Jacquart and Armstrong's (2013) systematic evidence-based review. We augment their analysis in two ways. First, we highlight the lack of demonstrated validity of “unaided expert judgment” to set CEO remuneration by pointing out that the...