Investors are stampeding to lend to the world’s riskiest companies and countries.  Quartz spotted this trend back in October, and it has just got stronger since. Usually a conservative bunch, bond fund managers now cannot get enough of...

Ben Speaks House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) wrote a letter to  Ben Bernanke and Ben wrote back. The WSJ’s Jon Hilsenrath covered the story (Link). Not surprisingly, Hilsenrath spins the exchange of letters as a...

Last weeks comments by Mario Draghi in which he claimed that he would do ‘whatever it takes’ to save the Euro has markets expecting action. One possible form of that action is an expanded purchase program of...