Posted January 22, 2025 by sean Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by Nasdaq: See here to learn more about the Nasdaq 100 ecosystem Get a random Animal Spirits chart here On today’s show, we discuss: Listen here Recommendations: Charts: Tweets/Bluesky: Money Market Funds just saw a weekly inflow of $143 billion, the largest … Read more
China is guiding local mutual funds and insurers to boost their stock purchases in the government’s latest initiative to shore up its ailing equity market as it confronts the threat of higher tariffs. Mutual funds should raise their holdings of onshore equities by at least 10% annually for the next three years, while large state-owned … Read more
It’s hard to find a good criminal these days. I mean a really trustworthy one you can be confident won’t lead you up the garden path with false promises of data breaches. Like this guy yesterday: For my international friends, JB Hi-Fi is a massive electronics retailer down under and they have my data! I … Read more
AI Will Write Complex Laws Artificial intelligence (AI) is writing law today. This has required no changes in legislative procedure or the rules of legislative bodies—all it takes is one legislator, or legislative assistant, to use generative AI in the process of drafting a bill. In fact, the use of AI by legislators is only … Read more
For insurers, “customer” is one word that encompasses individual policyholders, business owners, risk managers, agents and brokers, and others, all with different (often divergent) priorities. For reinsurers – whose primary customers are insurers themselves – “understanding the customer” is particularly challenging. This was part of the motivation behind RiskScan 2024 – a collaborative survey carried … Read more
