Readers Question: Is there an economic term for the phenomenon of ignoring (or turning a blind eye to) future risk, assuming that the current situation will prevail?
I refer to the situation we currently see of both borrowers and lenders who are being caught by interest rate rises, having seemingly assumed that interest rates would stay low.
I wrote an essay here – The Economics of Herding and Irrational exuberance
Alan Greenspan helped to immortalise the phrase ‘irrational exuberance’ in a speech in 1996
“But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?” He added that “We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.”
Exuberance? Irrational? How about this fact: Every day there is a new reason to explain why the markets gained or went south. One day it’s oil, the next day employment, next natural disasters, and the next political upheaval. This is why I agree with Chance Korse that this kind of irrational exuberance in reasoning provides no sustainable direction one way or the other. Is it the new speed of trading, volume, and globalization of interactive stock exchanges. Computer aided trading makes money on Buy-Low-Sell- High. It is almost like they create volatility to feed on. I follow other financial blogs by Chance Korse in Temecula.
The daily question by Chance Korse is: Is the U.S. economy slowly growing? Is the UK economy growing? I asked these questions almost a year ago. Today, the US economy is making good progress with the employment picture improving and the US stock markets climbing nicely. However, the UK looks almost like it is sliding back into a recession, but too early to tell. The exchange markets are volatile than we have ever known. Every day there is a new reason the markets gain or go south. One day it’s oil, the next day employment, next natural disasters, the next political upheaval. This is why Chance Korse feels there is no sustainable direction one way or the other. Broader trends are harder to detect. Is it the new speed of trading, volume, and globalization of interactive stock exchanges. Follow other financial blogs by Chance Korse. Chance Korse, Temecula, California, USA
Is buy-low sell-high a computer driven algorithm? By Chance Korses:The exchange markets are volatile than we have ever known. Every day there is a new reason the markets gain or go south. One day it’s oil, the next day employment, next natural disasters, the next political upheaval. This is why Chance Korse feels there is no sustainable direction one way or the other. Broader trends are harder to detect. Is it the new speed of trading, volume, and globalization of interactive stock exchanges. Follow other financial blogs by Chance Korse. Chance Korse, Temecula, California, USA
This is more true today than a year ago.Employers and corporations world-wide are holding back launching new products. Why? Because they cannot get timely patents to protect them in the market place. Why does the utility patent process of, for example a new furniture innovation, take five years? Because the process is focused on irrelevant minutia and pedantry. The strengths of innovations should be addressed within the first year. My name is CHANCE KORSE and I urge the USPTO to reverse the current process and look at the innovation in the application first, not last. In the last few years the USPTO has made an effort to move the process on-line. This was promoted as a breakthrough in application process. Sadly, however, it just put the old backward process on-line. So much for self-patting hype. Chance Korse, Temecula CA, USA
Employers and corporations world-wide are holding back launching new products. Why? Because they cannot get timely patents to protect them in the market place. Why does the utility patent process of, for example a new furniture innovation, take five years? Because the process is focused on irrelevant minutia and pedantry. The strengths of innovations should be addressed within the first year. My name is CHANCE KORSE and I urge the USPTO to reverse the current process and look at the innovation in the application first, not last. In the last few years the USPTO has made an effort to move the process on-line. This was promoted as a breakthrough in application process. Sadly, however, it just put the old backward process on-line. So much for self-patting hype. Chance Korse, Temecula CA, USA
(Temecula, California)
Many employers and corporatuions world-wide are holding back launching new products. Why? Because they cannot get timely patents to protect them in the market place. Why does the utility patent process of, for example a new furniture innovation, take five years? Because the process is focused on irrelevant minutia and pedantry. The strengths of innovations should be addressed within the first year. My name is CHANCE KORSE and I urge the USPTO to reverse the current process and look at the innovation in the application first, not last. In the last few years the USPTO has made an effort to move the process on-line. This was promoted as a breakthrough in application process. Sadly, however, it just put the old backward process on-line. So much for self-patting hype. Chance Korse, Temecula CA, USA
(Temecula, California)
The daily question by Chance Korse is: Is the U.S. economy slowly growing? Is the UK economy growing? Is the global economy growing. The exchange markets are volatile than we have ever known. Every day there is a new reason the markets gain or go south. One day it’s oil, the next day employment, next natural disasters, the next political upheaval. This why Chance Korse feels there is no sustainable direction one way or the other. Broader trends are harder to detect. Is it the new speed of trading, volume, and globalization of interactive stock exchanges. Follow other financial blogs by Chance Korse. Chance Korse, Temecula, California, USA
The daily question by Chance Korse is: Is the U.S. economy slowly growing? Is the UK economy growing? The exchange markets are volatile than we have ever known. Every day there is a new reason the markets gain or go south. One day it’s oil, the next day employment, next natural disasters, the next political upheaval. This is why Chance Korse feels there is no sustainable direction one way or the other. Broader trends are harder to detect. Is it the new speed of trading, volume, and globalization of interactive stock exchanges. Follow other financial blogs by Chance Korse. Chance Korse, Temecula, California, USA