Articles

GIC Member and Chief Global Economist, Cumberland Advisors, Bill Witherell

November 3, 2010

A year ago, my colleague David Kotok wrote a Commentary entitled “2010: The Year to Focus on Sovereign Debt.” That has certainly proved to be correct. The year that is drawing to a close witnessed a welcome recovery in the global economy that was overshadowed by a fiscal crisis in the periphery of the eurozone [...]

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GIC Chair, Bill Dunkelberg: Treasury Dept. and Small Business

October 14, 2010

Dr. William Dunkelberg, provided a Guest Commentary for Cumberland Advisors’ daily Market Commentary on October 14, 2010.

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Former GIC Speaker, Howard Simons: Age, Confidence And Financial Markets: Older Not Bolder

September 10, 2010

The most predictable report in our regular repertoire over the past year has been on monthly mutual fund flow data. The U.S. investor collectively is willing to assume duration and credit risk while shunning equity risk even as stocks become increasingly attractive on a relative valuation basis.

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Former GIC Speaker, Howard Simons: Age, Confidence And Financial Markets: Older Not Bolder

September 10, 2010

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GIC Member, Rachel Ben-Avi: Now You See It, Now You Don’t

August 31, 2010

Acy sticks in my mind. I cannot get him out of my mind. I don’t mind him there. He is the one who touches me. “BP is trying to move out,” he says. “Oil is there,” he says. “We have oil on the bottom of our waterways. 90% of the oil is still there. We [...]

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