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Behind Enemy Lines?
It’s hard to work in finance and ignore the Occupy movements. In Chicago, the participants march past our offices on a regular basis. The whispers and rumors of some of the supposed policy proposals...
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Attain’s Top 13 Investing Movies- Ever.
No, we’re not turning into an entertainment industry blog – but after our interview with Margin Call producer Neal Dodson, it was only natural for us to be talking about other films with high drama in...
View ArticleThe Reformed Broker Reforms Financial Lit
If you follow the Attain Blog, you know it’s no secret that we’re fans of Josh Brown over at The Reformed Broker. He tells it like it is with a sense of humor and humility, and that same refreshing...
View ArticleWeekend Reads
Just like that, what once was wall-to-wall coverage of the government shutdown and debt ceiling debate has now shifted to the major push by stocks after our nation’s leaders were able to come to an...
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No, Bloomberg, the managed futures industry is not a scam
The phone calls and emails started coming in heavy Monday, October 7th. When are you guys going to put up a response to the Bloomberg piece? Where’s your Bloomberg rebuttal? We need you guys to write...
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Weekend Reads
If something is newsworthy, but nobody reports on it or talks about it, is it still “news?” We ask ourselves this question today, as earlier this morning; the CME tweeted about a power surge cutting...
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Did everyone miss the Satire memo with “The Wolf of Wall Street?”
We’ll admit.. Being the movie fanatics that we are, when the trailers were released for “The Wolf of Wall Street,” everyone from our office crowded around a computer to watch the outlandish, crazed,...
View ArticleNatural Gas Linkfest
We’ve talked not so long ago about Natural Gas becoming boring, if not an outright flight to quality trade for many (in the Jap Yen, it can’t go any lower mold), but it didn’t used to be that way. The...
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Wall St. Sucks at Predicting Interest Rates, and so does Everyone Else
Raise your hand if you’ve been waiting, and waiting, and waiting for interest rates to finally rise. No way rates could stay at zero forever we all said in 2010, and again in ’11, and ’12… and then...
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