Christopher Whalen

Christopher Whalen is the chairman of Whalen Global Advisors and the author of "Ford Men." This article was first published by the Institutional Risk Analyst.

Elon Musk: Tesla’s Single Point of Failure

Elon Musk’s meltdown in the pages of The New York Times is a reminder that enterprises need both ...

Viewpoints August 21, 2018
The Next Real Estate Bubble Is Popping

Since the lows of June, financials have rebounded more than 10 percent, even as trade and the flattening ...

Viewpoints July 31, 2018
Why Goldman Sachs Is Not a Bank

In these steamy days of July, bank earnings are more interesting than usual, in part because our friends ...

Viewpoints July 29, 2018
What If Chairman Powell Is Wrong About Interest Rates?

President Donald Trump caused a bit of a stir last week when he suggested that rising interest rates ...

Viewpoints July 26, 2018
Fed Tightening Is Hitting Financials

Even as the Federal Open Market Committee raised short-term interest rates last week, the Trump administration doubled down ...

Viewpoints June 29, 2018
Best Move for Musk: Sell Tesla

Great entrepreneurs polarize, and taking the degree of polarization as a yardstick, Tesla's Elon Musk must be a ...

Viewpoints June 18, 2018
Is an Italian Bailout Likely?

The reality in Europe is that structural reforms never occur in large member states. # 11% — Bad ...

Viewpoints June 4, 2018
Are We Heading Toward Stagflation?

As major central banks turn off the Electric Kool-Aid drip of easy money, we will soon find out ...

Viewpoints May 11, 2018
The Trouble With Deutsche Bank

Watching the related financial dramas of China’s HNA Group and Germany’s Deutsche Bank AG, we are reminded that ...

World News May 4, 2018
When Will We See the Blockchain Breakthrough?

Blockchain technology has been described as being as transformative as the internet itself, but so far real progress ...

Viewpoints April 20, 2018
China: Between Debt and Trade

Watching the continuing trials of the debt-laden Chinese conglomerate HNA Group Co., we are reminded that the side ...

Viewpoints April 6, 2018
The Yellen Put

The term “Greenspan put” was coined after the stock market crash of 1987 and the later bailout of ...

Economy December 16, 2017