©2016 Bloomberg View O0Y3V76KLVR7 JPMorgan JPMorgan tweeted its earnings this morning. They were good, at $1.32 per share, up quarter-on-quarter but down year-on-year, and “much of the improvement in profit came from continuing cuts to the bank’s expenses and work force.” Here are the press release, thepresentation and the financial supplement. Elsewhere in big
published May 26th 2016, 1:22 pm, by Noah Smith (Bloomberg View) — The just-published book “Concrete Economics,” by University of California-Berkeley professors Brad DeLong and Stephen S. Cohen, needs an expanded sequel — 900 pages long, with charts, data, theory and an exhaustive list of historical case studies. That book