by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Apr 21, 2025 | Risk Report
In the seminal Danish movie The Celebration (1998), a family and guests are gathered for the 60th birthday of the patriarch, Helge. Christian, the oldest son, gives Helge the choice between the yellow and the green speech. Helge chooses the green one, which turns out...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Mar 10, 2025 | Risk Report
This is by far one of my favorite German words. The direct translation is dark doldrums, and if that doesn’t say everything there is to say, I don’t know what does. Dunkelflaute’s more modern meaning is a period of time, often several days, with little or no sunlight...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Feb 24, 2025 | Risk Report
Someone on the internet said that to get people to read your academic papers, you just had to put Harry Potter and in front of the title. Another thing that seems to work for attention is applying the AI lens: How Will AI Affect the Way Snails Perceive Color? The AI...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Feb 10, 2025 | Risk Report
It is common practice in both middle school and stress testing for the teacher/regulator to require you to show all the intermediate steps you went through to get to the final result. On the student and bank side, this scrutiny is often construed as unnecessary,...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Feb 3, 2025 | Risk Report
Agreement has been in short supply lately, except when it comes to inflation being a pain that everyone wants to stop or at least get into a reasonable range of, say, 2%. As can be seen on the graph below, the Fed has been working its delicate tool of the interest...
