Big Picture
This is from April 2009, but in light of recent data points, I thought it was worth revisiting: > Source: Jess Bachman via Mint…Read
Marshall Auerback is a Denver, Colorado-based global portfolio strategist for RAB Capital. ~~~ If the US government had a dollar every time someone proclaimed to learn the lessons of the Great Depression, we probably…Read
I have been arguing for the government to step away from propping up the housing market for several years now. It seems that economists are finally catching up with the idea. Today’s NYT has an article, titled Housing Woes…Read
I have always been fascinated by the Tony Blair paradox. On the one hand, he seems like an intelligent, articulate, thoughtful politician (at least from NY). On the other hand, he dragged Britain into George W. Bush’s…Read
Via Ron Griess of The Chart Store, here is a handy assembly of the past month’s changes, including 3 month, YTD and 1 thru 10 year performances. > click for bigger graphic (“Command/Control” and “+”…Read
I thought this piece from Greg Fielding, a longtime real estate agent, was especially informative. Greg has experience in selling high end property and low end foreclosures, raw land, short sales, development work, apartment…Read
The Last Chapter September 4, 2010 By John Mauldin > The Last Chapter Let’s Look at the Rules Six Impossible Things Killing the Goose Home and Then Europe > This week you will get a kind of preview as this week’s…Read
We know the major ratings agencies suck. We know their business model was payola. We know they sold ratings for cash, committed fraud on structured product investors. We know they hid significant modeling errors, and then hid…Read
Monthly Business Blog Rankings from Wikio Top 20 Business Blogs, according to Wikio, which uses a weighted link based ranking system (see methodology here) 1 The Conscience of a Liberal 2 DealBook – New York Times…Read
Mike Santoli in this mornings Barron’s: Flows into and out of funds, and new investment-product launches, tell a story compatible with the apathy trade notion. A net $42 billion has flowed out of U.S. stock mutual funds…Read
> More photos at automobile mag > Source: Ferrari 458 Italia Has Enough Superlatives to Match the Sticker LAWRENCE ULRICH NYT August 19, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/automobiles/autoreviews/22ferrari-italia.html…Read
“(Do The) Push and Pull (Part 1)” is a 1970 single by Rufus Thomas. This was the only number-one song for Thomas — Billboard Best Selling Soul Singles chart for two weeks in February 1971 — who hit the…Read
Ever wonder which countries have the biggest gold reserves? Which countries produced the most gold? Now, via Money Hacker, you know exactly who and how much: > click for ginormous oversized infographic Source: Money Hacker…Read
George Mobus teaches computer science to undergraduate and graduate students at the Institute of Technology, Computing & Software Systems at the University of Washington, Tacoma. His background is quite broad: He has a PhD in…Read