January 2009
24 posts
Jan 1st
December 2008
31 posts
Dec 30th
Doug Kass' 20 Surprises for 2009 →
Dec 29th
“If the Chicago School stands for anything it stands for the power of free...”
– The Death of Cook - Going Private
Dec 28th
Prius: It’s Not Just a Car, It’s an Emergency... →
Dec 28th
“At the heart of it is the conceit that we (the United States) can tame the...”
– The Death of Cook - Going Private
Dec 27th
Curve Thoughts
The recent move in the US Treasury curve has defied some expectations of how it should behave when a large wave of government borrowing and currency printing is announced. Many trends are fairly easy to spot, but it’s timing and executing on the that trend that will make you the big bucks. We need a series of catalysts to provoke a Treasury unwind and they could come in a number of...
Dec 26th
Dec 23rd
“This study shows that people’s propensity to gamble and their investment...”
– Who Gambles In The Stock Market?
Dec 22nd
Stock Investors Lose Faith, Pull Out Record... →
“More than half of the small investors surveyed still expect annual gains of 10% or more over the next decade — at, or above, historical averages.”
Dec 22nd
The Google Street View Prank →
Dec 20th
Dec 20th
FactSet Research Systems 1Q profit rises 21 pct →
Dec 20th
The Big Picture →
This is a must see
Dec 20th
Dec 20th
Data Visualization: Modern Approaches →
Dec 19th
SEC Gives Social Investing Site kaChing Green... →
Dec 16th
Peter Gammons: If teams wait, big names could be... →
Dec 15th
The link below...
is something I continually struggle with. In this day where probabilities and stats drive almost every line of business decision making, we have been trained to let the numbers do the talking. To some extent, that has been a great thing. But it also has a tendency to take the creativity out of things and replace the “thought experiment” exercise. Successfully navigating the markets and...
Dec 13th
Paul Wilmott's Blog: Magicians And Mathematicians →
Dec 13th
Dec 12th
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“What Wall Street did so well, for so long, was to give people jobs that they...”
– Michael Lewis
Dec 11th
Clout Street →
Between Blagojevich and Daley, this blog is more entertainment than anything lately.
Dec 11th
Dec 11th
Listenjoelaz: Illinois - Nosebleed Photo by...
Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
Dec 6th
“Don’t squeeze anyone. Make other people rich. Align interests and move on. You...”
– great words of wisdom from andy swan which i totally agree with Howard Lindzon (via fred-wilson) Similar to what Goldman Sachs used to preach — “don’t jam the client” — which was the opposite approach of many I-Banks, and part of the reason why some of them no...
Dec 4th
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Dec 4th
Listentuneage: Deodato - “Also Sprach Zarathustra”
Dec 3rd
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Listenjoelaz: Helvetia - Old New Bicycle
Dec 3rd
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