Paul Kedrosky: Random Notes

More random notes that people may find interesting as I clean out the inbox:

Citigroup is ... hiring research analysts this year. The world's largest financial services outfit will add 35 analysts globally (in countries such as Brazil, Russia, and in emerging marets). This is coming at a time when Citi's largest competitors, like Goldman Sachs, are shedding high-cost analyst headcount.
The current LCD panel price slide has put us at a tipping point where prices at common break-points, like 32", are "only" double that of CRTs. Many have long said that this is the point at which the LCD television market will finally break out, but it has recently felt to me like consumers weren't waiting
A new click fraud study from an anti-fraud vendor [ed. grain of salt required] says that around 14% of clicks on advertisements sold by search engines are fraudulent. It also says that such clicks rose to 14.1% from 13.7% from the first to the second quarter.
There is a fun study in the journal Physical Review E that shows the periodicity and decay of readership of online news stories. The gist: If it doesn't get read within 36 hours of being posted, it won't get read. Here's the nut figure from the paper: