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January 7, 2007
Sneak Peek at Weekend Reading
Here is a sneak peek at just a few of the links in my weekly Weekend Reading column over at TheStreet.com today:- GM is set to announce a new effort to build an electric vehicle (but it requires a battery that won't be available until 2012) (WSJ)
- Gladwell on analyzing companies in an age of too much information (New Yorker)
- Books: P.J. O'Rourke reads Adam Smith (so you don't have to) in a well-reviewed new book (Amazon)
- How being geographically large explains the U.S. policy response to climate change (NY Times)
- Dollars and doldrums in Canada's tar sands (Washington Post)
- The impending glut of U.S. ethanol plants (CS Monitor)
- U.S. attorney Kevin Ryan in interview tips major option backdating actions to come (S.F. Chronicle)
- "H&Q" biotech conference this week in San Francisco set to be big and market-moving (S.F. Chronicle)
- San Diego homebuilders cutting back for first time in a decade (SD U-T)
- Central banker anti-inflationary zeal is causing global liquidity drain (Bloomberg)
- Economic survey of the Euro area for 2007 (OECD)
- Research: Interesting new look at volatility and stock performance (SSRN)
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This is a great read - I would argue Gladwell over makes his point, but it is well stated.
Now I want a Part II that explores the "conflicts of interest" in the financial services community - Banking and Research as a starting point. Further to this point, how the barriers to entry to get into the current "capital markets" business have also contributed to making community that let's these types of scandals take place.
His point is correct - it is the fault of investors. The uneducated individual investor has about as much "right" to be investing there life savings in companies like Enron as they do taking their savings to play in the World Poker Championships, when they know nothing about playing poker.
Sorry for the lack of context in the last comment - I was referring to the Gladwell article in the New Yorker.
[Update] Apparently Gladwell does have thoughts on my previous comment... and even goes further.
http://gladwell.typepad.com/gladwellcom/
Estelle,
Ponyfish is a nice service that allows you to create RSS feeds for RSS-less sites (in the same space, I found Feed43, WotzWot, FeedFire, and FeedYes). It took 2 minutes to create a feed that tracks Paul's articles on TheStreet:
http://www.ponyfish.com/feeds/11412EhoyJmWe
Best,
Greg
Would you please be able to tell me how one can not get an RSS feed to your weekly Weekend Reading post on theStreet.com, I've gone to the site, to your weekly article and I can't seem to locate the RSS link anywhere?