June 4, 2008

SEC Events, Past and Upcoming

Two SEC events, one past and one upcoming, worth watching: Chairman Chris Coxe hangs with six former SEC chairs (link) Roundtable on interactive data (link)...

More Fun with Real Estate

Here is an amusing and glib bit (including yours truly) on the TheStreet.com TV about the 2-for-1 real estate deal in San Diego that has gotten so much press....

Links: Geography and Traders, Ed McMahon's Foreclosure, etc.

Some quick links on a day that has me preoccupied with phone calls, tradespeople, and an untimely flat tire. Traders within 50 miles of New York outperform those further away (SSRN) Long memory and super-fat tails in financial markets (SSRN)...

How the Web Was Won: An Oral History of the Interweb

The July issue of Vanity Fair contains a fascinating oral history of the Internet and the web. It tells how the former came to be, how it begat the latter, how the web boom played out, and it takes us...