June 17, 2008

China's Cement Fixation

Eye-popping chart up over at The Oil Drum showing the extent of China's current cement fixation. Amazing stuff. What in the world are these people building? And if someone wants to put this into a Google Sheets animated bubble graph,...

Should Analysts Who Don't Own Stocks Be Trusted?

You've almost certainly seen it: Every time an analyst on CNBC comes on to talk about a stock there is The Screen. We find out whether they own the stock, their family owns the stock, their firm owns the stock,...

Links: Games, Olberman, Angels, Megafires, etc.

Buried in meetings and travel, so a few quick links: The truce between humans and fires has burst in an era of megafires (American Scholar) Controversial stuff on VGchartz as NPD usurpers in market research (Radar) Special issue on angel...