June 18, 2008
There is riveting reading in the just-decided case of CSX Corporation vs. Children's Investment Fund. Yes, it's a court filing, but nowhere else are you likely to get so detailed and lucid a discussion of how a major investor works...
Very nice interactive chart from Forbes showing crude oil prices in nominal and real terms from 1861 until today. Fascinating stuff. (Thanks to a reader for pointing it out to me.) [via Forbes]...
Interesting to look at the effect of today's Tiger Woods news -- he is taking the rest of the year off for surgery and rehab -- on Nike, his main sponsor. The story broke on Twitter around 11:30am EST, and...
My friend Jeff has two new missives up about his preparations and playing at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. If you recall, Jeff is a highly successful trader, both on his own and for a large asset...
I don't know do much (any) sports here, but I have to say I'm in awe of Tiger Woods. He won the U.S. Open last weekend despite an ACL rupture and a rehab-related stress fracture of the tibia? That is,...
A few more thinks worth reading this morning as FedEx f***s the market: Is post-9/11 paranoia causing a decline in tall building occupancy rates? (Harvard) Correlation between time spent watching television and on computer is not significant among obese people...
I got into a discussion yesterday with a colleague about financial performance measures. We started off talking about hedge fund managers being selective about such things, and then got to mulling venture capitalists comparing fund performance to public market indices...
Today's looking like another meeting-fest, so a few quick links that others may find interesting: What is the probability of the Large Hadron Collider destroying the universe? (Overcoming Bias) Consumers report feeling worse now than in other deeper economic downturns....
