August 11, 2008
Talk about slamming the barn door after the cows have all gone, check the eye-popping percentage of U.S. loan officers in the following Federal Reserve chart saying that their firm is tightening credit for home loans. We are at...
I use the following quote too often in presentations, so I might as well come clean and put it up here. It's from physicist Niels Bohr: Tomorrow is going to be wonderful, because tonight I do not understand anything....
Some quick links to things people have sent me that others may find interesting: Why are people from Vermont so much skeptical than the the rest of the U.S. about Michael Phelp's medal haul? (ESPN) Another affordable luxury victim: DISH...
The controversial financial research finding of the week (or maybe year) goes to a new-ish paper (Red and Blue Investing: Values and Finance) looking at the relationship between mutual fund and hedge fund manager performance, and political contributions. The paper,...
Is Amazon's Kindle a e-book reader turning into the iPod of books? It got generally positive reviews at launch, but word of mouth is driving it faster now, with people pushing it on each other increasingly eagerly. Further confirmation...
I love books about investing that aren't about investing. Or, to put it more coherently, I like books that are highly applicable to business & finance without necessarily being explicitly about same. Currently, for example, I'm finishing up Traffic: Why...
