Oxstones Investment Club™By Prieur du Plessis, from investmentpostcards, Byron Wien, Vice Chairman of Blackstone (BX 16.76 ↑1.82%) Advisory Partners, yesterday issued his list […]
Give the Gift of Capitalist Understanding
The enormous tragedy for young people today is that so many are sealed off by law from any involvement in […]
Global financial system
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The global financial system (GFS) is the financial system consisting of institutions and regulators that […]
Inside the Fed in 2006: A Coming Crisis, and Banter
Inside the Fed in 2006: A Coming Crisis, and Banter By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM | New York Times WASHINGTON — As […]
Why Goldman Is Surprised By The Market’s Reaction To The Twist, And What’s Next For The Fed?
by Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge, After spending the last few weeks ‘helping’ the Fed with its agenda, Goldman Sachs’ Andrew […]
In Asia, Hello to Faster Trades and Goodbye to Lunch Hour
From NY Times, JETHRO MULLEN, HONG KONG – Nearly 25 years after the fictional financier Gordon Gekko declared in “Wall […]
Pretty Good for Government Work
By WARREN E. BUFFETT, NY Times, DEAR Uncle Sam, My mother told me to send thank-you notes promptly. I’ve been […]
A More Integrated Latin America
By Claus Born, Senior Executive Director, Templeton Emerging Markets Group, At the end of November 2010, Chile, Colombia and Peru […]
Kiss Your Assets Goodbye When Certainty Reigns: Barry Ritholtz
By Barry Ritholtz , Bloomberg, “The markets hate uncertainty.” If you wandered anywhere near a television in advance of the […]
Are Google Searches Affecting the Stock Market?
By Catherine Mayer A joint study by academics in Germany and the U.S. sheds new — and disturbing — light […]