Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Top 10 Wealth Quotes of 2011

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From the WSJ's The Wealth Report blog: Yale University just  released its top 10 quotes of the year. The rich, as is their wont, held...

Too Funny: Sometimes You Shouldn't Follow Gurus (MWW; HL; CTRP; CREE)

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From GuruFocus: Weekly Guru Bargains Highlights: MWW, HL, CTRP, LYG, CREE Monster Worldwide Inc. ( MWW ): Down 23% Since Paul Tudor Jone...

The Smartest Sentence on Housing You'll Ever Read (and a real "What were we thinking?" chart)

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From Global Macro Monitor: History of Real Housing Prices Wow!  This chart reprinted by The Atlantic brings flashbacks. We recall sho...

Utility Biz Grudge Match Ahead of EPA Mercury Regs (CEG; CPN; EXC; FPL: PEG)

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 As I said in yesterday's " Best Utilities Picks for New EPA Rules" (FE; GEN) : Very quietly one of the biggest changes in t...

"How Unlucky is 25-Sigma?" (and a huge apology) GS; C; BST; UBS; MER

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 Last week we posted " UPDATED--Barclays Hit With "Immense" Copper Trading Loss; 50 Sigma Move In Cancelled Aluminum Warran...

First it Was the Swedish Butter Smugglers Now Black Market EU Eggs Could Land in England

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A couple weeks ago, during the height of Norway's butter crisis, entrepreneurs from Sweden and Russia were getting the golden goodness ...

The Coming Productivity Shock

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From EconoMonitor: The Real Negative Real Shock Are all the problems in the U.S. economy nominal? Robert Gordon implicitly says no in a...

United-ICAP's Walter Zimmerman: "S&P to 579.57"

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Back in September 2008 Mr. Zimmerman's Bullish case (recession) had the S&P dropping to 791 by May 2010, his Bearish case (depressio...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

"Japan's Secret Plan to Dominate the World"

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Just as one of my mentors used to watch loading docks to spot accounting frauds and the IRS checks water bills to detect tax non-compliance ...

British Treasury Planning for Full-blown Euro Break-up

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They are just gaming the contingency, not 'planning' for it. From the Telegraph:   A ...

"Best Utilities Picks for New EPA Rules" (FE; GEN)

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Very quietly one of the biggest changes in the American economic landscape is about to hit the electricity producing sector and by extension...

"Dow Reverse Head and Shoulders" (DIA)

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From Bespoke Investment Group : On Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average broke and closed above key resistance.  As shown below, the i...

"Brazil Replaces UK As World’s 6th Largest Economy"

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A quick hit from the International Business Times: In what is likely a changing of the guard in the global economic landscape, the surging...

"Will 2012 Be The Next '1932' for the Wealthy?"

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From the Wall Street Journal's Wealth Report blog: For the American wealthy, the year 1932 always conjures The Nightmare Scenario. I...
Friday, December 23, 2011

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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First posted Christmas Eve, 2007. Santa's Carbon Footprint MERRY CHRISTMAS   Ho Ho Ho! Santa may have one of the biggest c...

Dear Paul Krugman: "Food prices will continue to rise in 2012, says USDA"

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Yeah, I got your four year smoothing right here, Professor. From the Los Angeles Times' Money & Co. blog: Get ready for more hig...

Judiciary Ranking Member Grassley, 16 Others Push for 'Exhaustive' Investigation into MF Global Failure

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You don't want to screw around with the farmers, most every one I've ever met can plink a varmint at 500 yards . From The Hill'...

My Nomination for Hat Tip of the Year

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This one required a shout to the tech guy to see if he could save the keyboard. ...The reg cap advantage, which the above also benefits fr...

War Drums: "U.S. District Court Rules Iran Behind 9/11 Attacks"

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A press release from the Mellon Webster & Shelly law firm: NEW YORK , Dec. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A federal district co...

"Are We Ready for a Future of Abundance?"

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From Big Think: Transcript Tom Stewart: 10 years ago, I think, our, in many cases, mutual friend, Paul Saffo, told me, it was more th...