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10 Monday PM Reads

May 20, 2013 3:30 pm / Leave a Comment /

My afternoon train reading:

• Boom or Bubble? (The New Yorker) but see Is This the Best Time for Investors? Don’t Bet On It. (WSJ)
• How Benjamin Graham Revolutionized Shareholder Activism (Echoes)
• Dear NYSE: Canceling Trades Destroys The Integrity of The Market (Kid Dynamite’s World)
• Telling the Truth on Fees, Warts and All (NYT) see also Making your financial adviser measure up (MarketWatch)
• Gross to Buffett Omens Disregarded as Sales Soar (Bloomberg)
• What’s Holding Back Hiring? (Real Time Economics)
• Wall Street Deregulation Advances Despite Warnings Vote Could ‘Haunt’ Congress (HuffPo)
• How much? Samsung swipes 95% of Android profits (Digital Trends)
• Tesla’s fight with America’s car dealers (CNN Money)
• 12 reasons X-Prize billionaires are cheapskates (MarketWatch)

What are you reading?

Source: The Big Picture

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10 Monday AM Reads

May 20, 2013 9:00 am / Leave a Comment /

My morning reads:

• Dynamic Duo: Why Leon Cooperman and Steve Einhorn think this bull market still has legs (Barron’s) but see How Likely is A Continued Market Rise? (Avondale Asset Management)
• Why Precious Metals are Taking a Pasting (Moneybeat)
• Notes From the London Value Investor Conference 2013: Marks, Price, Montier & More (Market Folly)
• Recession Watch: ECRI’s Weekly Leading Indicator Declines Advisor Perspectives (Advisor Perspectives)
• U.S. Bonds Cheapest Since ’90 Versus Bunds Counter Buffett (Bloomberg) see also Money isn’t “easy”– A rant (The Money Illusion)
• A Small Part of the Brain, and Its Profound Effects (NYT)
• Everything Apple Needs to Introduce at WWDC to Appease the Internet (carpeaqua)
• The Tragic Beauty of Google+ (Time)
• Quinn Sullivan, 14-Year-Old Blues Prodigy, Impresses the Masters (Rolling Stone)
• What I Learned From Watching Every Single Episode of The Office (Esquire)

What are you reading?

Source: The Big Picture

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10 Wednesday PM Reads

May 15, 2013 3:30 pm / Leave a Comment /

My afternoon train reads:

• Of course “hedge funds” lose money (Noah Opinion) see also A Professional Preps for the End of QE (Forbes)
• The Buffett Formula — How To Get Smarter (Farnam Street)
• The super soaraway Nikkei (FT Alphaville)
• Retirement: How They Do It Elsewhere (NYT)
• Even economists need lessons in quantitative easing, Bernanke style (Quartz) but see Why Hedge Funds’ Criticism of the Fed May Be Right (DealBook)
• Exhuming Lehman (and looking for Signs in the Entrails) (It’s Not That Simple)
• Holder Says Leak Required “Very Aggressive Action”… Bank Crimes, Not So Much (HuffPo)
• Wall Street’s gambler brain lacks moral conscience (MarketWatch)
• 10 Hotel Secrets from Behind the Front Desk (mental floss)
• The Water On the Moon Probably Came From Earth (Smithsonian)

What are you reading?

Source: The Big Picture

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10 Wednesday AM Reads

May 15, 2013 9:00 am / Leave a Comment /

My morning reads:

• This Bull Is Like the Tech Bubble, but Different (Businessweek)
• 63 Brand-New Quotes From Warren Buffett (Motley Fool)
• What Does Japan Mean For The Rest of the World? (Tim Duy’s Fed Watch) see also Mrs Watanabe all over the map but values not yet back to 2007 (Investing Japan’s Institutional Capital)
• Signposts: A Daily (Baker’s) Dozen for Investors (Above the Market)
• For Insurers, No Doubts on Climate Change (NYT)
• CBO sees brighter economy with budget deficit to plunge to $642 billion this year (Washington Post) see also U.S. Budget Deficit Shrinks Far Faster Than Expected (NYT)
• The real IRS scandal: That 501(c)4 groups are tax exempt at all  (Los Angeles Times)
• How To Have A Longer Marriage Than Kim Kardashian. (Scientific American)
• Is Apple’s iPhone really ‘dead in the water’? (Fortune)
• Facebook and ruined reputations (MarketWatch)

Source: The Big Picture

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10 Tuesday AM Reads

May 14, 2013 8:45 am / Leave a Comment /

My morning reads:

• Is stocks’ recent run start of second leg of bull? (USAToday)
• Of course “hedge funds” lose money (Noahpinion)
• Using Geography to Predict Stock Market Returns (MoneyBeat)
• What Does Japan Mean For The Rest of the World? (Tim Duy’s Fed Watch) see also A new type of growth is emerging (FT Alphaville)
• The Facebook Flop (Stratechery)
• Why have so few bankers gone to jail? (Economist) see also Credit-rating agencies poised to avoid overhaul (Washington Post)
• Navy Catches the Drone Bug (WSJ)
• Here’s The Real Reason People Bash Bernanke And Keynes When They’re On Stage At Conferences (Business Insider) see also In Praise of Econowonkery (NYT)
• The Tesla Model S Is The Best Car We’ve Ever Seen (CONSUMER REPORTS)
• Meet Marc Maron: the Comedic Podcast Giant on His New IFC Show & More (Daily Beast)

What are you reading?

Source: The Big Picture

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10 Monday PM Reads

May 13, 2013 3:30 pm / Leave a Comment /

My afternoon train (yes LIRR) reading:

• Rosenberg: Why cash is your least safe bet (Financial Post)
• How to Worry Less About Money (Brain Pickings) see also Advice for Dylan the Daytrader (The Reformed Broker)
• Cautious 3-fer:
…..-Near-Record NYSE Margin Debt Leads to Caution  (Bloomberg)
…..-Investors borrow cash from portfolios at record pace (USAToday)
…..-Searching for Signs of a Market Top (Barron’s)
Contrarians will point out that you don’t usually see this much caution at tops.
• How Cooper Union’s Endowment Failed in Its Mission (NYT)
• Moby Ben, or, the Washington Super-Whale: Hedge Fundies, the Federal Reserve, and Bernanke-Hatred (Brad DeLong)
• In the Long Run, Niall Ferguson, Keynes Was Right (Bloomberg) see also Keynes was, incredibly, right about the future. He was wrong about how we’d be spending it. (Wonkblog)
• LinkedIn annoys me (Benedict Evans)
• Carbon dioxide passes symbolic mark (BBC) see also 50 years on: The Keeling Curve legacy (BBC)
• 50 Best Websites 2013 (Time)
• Doctor Who? Doctor Jew (Tablet)

What are you reading?

Source: The Big Picture

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10 Monday AM Reads

May 13, 2013 8:45 am / Leave a Comment /

My morning reads:

• This is the best thing you will read today: The End is Where We Start From (The Reformed Broker)
• Rally Matches 1990s Gains With Valuations 28% Lower (Bloomberg) see also Literally Every Strategist On Wall Street Has Been Wrong About The Stock Market (Business Insider)
• After a decade of decline, it’s time for the dollar to have its day (Telegraph)
• How the Rich Play the Market (WSJ)
• U.S. Posts Biggest Monthly Surplus in 5 Years (Real Time Economics)
• Japan: The Kuroda recovery will be about domestic demand and not about exports (The Market Monetarist)
• The Facebook Home disaster (Salon)
• Bloomberg’s culture is all about omniscience, down to the last keystroke (Quartz)
• Pilotless Planes, Pacific Tensions (NYT) see also U.S. automatic cuts send Pentagon contract awards down 52 percent (Washington Post)
• Twitter Vines Get Shared 4x More Than Online Video Researcher says nascent tool packs branding punch (AdWeek)

What are you reading?

Source: The Big Picture

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10 Friday AM Reads

May 10, 2013 9:00 am / Leave a Comment /

My morning reads:

• Market bears still waiting for pullback (CNNMoney) but see It’s not just stocks; everything is overvalued (MarketWatch)
• Welcome to Saudi America (FT Alphaville)
• Fees of Fees don’t sound like a great deal for the investors:  2 & 20% + 1.5% yearly fee + (one time) 3% placement charge (NYT) see also The Things You See at a Las Vegas Hedge Fund Confab (NY Mag)
• Fidelity vs. Vanguard: Which is best? (MarketWatch)
• Foreclosure Filings in US Hit Six-Year Low (World Property Channel) see also Challenge to Dogma on Owning a Home (NYT)
• Paulson Bid to Resurrect Reputation Hurt by Gold Gone Bad (Bloomberg)
• Our Swiftly Melting Deficit, Or How the U.S. is Killing It (Daily Beast) see also Why Republicans Really Love Budget Deficits (The Fiscal Times)
• More money, more self-reported satisfaction, but not more happiness… (FT Alphaville)
• Turn Bad Stress Into Good (WSJ)
• Sexiest Women and Hottest Celebrities (Maxim)

What are you reading?

Source: The Big Picture

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10 Thursday AM Reads

May 9, 2013 9:00 am / Leave a Comment /

My morning reads:

• Tips From Wall Street Hedge Fund Gurus Fail to Reward Faithful (FT.com)
• Jobless Claims in U.S. Unexpectedly Fall to Five-Year Low  (Bloomberg)
• Earnings Not Yet a Viral Sensation (WSJ)
• Stock Markets Rise, but Half of Americans Don’t Benefit (Economix) but see Everyone Who Started Watching ‘Mad Money’ In 2005 Now Billionaires (The Onion)
• Economists See Deficit Emphasis as Impeding Recovery (NYT)
• Are ‘Hot Hands’ in Sports a Real Thing? (NYT)
• What is wrong (and right) in economics? (Dani Rodriks Weblog) see also Rethinking macroeconomic policy (VOX)
• China’s Next Leap Forward: From Comrades to Consumers (Diplomat)
• Elizabeth Warren: Give students the same deal as big banks (Politico)
• 7 Dodgy Food Practices Banned in Europe But Just Fine Here (MotherJones)

What are you reading?

Source: The Big Picture

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10 Mid-Week PM Reads

May 8, 2013 3:30 pm / Leave a Comment /

My afternoon plane reading:

• What If The Markets are Undervalued…? (Howard Lindzon)
• Should the United States Have 2.2 Million More Jobs? (Brookings) see also Austerity Has Cost The U.S. Economy 2.2 Million Jobs: Study (HuffPo)
• Fast Times In The Corner Office: Impatient investors. Volatile markets. Why the speed of business is dooming CEOs. (Daily Beast)
• CNBC Viewership Plunges To Eight Year Lows (Zero Hedge) see also Saving CNBC in 7 Simple Steps (Schaeffers Research)
• The Food-Truck Business Stinks (NYT)
• Stocks With Room to Expand Their Dividends (Barron’s) see also Are These The Breakout Dividend Stars Of 2014? (Street Authority)
• Who won the $1.7 bln settlement between BofA and MBIA? (Thomson Reuters)
• LinkedIn’s Real Value: Knowing All About People in All the Right Places (WSJ)
• Urban Compass: can a startup finally fix the nightmare of renting an apartment in NYC? (The Verge)
• Newly Declassified Memo Shows CIA Shaped Zero Dark Thirty’s Narrative (Gawker)

What are you reading?

Source: The Big Picture

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