Economics and Markets
Investing Notes - The Predictive Power of the Put-Call Ratio for Individual Stocks
- CXO advisory examines the predictive power of the put call ratio for individual stocks and why it does not work well for indexes.
- Free Exchange looks at Garret Jones and his work on intelligence and its role in economic growth.
The Twisted Economics Of Harry Potter
- BusinessWeek looks at the economics of Harry Potter and how it effects different companies and industries.
ABC News: Cheese Squeeze: Pizzas Getting Pricey
- Cheese and Pizza inflation! The cheapest lunch in New York not bought from a cart now will get more expensive.
The Big Picture | Contain THIS!
- Barry Ritholtz on Bear Stearns, the CDO mess, and how the sub-prime crisis is far from "contained".
Homes Sell. Homes Don’t Sell. Builders Still Build. - New York Times
- Floyd Norris at the New York Times looks at the drop in home sales coupled with building by home builders portends a further decline to come.
FT Alphaville » Blog Archive » When credit becomes a debit…
- Alphaville looks at credit as a revenue source for the investment banks and the situation where it becomes a debit on their books.
Economics focus | Misleading misalignments | Economist.com
- The Economist looks at why looking at a currency as being "fundamentally" misvalued is a difficult and dangerous task.
- Greg Weldon on Minyanville on how the Street was wrong on sub-prime - which begs the question what else are they wrong about?
Calculated Risk: A Tale of Two Hedge Funds
- Calculated Risk digs deeper into the hedge fund collapse at Bear Stearns. Very interesting post.
All About Alpha on Pension Funds
- All About Alpha looks at the power and instability of pension funds as compared to hedge funds.
- Michael Mandel of Business Week explores whether GDP matters any more and if not, what does?
- NakedShorts posts about how the FSA is slashing jobs of regulators because "crime is down".
- Steven Levitt on the Freakonomics blog examines some of the deeper mysteries in life from an economic perspective through excerpts from a new book by Robert Frank.
Buttonwood | Research in commotion | Economist.com
- The Economist looks at sell-side analysts and how they are a dying breed.
Should Blackstone Investors Read Keynes? « unsettling economics
- Michael Perleman has a great post from Keynes that does not relate only to Blackstone but everything.
- Dealbook looks at the Tellabs ruling and how it makes it harder for investors to carry out a securities fraud case.
Science & Technology
What do You Know Now About Blogging that You Wish You Knew When You Started?
iPhone Frenzy Will Tempt Hackers To Break Apple's Security - Yahoo! News
- As Apple moves more and more into the spotlight it may suffer the same security concerns as its good friend Microsoft.
Rapping about physics?Sciam Observations: A blog from the editors of Scientific American
- He's phySick wit it. This is pretty funny. Here's a physics rhyme written by me, "I'm the nucleus of physics like protons and neutrons and crush other phD's like they were just croutons. I'm like a valence electron very unstable, all the physics you've slept on make you very unable." Sorry I'm done.
- To the owner of this site: Nobody wants to hear your weird dreams. I don't want to hear about how "you were talking to your sister and all of a sudden her face changed into her art teacher." I don't know what it means and don't care.
Hacker penetrates Pentagon email system - tech - 22 June 2007 - New Scientist Tech
- It's my view that the government doesn't want things to be hacker proof, so that if anything bad happens they can blame it on the computer - kind of like in high school when my "computer crashed" and I couldn't do that paper. When asked to comment Bush said, "Isn't that what the thing with the flying toasters is supposed to protect against?"
Telepathy and consumer electronics
- Hitachi is developing a device that allows you to control consumer electronic devices with your mind. Wait? The iPhone doesn't do that?
- Apple TV is now on YouTube. Like I believe was planned, hidden deep in the iPhone hype is a major move that Apple is making towards it goal: your living room.
Internet Video: A Stream Becomes a Virtual Deluge - New York Times
- How streaming media is going full force ahead
Report: Video game spending to surpass music spending this year
- Not surprising but very impactful. Music is almost free video games cost 50 bucks. The amount of people I know who buy many video games each month and no CD's makes the people I know who buy lots of music and no games have to buy much more music to keep up.
beSpacific: The Expanding Digital Universe: A Forecast of Worldwide Information Growth Through 2010
- IDC forecasts global information growth through 2010.
News & Society
Average man sleeps with 7 women - Sexual Health - MSNBC.com
- New survey investigates promiscuity. 29 percent of men, 9 percent of women say they have had 15 partners or more. My bet is its more like 20/20.
WP: CIA to air decades of dirty laundry - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com
- CIA to declassify a bunch of new material. I can't wait. I love this stuff.
Business.com Could Hit Jackpot on Auction Block - WSJ.com
- The domain name is up for sale again and it boggles my mind how much its up for sale for. - post by zerobeta
ABC News: N.J. Dog Crowned World's Ugliest
- This was actually on ABC News' "Top Stories".
Shhhh: New NYC noise code to take effect - Yahoo! News
- First it was Mr. Tastee now dogs? How exactly is fining someone for the noise of their dog going to hold up in court. If you don't like the noise don't live here.
Population & Demographics
demography.matters.blog: Migration and Economic Growth in the US
- Edward Hugh looks at the relationship between migration and level of economic growth. Investigating the idea that young fast-growing economies attract immigrants while slower ones do not.
Changing Demography and Your future - Journal - The Great Talent Shortage
- Kenneth Gronback looks at the great talent shortage related to the Baby Boom.
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