I’m Officially An International Man of Mystery!
I recently had a blast talking with Rob Collie and Tom LaRock on their Raw Data podcast, covering some of my eclectic obsessions from international arbitrage and public deficits to… Read more »
Category: finance & money
We Made It to Chile – A Small Tale of Three Continents
As I hinted this (northern hemisphere) summer, we decided a few months ago to relocate to Chile, the most stable, secure and less corrupt country in Latin America (see for… Read more »
Quotetracker Keeps Improving
It’s been a couple of years since I last played with Quotetracker ("a Windows program that provides streaming real-time quotes, Live intraday charts with Technical Indicators, Level II quotes, Time… Read more »
What Does It All Mean?
Handy glossary of key financing terms at VentureBlog.
Protecting the Value of your Home
eFinance Insider: "Tom Skinner, and his Washington, D.C. based firm, Real Liquidity LLC, is working to address the risk of price declines in residential real estate by developing innovative financial… Read more »
The Future of Wall Street Research
Bill Martin interviews Tom Carter, CFO & VP Operations at StarMine, an analyst rating system which seems to be more often right than wrong.
Tech Firms Fight Shift In Rules On Options
WaPo: "Technology executives are mobilizing to block congressional efforts — a reaction to the Enron Corp. scandal — to change how companies account for stock options, a coin of the… Read more »
Overture lost 41% yesterday
Big plunge just on the Earthlink deal. Shows again how much the stock market is uninformed. The fact that Google was about to compete with Overture was known since late… Read more »
Amazon.com: The Euro to the Rescue
Fortune: "The fact is, the weak euro–which lowered Amazon’s interest payments on its debt by a full $16 million–accounted for a good bit of the company’s surprise performance, rather than… Read more »
It’s Not What They Know, but Whom
NYT: "Gerson is one of several boutique research firms that have tried to take advantage of some commonly perceived weaknesses in Wall Street research: a lack of depth, a lack… Read more »