Credit Default Swaps and Financial WMDs
Gretchen Morgenson’s NYT article yesterday offered a good primer about Credit Default Swaps (CDS): Few Americans have heard of...
Don’t Follow Wealthy Investors, Part 14
We have counseled readers time and again not to follow in the footsteps of various Billionaires, like Warren Buffett, Michael Dell, Eddie...
Sovereign Wealth Funds
WTF Headline of the Day: “Dow 18,500? Believe It”
I got a huge kick out of this headline last night: Dow 18,500? Believe It http://biz.yahoo.com/ms/080212/228434.html?.v=1...
Money:Tech NYC Conference
As previously mentioned, I am a panelist at the Money:Tech conference today and tomorrow in NYC. (Blogs, Analysts, and the Future of...
New Column up at The Street.com (02/01/08)
I have a new Apprenticed Investor column up at TheStreet.com, titled What Investors Need to Know About Historical Data. This was a rather...
3 Prior Market Crashes
Today’s chart porn comes to us via Bob Bronson. Here’s a comparison of 3 prior market crashes: 1930, 1962, 1987 and today....
“Classic Bear Signal”
Front page story in today’s WSJ: In many ways, this is what a classic bear market looks like: After a long period of exuberance, a...
New Column up at TheStreet.com (01/22/08)
I have a new Apprenticed Investor column up at TheStreet.com, titled "Why Bottom Guess?" The premise is that most...