Top-Selling Albums of 2008
This list is interesting as it raises even more questions: How many of these do you own the CD of? How many do you own legally? How many...
2008 Market Review
A few other nice graphs via the NYT: > click for interactive graphic via NYT > Source: Markets Limp Into 2009 After a Bruising Year...
Timeline: The Year in Markets
via NYT > Source: Markets Limp Into 2009 After a Bruising Year VIKAS BAJAJ NYT, December 31, 2008...
How Small Business Weathers the Recession
Owners of a New York butcher shop, bicycle manufacturer and movie tourism service talk about the hard realities of keeping business alive...
The 1819 Financial Crash
Bob Hoye sends along this ditty: > The failure of the Second Bank of the United States occurred with the crash in the fall of 1819....
Princely Finance & Taxation
PRINCELY FINANCE AND TAXATION by Bob Hoye (Our Annual Christmas Number) INSTITUTIONAL ADVISORS With a degree in geophysics and a number...
Markets Bid a Not-So-Fond Farewell to 2008
It’s been a horrible year for stocks overall, the worst since 1931. Sam Stovall of Standard & Poor’s and his father,...
Vocabulary Problem: Cognitive Dissonance
Paul Krugman asks: Unusually, I’m having a vocabulary problem. There has to be some word for the kind of person who considers his mild...
Oil Investors Brace for a Tough January
Phil Flynn, vice president at Alaron Trading, explains why the conflict in Gaza is unlikely to result in significant oil supply...
Happy New Year!
2008 was certainly an interesting 12 months, one that was as revealing as it was unexpected by most people. I don’t expect merely...