Tuesday Reads
A few interesting items that caught my eye today: • BIS Says Banks Need More Capital to Withstand Shocks (Bloomberg) • You’re...
The Superbowl Team of Online Finance
Glad to see I made the “New Rules of Investing” squad: Superbowl team: online finance’s best: click for full blog list >
Bulls & Bears Make Money; Corporations Get Free Speech?
Good Morning: I will briefly dispense with yesterday’s muted market activity before tackling a recent Supreme Court decision that...
Blogonomics: Morningstar Acquires Footnoted
> Congrats to my friend Michelle Leder, who just sold her site Footnoted.org to Morningstar. I don’t have the details on the...
Cashin’s Comments from NYSE
Art Cashin, head of floor operations at UBS, has the buzz from the NYSE. Airtime: Tues. Feb. 9 2010 | 8:50 AM ET
5 Most Expensive Pieces of Art
Alberto Giacometti: L’Homme qui marche I $104.3 million (sculpture) Pablo Picasso’s Parisian boy smoking a pipe (painting)...
Food Stamps – The Great Recession’s Soup Lines
US food stamps set ever-higher record-32.8 million A record 38.2 million Americans were enrolled in the food stamp program at latest...
Greece & an Ode to Simonides
David R. Kotok co-founded Cumberland Advisors in 1973 and has been its Chief Investment Officer since inception. He holds a B.S. in...
We don’t want your help because maybe we don’t need it
While yesterday’s US stock market close was poor, Asia and Europe didn’t follow today as debt in Greece, Spain, Portugal,...
Why No Canadian Housing Bubble?
Yesterday’s WSJ had an article about Canada’s Housing market. (Housing Rebound in Canada Spurs Talk of a New Bubble). The...