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222 Years Of Long-Term Interest Rates
I love these giant long term charts. This one covers more than two centuries. It looks at long term US interest rates — the 30 year...
Wall Street Is the New OPEC
Source: Wall Street Is An Illegal Cartel That Needs To Be Busted Up: Yahoo Daily Ticker
10 Thursday AM Reads
Some reads for your second cup of Joe: • S&P 500 Rallying Most Since 1987 as Fed Helps Offset Europe (Bloomberg) • U.S. losing...
Economic data
Dec Housing Starts totaled 657k annualized vs 685k in Nov and was 23k less than expected but the breakdown was mixed. Single family...
Initial Unemployment Claims Confirm Unfinished Market Rally
In addition to other bullish coincident economic data reported yesterday, initial unemployment claims, which are a leading economic...
The Kangaroo Court of Wall Street
William Cohan has been on a tear lately. Lehman, Goldman, MF Global — he has been shooting at all of the big targets. Last week, he...
Defending Our Freedom to Share
What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto — a call...
WSJ Earnings Tracker
Nice graphic from the WSJ showing earnings hits and misses: > click for interactive graphic...