“Dear Investor” — Quant Letters to Clients
These are floating around anyway, so we might as well offer them all up in one place: (Thanks, Rob!) Below you will find the various...
E*Trade/TD Ameritrade?
ETD Trade: This morning’s WSJ reports: The online brokerage industry, which underwent a wave of consolidation after the bursting of...
Fed Easings and Market Tops
From Jack McHugh comes this observation about the nature of market tops and Fed easings: "There have now been 3 hair-raising...
Catching up with the Fed’s Thinking
The WSJ has what appears to be an "All Fed, All the Time" edition out this morning. A combination of articles does a very good...
Boo-yah! Barron’s is Shorting Cramer
There have been rumors circulating that a major media source was going to pull a hatchet job on JC. Well, it turns out to be only partly...
The Quants Explain Disaster
Floyd Norris posted a fabulous take down of the report from Goldman Sachs entitled “The Quant Liquidity Crunch." The...
Global Correction
For yesterday’s info-porn, we looked at the YTD and QTD global returns. Today, we have this informative interactive map from the...
Foreclosure Radar
Nice mashup between Google Maps and a Foreclosure directory: Foreclosure Radar Here’s what tony La Jolla (a favorite...
You Know Things Are Bad When The WSJ Trots Out Malpass and...
Sometimes, I wonder if I am just tilting at windmills — i.e., my criticism of those two recent WSJ Op-Eds. So I am heartened when I...