Pragmatic Relationship with Data
Something I have been wanting to address for some time now is the tendency amongst many market observers to “anthropomorphize”...
CPI Null Set (via The Economist)
This is a classic example of working the refs: If enough long-only fund managers/sell side pundits spew the same misleading nonsense long...
Read it here first: The Cost of Sarbanes-Oxley
It is a rather annoying tendency of politicians — and their empty-headed acolytes — to use and abuse of data and charts. One...
The Media Goes Blog Crazy!
We have previously discussed the MSM’s tentative probes into blogging. We first looked at the WSJ’s blogging moves, and then...
Copyright Abuse by Media Bullies
This really gets me angry: Last week, I send out a few test notices about RR&A to a handful of people in my address book — less...
The Return of Abelson
"AS WE WERE SAYING BEFORE WE WERE SO rudely interrupted by a man dressed in a white smock and wielding a scalpel (thank heavens he...
Hmmm, 36,000. Delicious!
> "John Snow will have a replacement, and he may very well come from the corporate world. But if it’s an A-list Wall Street...
The Art of Investing: Forbes
A few weeks ago (May 16, 2006), I did an interview with Bob Lenzner, National Editor of Forbes. (He calls me one of the "Grizzliest...
NYTime’s Comment
>I finally lost my NYT cherry today, with a quote in an article about Ben Bernanke (and look who I’m quoted with):...
Uh-Oh: The Economist Cover
Whew! that was a close one! The cover of this week’s Economist refers not to the US Equity markets, but instead to the Housing /...