2010 Felix Salmon: Get Out Of The Stock Market Right Now
This video, based on this May 10, 2010 column, Why volatility means you should sell stocks, is now 5 years old. Rather than me comment on...
Flash Crash a Perfect Storm for Markets
Great couple of graphics from the WSJ this AM. This is the simple version, a short explanatory overlaid on a graph: Perfect Storm...
Create Your Own Stock Market Narrative!
What makes this so good is how dead on accurate this collection of cliches have become: Click to create your own personal...
The Great Unbundling
Nobody wants to watch the Discovery Channel. 2.9 million people viewed “Naked and Afraid.” But a hundred million paid for it....
CEO Compensation is Broken
Executive Pay Gluttony Maybe big institutional investors could make a difference. Bloomberg, April 30, 2015 ...
Beware of Indicators That Predict Nothing
A Market Indicator That Predicts Nothing Its predictive value is minimal. Bloomberg, April 29, 2015 Every now and...
A Pizza Place Closes in Seattle . . .
Barry here: I know Invictus personally for more than a decade. I also know he works at a shop that does not allow its staff to publish...
Pre-Crisis Financial Company CEO Compensation
Since CEO compensation is back in the news, I thought we might want to revisit this collection of excess via Bailout Nation: Pre-Crisis...
Margin Debt Hits an All-Time High . . . So What?
A Market Indicator That Predicts Nothing Its predictive value is minimal. Bloomberg, April 29, 2015 Every now...
Time to Raise America’s Gas Tax
America, Land of the Pothole U.S. highways are a wreck for no good reason. Bloomberg, April 27, 2015 Get in your car...