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24 Jul

History of The Beatles (via their hair)

by Barry Ritholtz
You should thank me for not using the horrific pun “Hairstory of the Beatles” > Via Flowing Data

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24 Jul

FDIC Pilot Securitization Program

by Barry Ritholtz
Did you know that the FDIC is about to start issuing securitized mortgages as an investment instrument? Neither did I. But thanks to...

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24 Jul

Climate Change: The Scientific Debate

by Barry Ritholtz
Quite interesting, even handed, and intelligent: Part 1 Climate Change — the scientific debate A basic look at how climate...

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24 Jul

FICO: Not a Great Default Predictor

by Barry Ritholtz
Joe Nocera has an interesting article in the NYT about FICO credit scores. Banks rely almost exclusively on the FICO scores when making...

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23 Jul

Succinct summation of the week’s events

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Positives 1) While toughness questioned and worst case not incorporated, EU stress test has less banks failing and smaller amount of...

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23 Jul

Friday Readings

by Barry Ritholtz
Whenever I travel, I always accumulate a list of things to read. Its good for airplane entertainment, and is the reason I will likely get...

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23 Jul

Three Minute Philosophy: Rene Descartes

by Barry Ritholtz
NSFW, but hysterical: >

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23 Jul

Home Ownership Falls to 67% or 62% (Depending on Who You Ask)

by Barry Ritholtz
The ongoing deleveraging of the American Consumer continues apace. The most recent evidence of this is the 2.0% decrease in homeownership...

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23 Jul

European banks/Sovereign default

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The results of the stress test were of course better than thought relative to the amount of banks ‘failing’ and the amount of...

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23 Jul

Total Market Capitalization as % of GDP

by Barry Ritholtz
US Stock market capitalization (NYSE + Nasdaq) is now larger than US GDP. > click for bigger chart Chart courtesy of The Chart Store

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