Political Futures Markets on CNBC
How funny is this? Cashing in on the Race: The Intrade political futures market shows shares of Barack Obama has gone up nearly...
Market Selloff Due to Presidential Polls ?
If you ever wanted to see proof of the political bias of some pundits, today is the day. Its the Monday after many weekend polls have...
Existing-home sales drop 13.2% as prices fall 7.1%
Existing-home sales (Seasonally adjusted) rose 3.1% to an annual rate of 5.00 million units in July, from a downwardly revised level of...
Money Markets Show Credit Crunch is Worsening
This morning’s must read journalism is a Bloomberg piece on credit availability as projected/forecast by money markets and interest...
Saving the Financials
Today’s guest post comes to us via Macro Man — a portfolio manager at a London-based hedge fund, he trades global currencies,...
Foreign Exposure to U.S. Asset-Backed Securities
> If this is the sort of stuff that floats your boat, then you need to read this full paper; the rest of you should just go about your...
How to stop the next bubble
Been meaning to get to this for some time now — Intro: "The financial crisis has shown that markets are bubble-prone and that...
Questions For Your Financial Advisor
A good list for those of you who delegate your investing to an outside adviser. Consider asking these questions of your advisor during...