Consumer Purchasing Issues
My DOA G5 iMac — the one that KinkosFedEx wouldn’t issue a receipt for — was the start of an unlucky streak. On...
New Column up at Real Money (01/11/05)
…My latest Street.com column, "The Importance of Flexible Convictions" is up at RM. Its loosely based on Prove Me Wrong...
Hubris & Ignorance
If you haven’t seen it yet, I advise you to have a gander at this week’s Dilbert series on trading software: I love that...
Prove Me Wrong
One of the keys to investing is maintaining intellectual flexibility. It tends to be a money losing strategy to marry any one idea or...
Chart of the Week: Stock versus Bond Yield
Despite the increase in stock prices since the summer, equities now look even cheaper against corporates, due to the strength in the...
Economists on December Jobs
. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that U.S. employers expanded their payrolls by 157,000 jobs in December, bringing total...
Bloomberg TV (1/10/05)
. Ugh. Early Monday appearance on Bloomberg TV (US) — 7:10am, which means my morning routine gets disrupted. I’m at 5...
Barrons picks up “Five for ’05”
Barron’s ran with Monday’s "Five for ’05" Having spent the weekend reading a lot of other people’s...
Fun with Google
Okay, here’s something kinda amusing: Punch the following phrases into Google, and The Big Picture is the top hit: • NASD Margin...
Likely improbables for 2005
Each year, fund manager Doug Kass steals (Morgan Stanley’s) Byron Wien’s list of unlikely events — 25 possible...