Archive for April 10th, 2008

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Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Jacks’s House

Source: Tom Toles, The Washington Post, April 4, 2008.
 
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Reuters SA Survey of Economists

The March edition of the Reuters South African Survey of Economists has just been published.
SA economic confidence, as measured by the Reuters monthly Econometer, recovered in March from its lowest levels, since June 2004. (The Econometer is a measure of economic sentiment drawn from a monthly poll of forecasts by leading economists in South […]

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Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Facing up to the “R” word

Source: Tom Toles, The Washington Post, April 6, 2008.
 
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008

New blog features & a personal appeal

A few interesting new features have been added to the Investment Postcards blog site over the past few weeks. This short post briefly describes these, and also asks readers for a favor …

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Thursday, April 10th, 2008

The Bear Necessities

Here is a specially rewritten version of The Bare Necessities, originally from Disney’s The Jungle Book, which follows the tribulations recently experienced by a number of investment banks.
Where are the Bear necessities?
No longer trading equities,
Got buried in a landslide of subprime.
I mean the Bear necessities -
Those benchmark Gilts and Treasuries
Forgotten in a sea of banking […]

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