Archive for July 23rd, 2008

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Louise Yamada: Bearing Up

This post features an interview by Kate Welling with Louise Yamada, top-ranked “Institutional Investor” technical analyst. Louise’s track record is just too good to be ignored, especially when she concludes the interview by saying: “I’d rather be out of the market wishing I were in, than in the market wishing I were out.”

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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

It’s the stupid economy

Jon Stewart (The Daily Show) rightfully gets confused with the various utterances about the economic outlook, and in so doing brings laughter to an otherwise serious matter.

Source: Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, July 16, 2008.
 
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Strength, weakness, recession, depression

By Cees Bruggemans
You may have heard the expression. When your neighbour looses his job, it is a recession. When you loose yours, it is a depression.
Especially people in protected employment often show little understanding as to what it is to be unprotected.
There are a fair number of protected, as many as half the formal […]

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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Moral hazard

Hat tip: Barry Ritholtz’s The Big Picture, July 17, 2008.
 
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