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newyorker.com - 11/3/2008
The Balance Sheet: Online Only: The New Yorker
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The Nikkei Index has rallied sharply this week (although it was down today). But it’s still near its twenty-five-year low, and, in nominal terms, its value is less than a fourth of what it was in 1989, at the peak of Japan’s stock-market bubble. In the last couple of weeks, both Felix Salmon and ...
newyorker.com - 10/28/2008
The Balance Sheet: Online Only: The New Yorker
— newyorker.com — A couple of weeks ago, economist Brad DeLong suggested (at least semi-seriously, I think) that now might... be a good time to “take the Social Security Trust Fund balance out of Treasuries and move it into equities.” As he put it, “Buy low, sell high ... (more) The Balance Sheet: Online Only: The New Yorker

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GOOD Sheet - The First 100 Days
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MadeMan.com — <---As an Alabama graduate and a huge Bama fan I think Wednesday is a good time to start converting all the useless Obama signs Think the Nikkei and the Dow Jones are cheap. There is a reason they're cheap And the winner for Saudi Arabia's Most Beautiful Goat goes to........... Speaking of Obama.  You better short the hell out of coal right now and here is why.  This is going to be a scary 4 years for people with money Chris Perruna has a great article about The "M" in CANSLIM The ...

Sunday links: global stocks are on sale
Abnormal Returns — ... “What the experience of Japan teaches us, in other words, is that when companies are not profitable (in an economic sense), their stocks will not go up. “  (The Balance Sheet) ...

links for November 4th
uglychart.com: a blog about stocks — CS193P - Cocoa Programming | Announcements - iphone programming Education toread Porsche breaks the hedge funds | Squeezy money | The Economist - Now its clients are discovering that the carmaker itself has an unexpected talent for cornering markets. In a few tumultuous days it is thought to have made a cool €6 billion-12 billion porsche stocks trading The Balance Sheet: Online Only: The New Yorker - economics japan stocks Amazon.com: ...

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