thebigmoney.com - 5/3/2009
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Years ago, when I wrote a popular financial makeover feature for a major national newspaper, one of our subjects asked if he should be plowing his more than $50,000 in savings into gold. It was 1997 and gold was trading at a little more than $300 an ounce. The financial planner assisting with the piece laughed dismissively, and the question never made it into the final write-up. Well, my bad. As I write, gold is hovering around $900 an ounce.
For more than two decades, as income inequality ...
finance.yahoo.com - 4/30/2009
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Sunday links: opinions and hot hands
Abnormal Returns —
... Personal finance “gurus” have failed their clientele. (The Big Money) ...
Links 5/4/09
naked capitalism —
... Ancient tsunami 'hit New York' BBC. An updated version coming to a movie theater near you. I have separately read that a hurricane that hit at just the right angle would send a storm surge that would flood Manhattan to 14th Street. Internet 'draining world power' Guardian Berkshire Investment Officer Candidates Didn't Beat S&P; 500, Buffett Says Bloomberg. Does that mean NC readers should apply for the job The End Of Personal Finance Helaine Olen The Big Money Falling Wage Syndrome Paul Krugman ...
Monday morning links
The Mess That Greenspan Made —
... Victims: Madoff Trustee Not Looking Out for Us - New York Post • Fat public sector sickens California - Grand Forks Herald • How Lehman Brothers Got Its Real Estate Fix - NY Times • The prophets of doom - Salon MARKETS/INVESTING • Gold firms on weak U.S. dollar, Chinese buying - Reuters • Crude Oil Declines After Reaching Five-Week High - Bloomberg • Stock market rally under stress - CNN/Money • The End of Personal Finance - The Big Money • Investment Outlook: 2+2=4 - Gross, Pimco • ...
The End of Personal Finance
24/7 Wall St. —
... more than two decades, as income inequality increased and job security decreased, Americans lapped up personal finance columns, books, and television shows. We thrilled to stock tips and swooned at sensible strategies for using dollar-cost averaging to invest in no-load index funds. Buy and hold, my friends! The annualized gain for the S&P 500 stock index over time is more than 10 percent! You, too, can turn into the millionaire next door. Carpe diem, folks! Seize the financial day! Read more….
Afternoon Reading
The Big Picture —
... Year-to-Date Decline (Bloomberg)
• What Banks Are Still Missing: Trust (Time)
• Sharpest U.S. Recession Since 1938: -1.9 Percent of GDP (PPI)
• Stress Tests Echo ’30s Rescue, So Says Ahamed of ‘Lords of Finance’ (Bloomberg)
• Tests of Banks May Bring Hope More Than Fear (NYT)
• Lending Standards in Mortgage Markets May 2009 (St. Louis Fed)
• Best and Worst Cities for Jobs (Forbes)
• The End of Personal Finance: Decades of advice turn out to be so much garbage ...
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