macroblog.typepad.com - 1/27/2009
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During the 2002–2007 economic expansion, the personal savings rate fell to below 1 percent of disposable income. The savings rate had declined steadily from over 12 percent in the 1980s' recession. What changed the way people allocated their budgets?
U.S. household wealth grew considerably as ...
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Fleming Is Leaving Merrill Lynch to Go to Yale
dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com 1/9/2009 — Gregory J. Fleming, the president of Merrill Lynch, is resigning from the securities firm in the wake of its acquisition by Bank of America on Jan. 1 and will take a teaching position at Yale University.
Yale Law School confirmed news reports about ...
Video: Wall St. Looks for "January Effect"
marketnewslive.blogspot.com 1/6/2009 — After taking a beating in 2008, investors are hoping the year's first 5 trading days bring good news. The first week of the trading year is underway, and investors are watching for indications of the year ahead. The January effect has been accurate more than 85 percent of the time.
Short Publications - Cause and Effect
aei.org 12/16/2008 — Download file Click here to view this Outlook as an Adobe Acrobat PDF. November 2008 Although the media are full of talk that we face a "crisis of capitalism," the underlying cause of the financial meltdown is something much more mundane and ...
The Denominator Effect: A Good Problem To Have?
pehub.com 12/11/2008 — Like all institutional investors, CalPERS has been hard hit by the denominator effect. According to new documents released ahead of its Dec. 15 investment board meeting, the pension system’s actual allocation to alternative investments is now 40% ...
Cause Please Meet Effect
crossingwallstreet.com 4/3/2009 — May 16, 2007:
Pimco hires Greenspan as consultant
April 4, 2009
PIMCO Distressed Mortgage Fund Down 34%
The January Effect: Put the Calendar On Your Side
tradingmarkets.com 1/6/2009 — January is typically a good month to find lower stock prices as traders sell off in a hurry to minimize personal tax levies, but this year could prove to be exceptionally beneficial.
Portfolio Size for Choosing ETFs over Index Funds
canadiancapitalist.com 5/1/2009 — A popular question from investors convinced of the merits of passive investing is: at what portfolio size does it make sense to use Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) instead of index mutual funds? While ETFs typically have a lower MER and hence are ...