I have been a very very vocal critic of Greece and how I thought they were incapable of tightening their belt. Well I stand corrected! Greece from what I see I have to say, “thank-you you are showing the kind of metal you are made off. As a Eurozone citizen I am impressed and will support you to...
Read More →: Image by Getty Images via Daylife I've been reading Paul Krugman's blog at NYTimes.com daily. Paul won a Nobel Prize for economics, so obviously a smart guy. He's very thoughtful and always bases his opinions on research and current economic thought. I basically defer to this guy on all...
Read More →Via blog.xplana.com: [](http://blog.xplana.com/reports/digital-textbook-sales-in-u-s-higher-education-%E2%80%93-a-five-year-projection/) Personally, I think this is a little conservative... though kids and professors on campuses would probably know more about how motivated professors are to switch...
Read More →There is a great QA with Herb Greenberg over at TheKirkReport. A few snips from the article: > ... > > Kirk: For good or for ill, how do you see financial journalism evolving with the use of blogs and other social media? > > Herb Greenberg: The good: Leveling the playing field with an enormous...
Read More →Christian no longer crossposts here, but he's still an investor geek, blogging great stuff over at his blog at devspace.com. Here are a few articles I found interesting: Why “You Should Have Known Better” Does Not Cut It! Why The Republicans are Wrong To Block the SEC! Why We Are Not Buying Apple...
Read More →I am currently reading The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life in bits and pieces. It's very entertaining. This is not the type of book I would normally purchase or maybe even pick up at the library. I'm as interested in Warren Buffet as anybody, but this thing is pretty thick and...
Read More →I haven't touched an RSS feed/reader in over a year, but I'm getting back into Google Reader... trying to bring interesting things to your attention. Anyway, this guy emailed us a while ago with his list of the best 100 Finance RSS feeds. Obviously link bait, but the list is decent. I'll add some...
Read More →[](http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:30hudson.jpg)I wanted to comment briefly on the whole Goldman Sachs thing. The accusation, if you aren't familiar, is that Goldman, with the help of or on behalf of John Paulson, created these mortgage CDOs that were basically setup to fail. That would...
Read More →[](http://www.crunchbase.com/company/ycharts) Got an email from the friendly folks at ycharts.com. I'm sure you all have your favorite chart sites and tools. Most of these sites don't offer much more than the basics or hide some stuff behind fees. So I almost didn't look at YCharts. However, their...
Read More →via Crossing WallStreet&utm_content=Google+Reader): > For about 18 months, the share prices of Apple (AAPL) and Goldman Sachs (GS) followed each other pretty closely (though Apple has many more shares outstanding). > > [](http://www.crossingwallstreet.com/archives/2010/04/apple_and_goldm.html) > >...
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