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  Summary of the financial apocalypse

  09.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The NYT Freakonomics blog has a good summary of just what the hell is happening right now in financial markets.

• finance, news

  Recent photos from North Korea

  09.17.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  North Korea, or a post-financial apocalypse United States? Some amazing recent photos from North Korea at Boston.com (from @pkedrosky).

• finance

  NNT on current financial crisis

  09.17.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Largely a repeat of his books but interesting in context of the last few days/weeks/months. The Fourth Quadrant: A Map of the limits of Statistics.

• finance, personal

  Ballard real estate

  09.17.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I learned today from my new favorite blog myballard.com that our zip code is the eight fastest selling in the country, with an average time on the market of 86 days. Looking at the list Ballard has done pretty well in comparison to many higher up on the list, like Plano, Tex. (#4) where prices [...]

• business, finance

  Investment banking in a nutshell

  03.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Help me understand investment banking if you can… as I see it, the business follows the “business cycle” with just two phases: 1) make up a bubble and earn record bonuses; then 2) d’oh! find out that all that money never really existed in the first place, but get bailed out by the government. Convenient.

• business, finance

  The Bernanke Put

  01.23.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Bubblegeneration: The Bernanke Put and the Macropocalypse: “By preventing the market from finding a bottom, the Fed just transferred risk from hedge funds, banks, and other people holding illiquid assets, to you - people holding liquid assets.”
  Totally agree… while it decreases pain in the short term the “Bernanke Put” ensures that the wacked out compensation [...]

• finance, personal

  Suze Orman is my hero

  11.23.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Suze Orman is totally my hero. Most of the “financial advisers” that you see on tv are complete frauds and provide absolutely useless advice. Suze (pronounced Susie, not Soooze, as B recently taught me) though, is honest and actually gives good advice. And she likes Seattle real estate right now.

• business, finance, personal

  Mad Money by Jim Cramer

  09.30.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Breean checked out Mad Money by Jim Cramer from the library for me the other day. I was pretty skeptical cause he’s such a nutcase but the book is actually pretty good. I recommend it for some pretty simple but reasonable investing advice.

• business, finance, personal

  Malcolm Gladwell and the Johnson School on Enron

  01.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Interesting Malcolm Gladwell piece in the New Yorker about “Enron, intelligence, and the perils of too much information.” In short, the world has changed and many fields have moved from puzzles (not enough information) to mysteries (too much information).
  Let’s just quote from the end:

  In the spring of 1998, Macey notes, a group of six students [...]

• finance, news

  The financial troubles of a billionaire

  01.31.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  You gotta love the emails Larry Ellison’s (fifth richest person in the country) accountant sends him [from paul k]:

  At the bottom of a document that detailed Ellison’s 2000 debt load, Simon had scrawled a rough accounting of Ellison’s lavish spending, according to deposition testimony:

  Life Style — annual $20m
  Interest Accrual — annual $75m
  Villa [...]

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