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Category Archives: Markets
Shades of Green
TripAdvisor has gone public: Eleven years after it began life above Kosta’s Pizza in Needham, and seven years after it was acquired by Barry Diller’s InterActive Corp. for about $200 million, TripAdvisor is finally gaining a NASDAQ listing of its … Continue reading
S&P Goofs Up Again
Via Kid Dynamite: Just in case you missed the most ridiculous story of the day – the BBC has the details: “Standard & Poor’s accidentally released a message to some of its subscribers on Thursday saying that it had downgraded French … Continue reading
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My Favorite Economic Dashboard
An update of one of the simplest and most useful economic dashboards I’ve seen. You need to click through, but take a quick look: I would still love to see a dynamic version of this, updated daily. It’s not quite … Continue reading
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MIT C-Bonds!
MIT Issues Rare 100-Year Bond: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology came to market Wednesday with a $750 million taxable bond offering maturing in 100 years, according to people familiar with the deal. Bonds of that length are extremely rare, although … Continue reading
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Back of the Envelope Thoughts on Silver
I need to start this post with a disclaimer. I’m far from an expert on the precious metals markets. But I am long silver, and have been for over three years. I’ve been along for the roller coaster ride through … Continue reading
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Additional Thoughts on US Debt and Treasury Shorting
To add to my prior posts on the S&P “Downgrade” and treasury shorting, here are a few additional thoughts and links: Via Ezra Klein, more on why the end of quantitative easing is bad for treasury prices: The dominant view … Continue reading
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Well? Why Are You Short Treasuries?
In response to my last post on the S&P “downgrade,” Matt asks, “Well? Why are you short treasuries?” Fair question. A couple very simple reasons (with slightly detailed explanations). First off, this is not investment advice! Now that I really think it … Continue reading
A Summary of Summaries on the S&P “Downgrade”
James Fallows summarizes two thoughts that pretty much summarize my thoughts on the topic: I agree with Clive Crook’s puzzlement about the S&P downgrade “bombshell” today: “S&P adduces no new information that I can see. Competent ratings of opaque instruments such as, oh, mortgage-backed … Continue reading
The Global Stock Market
For a while now I’ve been curious to see a time-series chart of global stock market capitalization by region. I’ve looked, and have been unable to find one. So I downloaded some data from the World Federation of Exchanges, and … Continue reading
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Get Your Trade On
The physical kind. Kid Dynamite has an interesting post on buying nickels. There’s no good way to quote it, so here’s the entire post: Ok kids – I’m going to let you in on another blockbuster trade. This one is … Continue reading


