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[edit] Thinking Ahead at Ford and Charlie Brown's Football

25 July 2008, by guest2008 This post is a guest contribution by John S. Boyd, writer of the BlindReason blog. This piece about Ford's just announced $8.7 billion loss was interesting via the FT here with an excerpt below:. Ford has unveiled an ambitious facelift ...

[edit] 7 Things Every Home Buyer Needs to Know - U.S. News & World Report

25 July 2008, by

[edit] Mortgage Market Week in Review

25 July 2008, by guest2008 Well, here we are on Friday again and I'm trying to figure out how to summarize all that's been happening in the mortgage and financial worlds. I could write a book about it, but I won't (at least not today....) So, here goes: ...

[edit] We really are driving less! And so are the Amish! - WalletPop

25 July 2008, by

[edit] Stock Market Returns - The Wonder of Compounding

25 July 2008, by guest2008 Albert Einstein described compound growth as the eighth wonder of the world. Although he may have passed away in 1955 - coincidentally the year when yours truly saw daylight for the first time - the concept of compounding remains the ...

[edit] Anyone for a 100 billion dollars?

25 July 2008, by guest2008 This post is a guest contribution by Prieur du Plessis, writer of the Investment Postcards from Cape Town blog. Full marks for eBay entrepreneurs for stepping in where forex traders have lost count of the zeros being added to the Zim ...

[edit] Fannie and Freddie: One HELOC to Go, Please

23 July 2008, by pk Late today the US House of Representatives okayed Treasury Secretary Paulson's aid plan for beleaguered mortgage financing duopoly Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. My favorite part? The plan includes, as requested, an unlimited line of ...

[edit] Hedge Fund Coin Flipping - DealBreaker.Com

23 July 2008, by

[edit] Afternoon Reading: XM-Sirius–From Here to Eternity - Wall Street Journal Blogs

22 July 2008, by

[edit] Hedge Fund Job: Must Understand Benford's Law

21 July 2008, by guest2008 Another guest post The folks over at Valleywag are having fun with a Craigslist posting for a hedge fund job. In addition to looking for someone with all the typical quant skills, the ad asks applicants to do the following ...

[edit] Paul Kedrosky - RGE Monitor

21 July 2008, by

[edit] Gentlemen, No Short-Selling in Here! This is the Stock Market!

15 July 2008, by pk Today's news that SEC Chair Chris Cox is trying to create a kinder stock market by announcing a rule that already exists -- you must pre-borrow stock before you can short it -- reminded me of something straight out of Dr. Strangelove. ...

[edit] Citi + BoA Losses = Rest of US Banking's Value

15 July 2008, by pk By my calculation, the two largest US banks, Citi and Bank of America, have over the last year lost roughly as much in market capitalization as is the current value of the other six US banks combined. To be specific, Citi and BofA have ...

[edit] An Hour with Jamie Dimon

9 July 2008, by pk Must watch: Charlie Rose in an hour-long discussion with JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon. After watching it, go read selectively from the viewer posts -- including some scathing stuff from at least one ex-JPM employee -- on the Charlie Rose ...

[edit] Afternoon Reading: Not a Good Day to Be a Company Director - Wall Street Journal Blogs

7 July 2008, by

[edit] Weakness in financial shares deepens - MarketWatch

7 July 2008, by

[edit] Thrice-Removed - istockAnalyst.com

7 July 2008, by

[edit] Banking Losses to Hit $1.6-Trillion

6 July 2008, by pk According to a Bridgewater study leaked by a Swiss paper today, total financial losses from the the current credit crisis will hit $1.6-trillion, well above most current estimates. Here is the German/English translation: ...

[edit] Another Not-Quite-a Linkfest

6 July 2008, by 20080703183733_3 Another Not-Quite-a Linkfest, filled with random holiday weekend linkage . . . ~~~ INVESTING & TRADING • The Bear is Back (Barron's) but see also Barron's: Back in the Pool • How to stop the next bubble (Prospect) • Markets calling Bernanke's bluff (Reuters)    • The aughts are ...

[edit] Inaction tied to greed - TheReporter.com

1 July 2008, by

[edit] Dow Jones: Worst June Since Depression

27 June 2008, by Dow Jones: Worst June Since Depression Prieur du Plessis Writes: As a cheerful Bloomberg headline reminds us, equity investors are facing their worst June since the Great Depression. And sure enough, most major markets (the Hang Seng, Dax, CAC, S&P 500 … ) are down more than -8% this month, pulled lower by a number of concerns including a) the health of Western banks, b) the rise in oil prices, c) deteriorating economic growth and d) worsening inflationary pressures. If the current month

[edit] Rating agencies have 'milked' regulatory relationship - Financial News

26 June 2008, by

[edit] Rojo: Salary Voyeurs; Free Appleware; McCain's Beer Flub

13 June 2008, by Top news stories for the week of June 9 - 13, 2008 yangchart TechCrunch calls the new Glassdoor.com a way to find out how much people really make at Google, Yahoo and other companies. VentureBeat says it's a way to let your boss know what you think. Infectious Greed proclaims "call ...

[edit] yahoo google

13 June 2008, by yahoo google Posted in Blog Search Hot Trends at June 13th, 2008 / No Comments » Yahoo –> Google –> YawnWords cannot expressed my indifference to the Yahoo/Google deal. Words cannot expressed my indifference to the Yahoo/Google deal. Words cannot expressed my indifference to the Yahoo/Google deal. Words cannot expressed my indifference to …Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed - http://paul.kedrosky.com/Yahoo Announces Deal With Google; Calls It Part of "Open Strategy"Although Google and […

[edit] Yahoo: Yang Disease is Spreading

16 May 2008, by Yahoo: Yang Disease is SpreadingApparently Yang Disease is spreading at Yahoo. Recall, this is a company that seemingly thinks that, despite being a struggling outfit presented with a 70% price premium over its then trading price,  it is the one that gets to set the terms of the takeover discussion. ...

[edit] The Secret (2006 film)

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[edit] Conservatives Don’t Like Chris Matthews Either, Borowitz’s “Gasbag” Tax

6 May 2008, by CITIZEN JOURNALISM SITE FOLDS IN HOLLAND The Dutch website Skoeps, which invites citizens to submit pictures and video clips of breaking news, will shut down after failing to find a sustainable business model, its owners said on Friday. Such ‘citizen journalism’ sites have become increasingly popular ...

[edit] Analysis of the Microsoft Decision, Part II: What’s Next?

4 May 2008, by By Paul Kedrosky, Blogger, Infectious Greed So, what happens next? Microsoft has walked away from Yahoo, or at least from its current takeover offer, and is saying it will move forward organically–and said word with its reek of cattle feces is appropriate here. Yahoo, for its part, cites–with less specifics than my 6-year-old gives at day-end when claiming “good behavior”–the many golden wonders ahead of it in its post-Microsoft future. Read the rest of this post

[edit] Yahoo’s Nightmare Scenario: I’m From Google and I’m Here to Help!

4 May 2008, by Here’s what a top-notch source at Yahoo joked to me tonight, after Microsoft walked away from its unsolicited takeover bid to acquire the long-troubled Internet giant. “Google is now officially our best friend.” Oh no. Instantly, an image popped into my brain– that of the slithery Kaa singing “Trust in Me (The Python Song)” to Mowgli from the Disney classic animated film, “The Jungle Book.” “Trust in me, just in me Shut your eyes and trust in me You can sleep safe and sound Knowing I

[edit] Ballmer, Yang Agree to See Other People

4 May 2008, by Is that it? After all that sturm und drang, the chase ends like this? Microsoft sweetened its offer to $33, knowing full well that Yahoo was going to stand firm at $37 a share, and reject the sweetened bid. Hence, Ballmer got his face saving way to walk without further humiliation. Why am I not surprised?  Two of the least sexy internet names end not with a bang but a thud. Could we have seen at last the end of the dinosaur mating dance? My fri

[edit] Forbes Column: Lighting The Way In India

2 May 2008, by I had concluded a previous Forbes column by saying greed is infectious. My new Forbes column, Lighting The Way In India, highlights an entrepreneur who does not give a damn about greed. You have read his interview, perhaps, here.

[edit] Rojo: Apple Surge, Sexy Spelling... and Tom Cruise As a Nazi

25 April 2008, by Top stories for the week of April 21 -25, 2008 image3780272(1) Given time to digest the results of Pennsylvania's Tuesday Democratic presidential primary, pundits are doing some aftermath math.  Let's see: Clinton beat Obama by ten percent but still trails in delegates. At the Huffington Post, contributor ...

[edit] Yahoo Conference Call

23 April 2008, by Yahoo Conference CallQuinlan : Come on, read my future for me. Tanya : You haven't got any. Quinlan : What do you mean? Tanya : Your future is all used up.     - from Touch of Evil (1958) The Yahoo Q1 conference call is underway. I'll give Jerry et al., credit for at least trying to talk futures, which ...

[edit] How Fish Farming is Killing Salmon

3 April 2008, by A virus called infectious salmon anemia, or ISA, is killing millions of salmon in Chile. The plague has resulted in 1,000 workers losing their jobs, and has opened fish farming companies to charges that breeding salmon in crowded underwater pens is contaminating once-pristine waters and producing ...

[edit] How Fish Farming is Killing Salmon

3 April 2008, by A virus called infectious salmon anemia, or ISA, is killing millions of salmon in Chile. The plague has resulted in 1,000 workers losing their jobs, and has opened fish farming companies to charges that breeding salmon in crowded underwater pens is contaminating once-pristine waters and producing ...

[edit] Orbitz Prospectus Gets Mixed Reviews

26 March 2008, by The online travel site Orbitz Worldwide “isn’t a bad company,” Kevin Kelleher writes on GigaOM.com. It is nevertheless a contender for “the worst I.P.O. candidate of the year,” he concludes. Mr. Kelleher is not the only one speaking harshly about Orbitz’s proposed initial public offering, in which it hopes to sell as much as $750 million in stock and give the proceeds to its parent company, Travelport. The Chicago Tribune’s Bill Barnhart suggested the I.P.O. filing, which came less than a year

[edit] infectious greed

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[edit] Assembly-line colonoscopies at clinic described

25 March 2008, by Sarina wrote an interesting post today on Here’s a quick excerpt If you want to get a sense of the rushed medical procedures that patients encountered inside the clinic that triggered the unprecedented hepatitis scare, consider Duke Breuer’s experience.After undergoing a colonoscopy at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada, Breuer asked a nurse what he should do about the bandage on his right forearm.“Take it off when you get home,” the nurse said.Later, when the 78-year-old Breuer pulled up

[edit] Brazil Powers Ahead

12 March 2008, by A longer and more ruminative post later, but in all my discussions here in Brazil the thing that comes through most clearly is of a country in a convincing and continuing economic break-out. A transition to a stable democracy combined with a more entrepreneurial economy and more sophisticated investors, ...

[edit] Sneak Peak at Weekend Reading

9 March 2008, by Here is a sneak peek at some links from my weekly Weekend Reading column over TheStreet.com. Solar energy firms leave waste behind in China (washingtonpost.com) Oil demand is drying up - slightly (S.F. Chronicle) Bill Miller is betting on Countrywide and Yahoo (Fortune) Attempts at beating the market ...

[edit] Despair for our future now...

22 February 2008, by Confederacy of dunces indeed... From Paul Kedrosky's always-worthwhile "Infectious Greed": http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2008/02/21/despair_for_our.html jb _______________________________________________ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork

[edit] GPS device sales explode in Q4

20 February 2008, by NPD data, just released, depict an interesting shift in consumer electronics purchases through the holiday 2007 shopping season. [The chart is courtesy of Infectious Greed’s Paul Kedrosky, who has his own interesting riff on things. Click on it to enlarge.] Predictably, LCD TV sales were a big winner. Nothing terribly surprising there. One also sees a curious drop in MP3 player sales (are you listening, Apple?) and digi-cameras. Off the cuff, I’d say the ’mobilization of everything’ trend i

[edit] Infectious Greed: Money:Tech Post-Mortem, Plus a Personal Note

19 February 2008, by Money:Tech program chair Paul Kedrosky wraps up the first-ever event on his blog: Money:Tech came off better than I could ever have reasonably expected, especially considering it was a) a first-time event b) in an emerging subject and c) on the other side of the country. Ordinarily, self-centered sort ...

[edit] YouNoodle — Venture-Capital-in-a-Box

18 February 2008, by Ffggggggg "Is your start-up worthy of investment?" is how Matt Richtel's article in today's New York Times begins. Got my attention, fer shur. Long story short: YouNoodle has a black box (as opposed to the black ball (top) I've been using, with not a whole lot of success when it comes to the money —not ...

[edit] YouNoodle Thinks AI Can Predict Startup Success

18 February 2008, by We cover a lot of startups here at TechCrunch, but I don’t recall ever having covered a startup that thinks it can use artificial intelligence to predict whether other startups will be successful. YouNoodle promises to do just that.The site opens to the public today, and they chose the NY Times to pitch their product:Kirill [...] read more

[edit] Microsoft/Yahoo: Good for Google, Ok for Yahoo, Bad for Microsoft

13 February 2008, by Microsoft/Yahoo: Good for Google, Ok for Yahoo, Bad for MicrosoftIn case you haven't looked, it's useful to scan how Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo respective shares have done since the proposed Microsoft/Yahoo news came out. Once you net out the the initial Yahoo post-news bump, here is what you get: ...

[edit] Jeremy Grantham on a Microsoft/Yahoo Deal

11 February 2008, by Jeremy Grantham on a Microsoft/Yahoo DealYou might say that is a company in serious trouble being acquired by a company that is worried, maybe desperate. And that doesn't sound like a very strong deal to anybody.      -- From Barron's... Read the full post from Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed ...

[edit] Prolific: Characterized by an abundance of production

5 February 2008, by Tomorrow and Thursday two prolific people are hosting a conference in New York called Money:Tech. Prolific blogger Paul Kedrosky of Infectious Greed and prolific publisher and conference-thrower Tim O'Reilly have teamed up to create a conference that probably should have been created years ago, even through the theme is "Web 2.0 meets Wall Street." The challenge of course is that if you have secret formula for alpha, you're not going to share it. And if Web 2.0 is in some measure defined b