Archive for March, 2008
Thoughts on Bear Stearns
I was away this week as the news came out about the Bear Stearn’s bail out buy out. There’s been a ton written on the subject already, but I thought I’d collect a few of the best pieces out there and throw my two cents in. Many pundits seem up in arms that the Fed [...]
read more »The Curious Investor too hard to read?
Thanks to the Trainee Trader for doing a little ranking of finance blogs and their readability this past week. It turns out that, among 39 other finance blogs, The Curious Investor ranks with just 7 others for a “Genius” reading level. For a complete list, check out the original post. Each site was ranked using [...]
read more »Circuit Breakers
I mentioned the term circuit breaker in yesterday’s post on government intervention in falling markets without really defining it. Circuit breakers are a market euphemism for trading curbs which are instituted during particularly intense draw downs in the broad market. They typically refer to stoppages of trading by the NYSE and were instituted after Black [...]
read more »When Free Markets Fail
This week, I read two really great articles on the current public policy response to the credit and suprime crisis that I would like to share. First, an article from Businessweek which helps to put the recent Fed moves to provide liquidity in context. We’ve been seeing some unprecedented decisions by Ben Bernanke and the [...]
read more »How to become the richest person in the world
I read a very interesting article on Arohan’s Investing Life this week. He compared Stephen Schwarzman and Warren Buffett in order to make the argument that the hedge fund model, while very lucrative for hedge fund managers, doesn’t necessarily yield the best return for great investors. It’s based mostly on an article published in the [...]
read more »Trading versus Investing
After my recent post examining the response to event risk (and when it manifests itself) depending on perspective as a trader or as an investor, I realized that it might be a good idea to throw my two cents in on the difference between trading and investing. It would seem that this is a pretty [...]
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