Articles of the week (15/2009 & 16/2009)

Posted on Apr 17, 2009 in Finance I didn’t post an financial article last week because of Easter holiday’s so this time around there will be three main articles and a few more runner ups: Last week’s article is How Bernanke Staged a Revolution by Neil Irwin in The Washington Post. Following is a small excerpt and link to the print friendly version of the article. I recommend reading the print friendly version since...
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Article of the week (14/2009): My Manhattan Project

Posted on Apr 3, 2009 in Finance This week’s article is My Manhattan Project by Michael Osinski in New York magazine. Following is a small excerpt and link to the print friendly version of the article. I recommend reading the print friendly version since it’s easier to read instead of having to continuously load a new page: I have been called the devil by strangers and “the Facilitator” by friends. It’s not uncommon...
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Article of the week (13/2009): The Big Takeover

Posted on Mar 27, 2009 in Finance Since I read anywhere from 20 to 100 articles on finance a week I thought it would be a nice addition to the blog to share the best ones here. So in the future I’ll be posting my favourite article from the previous week on Fridays along with some runner-ups if there are many good articles that week. This week’s article is The Big Takeover by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone magazine....
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Fooled By Randomness

Posted on Mar 20, 2009 in Books, Finance After reading Nassim Taleb’s The Black Swan a few months back I kind of figured out that I might as well read Taleb’s first book on the subject, Fooled By Randomness as well. Both Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan make good points about the need of understanding the concepts of fat tale events. The book also makes good points about the things that take place around us being...
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When Markets Collide

Posted on Mar 17, 2009 in Books, Finance I recently read Mohamed A. El-Erian’s When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change. The book has been sitting in my shelf for a few months but since it got the Financial Times Book of the Year Award last year and was hyped a lot over the holidays I finally caved and read it. I may have started reading the book with a bit of a bias because of all the hype...
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Jim Cramer vs Jon Stewart

Posted on Mar 17, 2009 in Finance Over the last two weeks there has been an ongoing feud between Jon Stewart of The Daily Show and Jim Cramer over at CNBC or that’s how the US news are reporting it. This all started when Jon criticized the media and especially CNBC for being nothing but cheerleaders for the financial world and not doing there due diligence when it comes to research and how they report to the republic. Jim...
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