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Author Archives: Felix
Hope For Wi-Fi In Airplanes
I think that John Guidon, of Row
44, is the first CEO to leave
a comment under his own name at Market Movers.
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Rupert Murdoch: Probably Posturing
The Monday-at-5pm deadline has come and gone, and the WSJ, of course, has the
best coverage of What On Earth Is Going On with the Bancrofts and Dow Jones.
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Great Moments in Punditry: Jim Cramer on Housing
If I have any ambitions of being a financial pundit, should I try to come up
with stuff like this, from Jim Cramer?
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Joe Nacchio and the Conservative Investors
A 15% capital-gains tax bill is a lot less painful than owning a stock which plunges to zero.
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How the Equity-Research Sausage is Made
You can’t argue with Carl Bialik when he says,
apropos iPhone
sales, that "conducting a flawed survey can be worse than not conducting
a survey at all".
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The Credit Duel, Part 2
The duel of the newsweekly pundits continues!
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Murdoch Says a Majority Isn’t Enough to Buy Dow Jones
Were they talking to me?
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Unlevered High-Risk Debt vs Levered Low-Risk Debt
Alea has found
a tantalizing tidbit from Anthony Morris of UBS, as reported
by Reuters.
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Taking the Laptop on the Train or Plane
Kevin Maney wants
to know why there isn’t wifi on Amtrak.
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Blogs and Stocks
On Monday of last week, Marc Andreessen broke
some big news on his blog: he’d sold his company, Opsware, to HP for $1.6
billion in cash.
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Avant-Garde and Kitsch
The Epicurean Dealmaker reckons that modern art is rubbish
contemporary
art is kitsch.
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Stock Market Forecasts: A Waste of Column Inches
Is there anything more useless than a long newspaper article about where the stock market might be headed?
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There’s No Morality In Bond Yields
Tim Reason says that borrowing costs “ought to reflect” credit risk. My response is that, most of the time they do. But that if and when they don’t, no bolts of lightning will necessarily descend from the Market Gods.
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Murdoch-Dow Jones: A Done Deal, Surely
Murdoch is going to go ahead with his Dow Jones acquisition no matter what, since he has substantially more than 50% of the vote behind him.
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Crawford Hill, Exemplary Epistolizer
Required
reading: Crawford Hill‘s letter to the rest of the Bancroft
family, explaining in glorious detail how and why they deserve their fate of
selling out to Rupert Murdoch.
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Weekend Links Join the Plutocracy
Bill Clinton, blogger.
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Bear Stearns Funds: Still More Questions Than Answers
Back on Monday, I had a whole set of unanswered
questions about the collapsed Bear Stearns hedge funds. Today, we got news
– but no answers to those questions. In fact, there are now more questions
than ever.
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The Denver Bancrofts Play the Ultimatum Game
There’s a famous experiment in experimental economics called the Ultimatum
Game:
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Annals of Excess, Bar Tab Edition
How did the London revellers stay alive?
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In Defense of Securitization
Tim Reason says
that Jonathan Weil is right
and I’m wrong
when it comes to securitization:
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When Counterfeits Increase Brand Value
Lauren Goldstein Crowe reminisces
today about the early days of Kate Spade:
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On the Importance of Grad Students
Is it possible for experimental economists to do first-rate work without grad students?
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Animal Metaphors Gone Wild
What happens when a roaring bull runs into a constipated owl?
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Why Sports Gambling Should Be Legalized
It’s always good to see Justin Wolfers get national exposure,
and he has a
great piece on the op-ed page of the NYT today, about the NBA betting scandal.
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To Get Good Research, Phone the Analyst, Don’t Read his Reports
Yet
another reason to treat published sell-side analysis with a monster pinch
of salt.
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