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Equity versus Debt
Catching up on the indexing debates
Feb 2007 US Stock Valuation Update - Things Still Look Fair
Hedge Fund Clones - What's the Point?
Happy New Year, finally. I Bond Update from Tom Adams.
Nov. 2006 valuation update for Large-Cap US Stocks
Fiscally incontinent Republicans out, bond market up
Internet Explorer 7 scrambles this blog,
Jeremy Siegel checks in on Global Warming
Tom Adams: New I Bond Inflation Component will be 3.10%
Friedrich von Hayek was wrong (economist Jeffrey Sachs)
Sharpe v. Markowitz - Is the Capital Asset Pricing Model washed up?
Some notes about the Dow's high and Republican claims
Dow Industrials edging toward all-time high
How U.S. Taxpayers Subsidize Wal*Mart's High Profits and Bad Corporate Citizenship
I Bond yields will likely rebound come November
U.S. Stock Valuation Update, September 2006
Good News and Bad News on Boomer Retirement.
Chasing Performance is also Stupid when Pension Funds do it
Jeremy Siegel loves fundamentally weighted index funds
Behavioral foible of the day: Loss Aversion
Norway thinks corporations shouldn't be scumbags.
Fear's Here, Dear.
Flushing the Chumps
Bloody Murder
Chuck Jaffe scooped everybody on the dumbass Right-Wing mutual fund.
What happens to your hit-count when Atrios links to your site
Stupid Investment Idea of the Year: Socially Irresponsible Mutual Fund
Valuation Schmaluation
Asset Class Returns, year-to-date and trailing 12 month
Recency Bias Comes as No Surprise, Even for Pension Funds
Tom Delay's Inside Trader? (Hello, SEC?)
Ketchup
Fed predictions, hoo haw, et cetera.
S&P 500's dividends creep up a bit more
An opportunity to become more confused about the "equity risk premium" should not be passed up.
Actuary calls bullshit on rehashed Bush Social Security rip-off cheerleading
Of Lipstick and Pigs
We Have Found the Indicator, and It is Us (Maybe)
Wolfie Knows Shit from Shinola: Sock it Away in that 401k!
Wacky Curve!
Shiller's Prediction on the S&P, Ten Years After
A US Stock Valuation Disagreement
Those Amazing, Fiscally Incontinent Republicans
New Indexing Book Sounds Pretty Groovy
PIMCO - Bullish on Bonds
Investors Still Like Stocks, Managers Like Home Countries
Asset Class Returns for 2005
Fuckity
The Strong Case for more Dart-Throwing Monkeys
More Joy Under the Buttonwood Tree
Highest S&P Close Since June 2001
Indexing - Currier Blows it, Benz Gets it
A Bit of Sector Rotation
Core and Top-line CPI Match at 0.2% for October
Did Big Oil Lie to Congress Last Week?
HCA: Another Dot to Connect?
Buffett Bags Bad Dollar Bet
Valedictory Hypocrisy of the Departing Chairman (Redux)
Still Removing Accommodation at a Measured Pace
New Series I Savings Bonds - 6.73% through April 30, 2006
Asset Class Returns, Year-to-Date
Tuesday is Savings Bonds Rate Announcement Day
"Tossed on a Sea of Troubles, Soul, My Soul"
Nicely Said, Bill
Frist: Precision, Preschmision
US Consumers Lack Confidence. What's the Big Surprise?
The Bets are on Bernanke
More Evidence that Bill Frist Flat-out Lied. Surprised?
Econo-Week in Preview
A Dopey Move out of International Stocks
Maybe this is why the Republican Budget Deficits are so high
Leading Indicators
Free Market Fetishists Against Bush
Beige Book Still Beige, Housing Starts Strong
That Sputtering Job Engine - Two Johns Heard From
More Inflation
Does the Conference Board Think the Fed is Faking?
Interesting Times. Econo-Reports, Last Week and This Week.
September Consumer Inflation Sets a Record; Core Inflation Tame
Moral Black Hole
Chasing Performance, Institutional Style
Frist's Wiggly World
Here Come those Doggoned "Activist" Pension Funds
Bankrupt Delphi's Sweet Deal for Executive Failures
Some Columbus Day Sadness
Chump Change Report: Will I Bonds Pay 6 Percent?
Bush's Appointment Habits and Greenspan's Successor
Quote of the Day from a Bond Portfolio Manager
What a Way to Start a Quarter
US Services Sector Slowed in September. Layoffs Accelerated.
Super Secret of 401k Success: Contribute to the Damned Thing.
A Cry of Candor in the Wilderness of Portfolio Management
The Consumption State: Buying Shit Equals 71% of GDP
Media Boobsquad: Kudlow Again, Naturally
The September Pop in Manufacturing
Caroline "Dow 36,000" Baum?
PIMCO's Paul McCulley: "Stagflationary Soft-Landing" for US
Asset Class Returns: "Emerging Markets" at the top
Lynchpins of Global Economy Showing Stress - Consumer Spending Down
Best Restaurant BLT in Years
Data Points - Nothing Shocking
"Workin' It!" with Tom Delay
And the Chairman Droned On
Give Us This Day Our Daily Frist
My Goodness, That's a Crappy Number
That's Bill's Story and He's Stickin' To It!
Flagged for Follow-Up: New Dividend ETF.
The SEC Chair's "Recusal" in the Frist Matter
Asset Bubble Update - Residential Real Estate
More Bush Crony Contracts, This Time for Katrina
Asset Allocation Update
Greenspan Frets over Fiscal Incontinence
Anti-War
Valuation Snapshot - US Stocks, Sept 23, 2005
Chump Change Report - Online Savings Rates Crawling Up
Will Bill Pull a Martha?
Rita and the Oil Rigs
World of Hurt
Worldcom Settlement: Round Up the Usual Suspects
Bill Frist's "Blind" Stock Trade and the Smell Test
Climate Change and Corporate Competitiveness
The One Percenters
Fed Raises a Quarter
Bush's Thievery Corporation in Action: One Brief Study in Contrasts

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