Links 9/15/2010
- With today marking the anniversary of Lehman’s bankruptcy filing, the trajectory of the stock market during the past two years has been one wild ride. Bespoke Investment Group notes consumer...
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- The recession getting an official ending isn’t a surprise, but it doesn’t change the fact that to the average Joe, it doesn’t feel like the recession’s over. “Obviously, the employment picture is...
View ArticleLinks 9/28/2010
- Deal-making has been coming back, with another spate of deals and potential deals announced yesterday, but with one notable difference, John Curran writes at Time’s Curious Capitalist blog. “The big...
View ArticleLinks 9/29/2010
- Facebook and Skype are poised to announce a major partnership that integrates SMS, voice chat and Facebook Connect, Kara Swisher reports at All Things D, . Move is a “big win” for Skype and makes...
View ArticleLinks 10/4/2010
- Oracle (ORCL) CEO Larry Ellison wasted no time slamming H-P’s (HPQ) hiring last week of former SAP chief Leo Apotheker as new CEO. “I’m speechless,” he tells WSJ late Friday. “H-P had several good...
View ArticleLinks 10/11/2010
- The 10-year yield has fallen 40 bps during the past month, James Hamilton notes at Econbrowser. “If you wanted to attribute all of this to expectations of QE2, and if you were assuming that $400...
View ArticleLinks 10/12/2010
- “The global financial system continues to be unsound in the same way that a Ponzi scheme is unsound,” John Hussman writes. “There are not enough cash flows to ultimately service the face value of all...
View ArticleLinks 10/22/2010
- More than 80% of companies that reported earnings have topped analysts’ estimates. But don’t get too giddy. “After all, ‘better than expected’ could simply reflect the low level of the underlying...
View Article‘You Rebel Scum’
I remember the first time I saw “Star Wars” like it was yesterday, even though it was the summer of 1977. Every kid who saw the movie that summer does. There’d never been anything like it before. It...
View ArticleWhat’s Facebook Worth, Really?
One of the stories circulating today and getting lots of play is this commotion over a $500 million investment in Facebook by Goldman Sachs and Russia’s Digital Sky Technologies — an investment which...
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