Happy 2008!

Happy New Year!!Sorry I have been so bad of late updating the blog. Just too many things going on with a paper, an article to review, plus BonaResponds, and trying to put together a book. Stay tuned.I will be gone for about 10 days to work on Hurricane some homes in Mississippi where I probably will not have much internet access, but will be back in a few weeks when classes start on the 14th.

Jim Cramer: Mad No More?

Jim Cramer: Mad No More?: "How about this for a new surprise? Jim Cramer, sober-minded personal finance guru.It creates some contradictions. The hyperactive stockpicker on CNBC's Mad Money has a new book out advising most readers not to buy individual stocks at all"Wow. A Christmas miracle? Or more likely he has known it all along and realized that picking stocks makes for better TV.

Freakonomics Being Documentary-ized « FirstShowing.net

Indie Spotlight: Freakonomics Being Documentary-ized « FirstShowing.net: "...an upcoming adaptation of the New York Times Bestseller by Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner - Freakonomics. The catch is that a group of documentary directors are teaming up to make a documentary based on Freakonomics, with each making a 15 minute segment based off of a couple of chapters."I cannot remember the last

The Anatomy of Financial Crises: Understanding Their Causes and Consequences - Knowledge@Wharton

Gee, I may have to ask Santa for this one. It looks VERY good!The Anatomy of Financial Crises: Understanding Their Causes and Consequences - Knowledge@Wharton: "Crises have been a feature of the financial landscape for hundreds of years. They often appear with little warning, as the sub-prime mortgage crisis of 2007 and the Asian crisis of 1997-1998 illustrate. It's not always clear what causes

Stocks rise when sun shines | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Business

We've talked about this several times in class so when I stumbled upon this in the Dallas Morning News (it is orignally from the Washington Post) I figured I better share it!Stocks rise when sun shines | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Business: "In a study of 26 stock markets around the world between 1982 and 1997, researchers David Hirshleifer and Tyler Shumway showed that the

Well this is one way to make sure people pay their loans!

Yeah...well I guess...hope this one is not true, but given the high default rates we are seeing, maybe...lol...Loan thugs strike again, bash up 58-year-old professor- Hindustan Times: "THE POLICE are investigating charges leveled by a professor of a reputed engineering college against a multinational bank, which allegedly sent a pack of intimidating loan recovery agents to hound him. Prof J.S.

Yet more reasons on why there are more Buys than Sells

Bloomberg.com: Exclusive: "Shrinking fees from brokerage commissions mean fewer dollars for research and more pressure on analysts to hang on to paying customers such as hedge funds. While clients care little for ratings, they covet meetings with company executives -- audiences that favored analysts can deliver. As a result, ``sell'' ratings on Wall Street are even scarcer than four years ago,

NYSE fights to maintain once crowded trading floor

AFP: NYSE fights to maintain once crowded trading floor: "The computer age has wiped out the need for human traders in many stock markets around the world, but the New York Stock Exchange is fighting to ensure the survival of its historic trading floor. At 11 Wall Street behind the NYSE's imposing white marble facade, about 1,500 dealers continue to buy and sell shares on the exchange's trading