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How Americans Missed Out On A Major Part Of The Stock Market Rally
Dec. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Americans have missed out on almost $200 billion of stock gains as they drained money from the market in the past four years, haunted by the financial crisis.Assets in equity...
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Kids Want iPads, Not Toys For Christmas
Toymakers are likely to see their Christmas sales squeezed this year, as children ditch traditional dolls and board games for Kindles and hand-me-down tablet computers, according to analysts.Mattel,...
View ArticleBest And Worst Country ETFs Of 2012
For the first time in years, a U.S. ETF was one of the highest yielding of the year, as Dow Jones US Construction Index Fund (ITB) surged ahead of the pack. While home-building in the United States is...
View ArticleGold and Silver Outlook for December 24-28
The prices of gold and silver also fell during last week. As the year is winding down and the concerns revolving the fiscal cliff might result in a rise in the volatility of precious metals....
View ArticleO Come, Emmanuel
Number 2 – The PianoGuys.O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel, That mourns in lonely exile here Until the Son of God appear.Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.O...
View ArticleSilencing the Science on Gun Research
There is still a lot of headline material concerning the role of guns in our lives, and a lot of anecdotal material and thoughts abound. Also I seem to note an increase in the reporting of police in...
View ArticleBring your gun to work 2005
NRA campaigns to bring a gun to work should be remembered: Actually, the NRA's power has been waning since at least 2005 when it declared a boycott against ConocoPhillips, a major Oklahoma employer...
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Christmas Is Not An Economically Efficient Holiday, And That's Okay
In 1881, George Blankenshop, a Canadian bureaucrat surveying the Indian population around modern-day Vancouver, sent a scathing note to the Canadian government regarding a ceremony called "potlatch."...
View Article42 Companies Flagged For An Irregular Investment Pattern
Neither share repurchases nor insider sales necessarily point to hidden risks at public companies. Under certain circumstances, corporations can legitimately buy back attractively valued stock, and...
View ArticleWatch the Cincinnati Zoo Generate Solar Power in Real Time
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden Read more posts on Financial Conservation »Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story »
View ArticleThe Idiotic Politicization of the Term “Politicization”
We have got to calm down and not take tragedies like this, crimes like this, and use them for political purposes. -- Grover Norquist, yesterdayI agree. We also shouldn’t, say, take tragedies like the...
View Article750MW of Solar Energy in Riverside County to Power 200,000 Homes
“The 750MW project will represent one of the largest PV projects on public lands in the Californian desert and will be developed, owned and operated by McCoy Solar, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy...
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This Chilling Economic Report Is Getting Passed Around By CEOs
Over an early-morning coffee with the chief executive of an FTSE 100 business last week, talk turned to the outlook for 2013. Where I had expected some guarded optimism, instead I heard a chilling...
View ArticleSilent Night
Saturday Night Live and the New York City Children’s Chorus honor the victims of Sandy Hook. The tragedy weighs heavy on Christmas this year.(click here if video is not observable) Read more posts on...
View ArticleOn DeLong V Krugman
Brad DeLong and Paul Krugman are having a mini debate on whether Brad et al (that means the Clinton administration) had good reason to fear bond vigilantes in the 90s. Krugman argued no. DeLong...
View ArticleO Holy Night
The Corrs.(click here if video is not observable) Read more posts on Global Macro Monitor »Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story »
View ArticleNotes Toward Economics at (or, more accurately, approaching)the Eschaton
No, not Dr. Black’s blog. The real eschaton: the end of everything. Or, in this case, its economics equivalent: the point at which almost all human work is no longer necessary but human beings still...
View ArticleHallelujah, Handel’s Messiah
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge live performance of Handel’s Messiah.(click here if video is not observable) Read more posts on Global Macro Monitor »Please follow Money Game on Twitter and...
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Japan's Incoming PM Reminds The World He's Serious, Scares The Yen To...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Incoming Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe kept up his calls on Tuesday for the Bank of Japan to drastically ease monetary policy by setting an inflation target of 2 percent, and...
View ArticleWe've Got Bigger Problems Than The Fiscal Cliff, But Let's Look On The Bright...
NOTE: This post was originally published on December 24.It is Christmas Eve and not the time for long letters – just a brief note on why the fiscal cliff is not the End of All Things, and to point out...
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