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Why is the Journal flubbing its biggest story ever?

  • Posted on March 11, 2009
  • by john

“It did good work on the collapse of Bear Stearns a year ago, but for the most part it has done a mediocre job of explaining all that has gone…

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Madoff Story Smells Funny | The Big Picture

  • Posted on December 15, 2008
  • by john

Madoff Story Smells Funny | The Big Picture. The WSJ and NYTimes seem to be hinting at this today too, investigators seem to feel that the sheer amount of work…

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Economists on the bailout

  • Posted on September 23, 2008
  • by john

From Marginal Revolution: Economists Speak: As economists, we want to express to Congress our great concern for the plan proposed by Treasury Secretary Paulson to deal with the financial crisis.…

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The Innovator, the Imitator, the Idiot

  • Posted on September 23, 2008
  • by john

From The Big Picture | The Innovator, the Imitator, the Idiot: “Buffett once told me there are three ‘I’s in every cycle. The ‘innovator,’ that’s the first ‘I.’ After the…

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The Big Picture | Bob Farrell's 10 Rules for Investing

  • Posted on August 18, 2008
  • by john

Great list up at The Big Picture | Bob Farrell’s 10 Rules for Investing — these three really resonate with me: 3. There are no new eras — excesses are…

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Business reading — IndyMac, Customers

  • Posted on July 25, 2008
  • by john

* My Experience at IndyMac: Fraud, Corruption, Criminality. Wow. * The 6 Laws of Customer Experience — nice, clear, succinct read about how to orient towards customers.

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VMware shares plunge on CEO change, slowing growth

  • Posted on July 11, 2008
  • by john

VMware shares plunge on CEO change, slowing growth — seems like a buying opportunity to me, it is hard to imagine a better systems software CEO than Paul Maritz.

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Organic Industry structure

  • Posted on June 14, 2008
  • by john

Phil Howard – Organic Industry — nice charts, the industry is way more consolidated than I realized. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

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Naveen is always entertaining

  • Posted on May 30, 2008
  • by john

Ankur Jain: “I Would Like To Address My Dad’s Character”

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Yahoo — Icahn is a better option??

  • Posted on May 13, 2008
  • by john

OK Yahoo could have been a Microsoft division, all of Microsoft’s internet ambitions would have been handed over to them, they would have been able to run semi-autonomously. Or they…

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Online florists suck

  • Posted on February 8, 2008
  • by john

I’ve had it with 1800flowers, with proflowers, with marthastewart’s site. In the past year I’ve ordered flowers from each and they have all resulted in various disasters — flowers never…

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How do you recession-proof your career?

  • Posted on January 22, 2008
  • by john

Ask The Readers: How Do You Recession-Proof Your Career? — some ideas from others. In my first real job, a wise mentor who had lived through recessions and layoffs gave…

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Gadget put options

  • Posted on January 19, 2008
  • by john

TechForward: Guaranteed Buybacks for Consumer Electronics — via Marginal Revolution. Ideal for someone like me who surfs the wave of the latest technology.

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The Siren Song of Local Reviews

  • Posted on January 3, 2008
  • by john

Chris discusses The Siren Song of Local Reviews as does Andy. Both these guys have a lot of hard-won scars from their experiences. It is a continually intriguing space.

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JB Lesson #1: Market Size

  • Posted on November 7, 2007
  • by john

A Sack of Seattle: Judy’s Book lesson #1: markets win — nice post from Andy — a large growing market trumps all

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$1CDN=$1US

  • Posted on September 20, 2007
  • by john

Marginal Revolution: No More Making Fun of Canadian Money. Wow. The world has voted on the US economy and government policies.

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Consumers Against Higher Interest Rates

  • Posted on September 3, 2007
  • by john

I don’t know what R-67 is, but I’ve seen this group — Consumers Against Higher Insurance Rates — running numerous inflammatory ads against it. Google reveals that one of these…

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Great Quotes re the market

  • Posted on August 8, 2007
  • by john

The Big Picture | Great Market Quotes — I especially like John Maynard Keynes — “Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” and Kin Hubbard — “It…

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pmarca on aging and effectiveness

  • Posted on August 8, 2007
  • by john

It is nice to think that there is some field out there in which I can still be productive… blog.pmarca.com: Age and the entrepreneur, part 1: Some data # This…

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Best Starting Salaries

  • Posted on July 16, 2007
  • by john

College grads see higher starting salaries this year – Jul. 12, 2007 via The Big Picture. Engineering rules yet again. Might be a tortoise and hare thing tho, I’m not…

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