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November 2010 -  Is China's Growth Rate Destined To Be Cut In Half?  *** Highly Recommended ***

November 2010 - A Special Note on Gold, the Sovereign Debt problem, and related Investment Strategy 

November 2010 - Rome and the Collapse Paradigm

November 2010 - Heaton, Emerging Markets: High Growth, Low Return?
 
November 2010 - IFA Radio's Episode 43, at 14:00 - all about this site from my appearance on Mark Hebner's radio program  

November 2010 - Historical diamond trade price trend evolution 

November 2010 - Mortgage Securitization Process in pictures

November 2010 - Stossell, I am Politically Incorrect 

September 2010 - 12 Steps to Understanding the Equity Market    sad to say, actually, but this sums up really all you need to know about the stock market and stock picking

September 2010 - A Special Note on Gold, the Sovereign Debt problem, and related Investment Strategy

September 2010 -Maritime jurisdiction and boundaries in the Arctic region

September 2010 - Long Swings in Global Growth Drivers

September 2010 -Sclunk, Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be...Lawyers  

September 2010 - The Capitalism Distribution

September 2010 - IMF, People’s Republic of China: 2010 Article IV Consultation—Staff Report; Staff, Statement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion 

September 2010 - Cleveland FRB, Credit Easing Policy Tools 

July 2010 - Middleton, The Mobile Computing and Content Wars: Part 2, the Google Response to the Paradigm Shift 

July 2010 - Darden, Alpha Is Dead: Barclays Says With Stock Dispersion At All Time Lows, It Is "Not A Stock Pickers' Market"  - when was it ever a stock pickers market?  

July 2010 - Share of College Spending for Recreation Is Rising 

July 2010 - Goldberg, CXO Models Are Poor Forecasting Tools: Tic-Tac-Toe Player Attempts Chess, Fails 

July 2010 - THE FLORIDA KEYS ARE STARING DOWN THE BARREL   

June 2010 - FINVIZ.com - financial visualizations - very cool stuff  

June 2010 - Long Swings in Global Growth Drivers 

June 2010 - A Look Inside the Fed’s Balance Sheet — 03/25/2010 Update

June 2010 - Tactical Asset Allocation: Adjusting Based on Valuations 

June 2010 - Stock Mapper 

June 2010 -  It's Impossible To "Get By" In The US 

April 2010 - Tactical Asset Allocation: Adjusting Based on Valuations

April 2010 - Long Swings in Global Growth Drivers 

March 2010 - A Look Inside the Fed’s Balance Sheet — 03/25/2010 Update

January 2010 -  SRC GREEN BOOK - 50 year charts with earnings!! - spurlge on the 100 year wall chart at least once in your investing career - it will teach you all you need to know about the stock market in about three minutes    *** Highly Recommended ***

January 2010 -  Durden, Brace For Impact: In 2010, Demand For US Fixed Income Has To Increase Elevenfold... Or Else 

January 2010 -  The Tree of Truth - How to Tell If Your Sovereign Debt Is In Trouble 

January 2010 -  Who Is Financing the Deficit? No Surprise Here

January 2010 - Teather, The woman who built financial 'weapon of mass destruction' 

 December 2009 - Where Will You Be In Ten Years? 

December 2009 - NY Fed's Model Predicts End of Recession in 2009 

December 2009 - How The iPhone Is Blowing Everyone Else Away (In Charts) 

December 2009 - Fekete, Forgotten Anniversary: One Hundred Years of Legal Tender 

December 2009 - The History of the House of Rothschild 

December 2009 - S&P 500 Over Priced: With 97% of Companies Reporting Q2 Earnings the PE Ratio is Now at 129. The Most Over Hyped Market Rally Ever 

September 2009 - China calls time on dollar hegemony  

September 2009 - Oil Priced in SDRs, in 1979 

September 2009 -  50 Free Ivy-League Lectures on the Economy  

September 2009 - Buffett’s Betrayal

September 2009 - Breakdown of a Hypothetical Bond Spread by Contributing Factors (Picture)             *** Highly Recommended ***

September 2009 - High Frequency Trading: We Fear What We Do Not Understand 

June 2009 - Regression and R-Squared Explained

June 2009 - TED Talks - 570 to date 

June 2009 - Financial Crisis

         BIS, Derivative Markets Last Half of 2008 

         Job Losses so Far

         Credit Crisis Indicators - some calming 

          Sorman, Monetarism Defiant 

          Mortgage Rate Resets 

          IMF Global Financial Stability Report - April 2009 

February 2009 - Stock Market Earnings Yield and Inflation Over the Long Run

February 2009 - Best 25 Financial Blogs 

February 2009 - Money as Debt - the movie   

February 2009 -  Financial Crisis

         Follow The 8.5 Trillion - a good list of where the money is going (or was going at the time) 

        Bernie Comes Out of the Closet - a classic case of a money manager telling clients the market can be beat

         Garrett, The Real Cost of the 2008 Bailout - Hyperinflation 

   More on Gold Backwardation 

         Wallison, Everything You Wanted to Know about Credit Default Swaps--but Were Never Told 

          The Scariest Chart Ever - everyone and their mother is linking to this but just for posterity sake  

 

 

November 2008 - Financial Crisis

          Washington's $5 Trillion Tab  

           DiLorenzo, The New Deal Debunked (again)  *** Highly Recommended ***

           mybudget360, American Debtor Psycho: $49 Trillion in Debt. The Real Reason why the Credit Crisis is Bigger than you Think 

            Major holders of treasury securities

         Gallagher, How Venice Rigged The First, and Worst, Global Financial Collapse 660 Years Ago  

November 2008 - Map of Europe 1-1000 A.D.

October 2008  - Financial Crisis - there is lots out there - trying to be selective:

        What are Credit Default Swaps? 

        The $700 billion will buy about $2.0 trillion of the $13.6 trillion mortgage debt outstanding  

         Kessler, The Paulson Plan Will Make Money For Taxpayers   

         10 Links to Walk You Through Today's Financial Crisis  

         10 good articles with some background 

October 2008 - CXO Advisory Group - the Fed Model on steroids

July 2008 - Watching The Growth Of Wal-Mart Across America 

July 2008 - longbets.org Warren Buffet bets $1.0 million that fund mangers cannot outperform the S&P 

July 2008 - MASSIVE DROP IN U.S. DEMAND IN APRIL

 Peak Oil Debunked

July 2008 - Berner, Has Housing Bottomed, and Is Recovery Ahead? 

April 2008 - Princeton Economics Group, Inc. - good site 

April 2008 - MIT, Economic History, Fall 2006 

April 2008 - Efficient Markets, Spin, Speculative frenzy, … 

April 2008 - World's Most Worthless Money 

April 2008 - Mark Stephen Rapp's Site - Research Resources for Economists 

February 2008 - Harford, The Stag Hunt The obscure game-theory problem that explains why rich countries are rich

February 2008 - Watson, Forget Looking Rich...Be Rich!

February 2008 - Russel, Torbey, The Efficient Market Hypothesis on Trial :A Survey

February 2008 - Six Ways to Compute the Relative Value of a U.S. Dollar Amount, 1790 - 2006 

October 2007 - Waldfogel,  The Flintstone Effect Tracing wealth back to the Stone Age 

October 2007 - Morgan Stanley, After the Shock: Risks for the Global Economy and Markets 

October 2007 - Morgan Stanley Global Economic Forum 

October 2007 - Reading List, International Macroeconomic Policy:  Theory and Evidence from Recent Financial Crises 

August 2007 - Tsai, How Do You Inject Money Into the Economy?  

August 2007 (published July 2007) - Bayless, The Seeds of Corporate Failure 

August 2007 - bruegel.org - good European economic analysis

August 2007 - A Brief History of Derivatives 

August 2007 - A Chronology of Derivatives 

June 2007 - Hanna, Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors  

June 2007 - Bernstein, Comin' Around Again? 

April 2007 - Robinson, Who's the Fairest of Them All? A Comparative Analysis of Financial Advisor Compensation Models 

April 2007  - Bernstein, The Executioner of Excellence

January 2007 (published October 2006) - Dowling, Lucey, The 7 Deadly Sins of Investors  

January 2007 (published November 2006) - Hewitt Associates, The Retiree Health Care Challenge 

November 2006 (published April 2006) - Riepe, Swerbenski, Investment Research Rebalancing for Tax-Deferred Accounts: Just Do It—Don't Worry How 

November 2006  (published January 2006) - Portfolio Rebalancing in Theory and Practice  

November 2006 (published May 2006) - Asset Class Returns: 10 Years Later 

September 2006 - "Top 20" financial blogs recommended by "24/7 Wall Street"   

September 2006 (published in April 2006) - Goetzmann, The Ancient Roots of Today's Financial Tools 

July 2006 (published December 2005) - Dammon, Poterba, Spatt, Zhang,  Maximizing Long-term Wealth Accumulation: It's Not Just About "What" Investments To Make, But Also "Where" To Make Them  

July 2006 (published June 2004) - ING, Asset Allocation 

July 2006 (published 1992) -Sharpe, Asset Allocation: Management Style And Performance Measurement 

May 2006 (published October 2005) - Dammon,  Poterba, Spatt,  Zhang, Maximizing Long-term Wealth Accumulation: It's Not Just About "What" Investments To Make, But Also "Where" To Make Them 

May 2006 (published April 2006) - Troutner, The Squeaky Wheel  

May 2006 (published March 2006) - Introduction by Paul Krugman to The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, by John Maynard Keynes 

May 2006 (published March 2006) - Bernstein, A Mean-Variance Society?  

March 2006 (published February 2006)  - Troutner, Stewards of Capitalism 

March 2006 (published February 2006) - Lord, Asset Allocation or Alpha? 
January 2006 (published September 2005) - Bauman, Two Investment Gurus: Index Funds are Path to a Winning Investment 

November 2005 - Bernstein, Too Much Capital 

November 2005 (published April 2003) Clark, Silva, Reasonable Expectations for the Long Run US Equity Premium  

October 2005 (published June 2005) - Tokat, The Asset Allocation Debate: Provocative Questions, Enduring Realities  *** Highly Recommended ***

October 2005 (published August 2005) - Troutner, Saving Investors From Themselves 

October 2005 - Bernstein, Mea Culpa 

September 2005 - Money Science: Financial Intelligence Network 

September 2005 (published 2002) - Davies, Davies, A Comparative Chronology of Money: Monetary History from Ancient Times to the Present Day 

September 2005 - Financial Institutions Center - working papers 

September 2005 - Revenue Watch, Covering Oil: A Reporters Guide To Energy and Development   - a great big picture description of the oil industry

August 2005 (March 2005) - Hoguet, Oil and Currency Distortions in the World Economy and Their Long-Term Investment Implications 

 

August 2005 - RGE Monitor - this is probably the best site on the web for global economics.  *** Highly Recommended ***

It was updated in July and is much improved but is going to a paid service in September.  Check it out while you can!

August 2005 - econjournalwatch.org - scholarly comments on academic economics.  *** Highly Recommended ***

May 2005 (April 2005) - Bennyhoff, Preserving a Portfolio’s Real Value: Is There an Optimal Strategy? 

May 2005 - Bernstein, Why You Can’t Afford a House in San Francisco 

May 2005 - jasonzweig.com 

May 2005 (Winter 2005)- Bernstein, The $150 Billion Question 

February 2005 - MoneyScience.org - Financial Intelligence Network 

February 2005 (published April 2003)  - Analytic Investors, Reasonable Expectations for the Long-Run U.S. Equity Risk Premium 

February 2005 - Analytic Investors - Research 

February 2005 (published August 2003)  - Baryshevsky, What is hidden in the Fed's model? The Second Approximation 

February 2005 - EDHEC-RISK, Asset Management Research 

December 2004 (published Fall 2004) - Troutman, Plotting Your Course The Art & Science of Our Investment Relationships, Part 1 and Part 2 

December 2004 (published Fall 2004) - Brooks, Gray, History of the Forecasters (abstract only)

December 2004 (published Fall 2204) - Bernstein, Luigi Does It Yet Again  

December 2004 (published May 1998) - Fama, Asset Management:  Engineering Portfolios For Better Returns 

August 2004 - the Efficient Market Hypothesis site - great history of the EMH and bibliography 

August 2004 (published June 2004) - Savage, Prices, Probabilities and Predictions 

 August 2004 (published in January 2004) - Chensvold, DFA vs. Vanguard

June 2004  - Pareto, Engineering For Better Returns    

June 2004 - Haslem, Indexing or Active 

June 2004 - Bogle, Growth vs. Value, 1937-1997  

June 2004 (published May 2004) - Tokat, International Equity Investing: Long-Term Expectations and Short-Term Departures 

April 2004 - Bogle, Why Have Stocks Provided Long-Term Real Returns of 7%?  

March 2004 - Silver, Passive Momentum Asset Allocation: Putting The Market To Work For You 

March 2004 - Lord, Highlights of the 2003 NACUBO Endowment Study 

February 2004 - Sellers, Could Stocks Still Be Undervalued?  

February 2004 - Kizer, Behavioral Bias: A Closer Look at Stock Price Anchoring   

February 2004 (published in January 2004) - Bernstein, Almost Normal: Of Fat Tails, Mean Reversion, and Survival    The two papers cited in the article : Jorion, The Long Term Risks OF Global Stock Markets; Gabaix, Gopikrishman, Plerou, Stanley, A Theory Of Large Fluctuations In Stock Market Activity 

February 2004 (published in 2001) - Arnold, Butler, Crack, Altintig, Impact: What Influences Finance Research? - great reading lists of the top articles in the past 30 years!! (Thanks to Professor Butler of the University of South Florida) 

November 2003 - Rugh, Participant Contribution and Asset Allocations During the Recent Bull and Bear Market: Evidence From TIAA-CREF 

November 2003 -Walsh,  How Much Should a Person Save for Retirement? 

November 2003 (published October 2003) - Mills, The Problem with Hedge Funds 

November 2003 (published July 2003) - Ma, The Impact of the 2003 Tax Law on College Savings Options 

November 2003 - A great article on the father of finance - Louis Bachelier (published in 2000); see also Louis Bachelier (1870-1946) 

November 2003 - Economics History Network - a great spot for those interested in economic history and related topics

November 2003 - Interview with Eugene Fama; Interview with Kenneth French

November 2003 - Buck, Can Brains Beat the Market? 

October 2003 - Merriman, The Perfect Portfolio 

Fall 2003 - Bernstein, Signal, Noise, and Success 

October 2003 - Armstrong, It Don't Get Much Worse Than This! 

August 2003 - Armstrong, Dollar Cost Averaging-The Basics 

July 2003 - Vanguard Investment Counseling & Research, Sources of Portfolio Performance: The Enduring Importance of Asset Allocation  

Summer 2003 - Bernstein, Margin of Safety in the Asset-Class Era 

Summer 2003 - S&P - Active vs. Passive - A New Scorecard 

March 2003 - Troutner, We Are, I Regret, Captives Of Recent History

Spring 2003 (published 9/99) - Diamond, What Stock Market Returns To Expect In The Future?

Spring 2003 - Bernstein, The Returns Fairy... Explained

March 2003- Merriman, The Ultimate Buy-and-Hold Strategy 

February 2003 - J. Troutner - Investors And Advisers Should Fight The Urge To Tweak Their Portfolios Too Much 

February 2003 - Rassmusen, The Nobel Prize In Economics

Winter 2003 – Bernstein, The Retirement Calculator From Hell   

Winter 2003 – Bernstein, The Final Cowards Update (if you are looking for a good basic model portfolio)    

January 2003 – Swedroe, One-Decision Stocks & The Nifty-Fifty - The Price You Pay Does Matter   

Hammond, Understanding and Using Inflation Bonds

November 2002 - Swedroe, Actively Managed Funds and the Implications of Increased Volatility of Equities

November 2002 - Troutner, Total Stock Market Funds Are NOT a Shortcut to Asset Class Diversification

Fall 2002 - Fabozzi, Gupta, Markowitz, The Legacy Of Modern Portfolio Theory (abstract only)

Fall 2002- Feinman, Asset Returns In The Long Run (abstract only)

October 2002 - Armstrong, Fama French Three Factor Model 

December 2002 - Cromwell, Elliott, 130 Years of U.S. Investment Returns: An Historical Perspective 

December 2002 - Asness, Fight the Fed Model: The Relationship Between Stock Market Yields, Bond Market Yields, and Future Returns    * * * Highly Recommended * * *

Fall 2002 - Bernstein, Are Value Stocks Riskier Than Growth Stocks? 

October 2002 - Armstrong, Academic Support For The Use Of Indexing And Passive Investment Techniques: A Review Of The Literature 

September 2002 - Armstrong, Capital Asset Pricing Model 

July 2002 - Swedroe, There Is Trouble In 401(k) Land 

Summer 2002 - Bernstein, The Two Percent Dilution

Summer 2002 - Bernstein, The Cross-Section Of Expected Stock Returns: A Tenth Anniversary Reflection 

June 2002 - Swedroe, Active Small-Cap Managers Add Value: Myth or Reality? 

March 2002 - Choi, How To Publish In Top Journals

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