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Older >Samsung's New 13-Inch Display Has a Crazy 3,200 x 1,800 Pixel Resolution
Samsung will be displaying some of its latest and greatest notebook and tablet screens at the Society for Information Display's Display Week 2013. Among them, one stands out: a 13.3-inch notebook display with a 3,200x1,800 (WQXGA+) pixel...
Steve Cohen Only Has To Make It Through The End Of July
Folks are wondering if the government is going to get billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Cohen. The New York Times' Ben Protess and Peter Lattman reported that Cohen received a subpoena last week to testify before a grand jury in an...
Bernanke Tells It The Way He Wants It To Be
Fed chairman Ben Bernanke is living proof that delusional optimism is always possible if the person in question restricts their view to exclude any and all inconvenient considerations which contradict that view. Bernanke made the case for a Happy Future...
Nook Simple Touch reportedly getting web browser, email client on June 1st
Remember that web browser that was found hiding in the Nook's search function? It's time could be nigh. According to a leaked memo acquired by TechCrunch, Barnes & Nobel will be updating the Nook Simple Touch and Simple Touch with...
Here's The Latest Look At The 'Real' Mega Bears
This is a chart that people don't much look at these days. It's updated semi-regularly by Doug Short, and it compares the great US bear market (starting in 2000) with the great Nikkei bear and the Great Depression bear. For awhile all 3 were...
Ryan Avent: "Mr Cowen's posts, and many other like them by other authors, sometimes look like elaborate efforts to avoid concluding...
Ryan Avent watches Karl Smith remind Tyler Cowen that people respond to market prices, and piles on himself: The euro crisis: Der Elefant im Raum: TYLER COWEN writes on the euro-zone economy: Would the new helicopter drop money be kept in...
Financialization and the Incredible Shrinking Time Horizon
Reading this excerpt from an interview with UNCTAD economist Heiner Flassbeck posted at Naked Capitalism prompts these thoughts on how financialization has altered the way capitalism functions. Consider two ways an enterprise can be privately owned and...
Paul Krugman: One of Michael Kinsley's Problem Is That He Is Not Living in the Real 1970s
Paul Krugman: The Mythical 70s: It’s actually even worse than Matt [O'Brien] says. For the 1970s such people remember as a cautionary tale bears little resemblance to the 1970s that actually happened. In elite mythology, the origins of the...
TAXES IN FRANCE 'TOP 100% OF INCOME'...
TAXES IN FRANCE 'TOP 100% OF INCOME'...(First column, 1st story, link) ...
This Is The Chart That Says Japan's Great Economics Experiment Might Be Working
A big economic story this year has been "Abenomics", Japan's effort to get out of its multi-decade deflationary slump using a combo of monetary policy, fiscal stimulus, and structural reforms. We already know it's produced...
The 1 Percent Are Only Half the Problem
Two types of inequality demand our attention. Liberals and conservatives have to open their...
PAPER: GOOGLE whistleblower reveals massive tax avoidance scheme...
PAPER: GOOGLE whistleblower reveals massive tax avoidance scheme...(Second column, 1st story, link) ...
Links for 05-19-2013
Old-fashioned Austerity - Paul Krugman The 1 Percent Are Only Half the Problem - NYT Unconventional Monetary Policies - The Irish Economy For Stock-Picking Advice, Don’t Ask an Economist - Greg Mankiw The Week Ahead: Ready for Some Fedspeak? -...
Bernanke, Economic Prospects for the Long Run
Speech at the Bard College at Simon's Rock, Great Barrington,...
Speculation Of A Nexus Q Replacement Swirls After An Unannounced Google Media Streamer Hits The FCC
Google is prepping… something. An announced Google media streamer was recently found in the FCC’s testing database. Details are nearly nonexistent as most are held under a confidentiality agreement for the next 45 days. However, the...
Restaurants Fear Proposed Stricter Drunk Driving Laws
CNBC Imagine having a drink with dinner at a restaurant only to be pulled over on the way home and slapped with a DUI. That could happen under a proposed plan to toughen the drunk driving laws across the country, and it has restaurateurs alarmed. The...
Is DirecTV Buying Hulu Soon?
Satellite TV provider DirecTV reportedly is considering buying streaming video service Hulu, which would strip away some or all ownership from Comcast Corporation, News Corporation and Walt Disney Company. A similar scenario took place two years ago when...
Higher-Ups Knew of IRS Case
An IRS watchdog said he informed Obama administration officials last June that a probe was under way over the agency's targeting of conservative...
Links for 05-18-2013
Too Much Talk About Liquidity - Paul Krugman The Real Scandal and Systemic Abuse of Power - Robert Reich What's the Variance of a Sample Variance? - Dave Giles What Rational Really Means - Scientific American A Defense of the Financial Sector...
Where are the Financial Geniuses?
Research Affiliates says firms seeking to find patterns of mispricing must encourage the critical evaluation of nonconformist...
SAC Capital Tells Investors It's Done Playing Nice With The Government
In a letter to investors, SAC Capital said that it would no longer cooperate with the government unconditionally regarding an ongoing investigation into its trading activity, says the NYT. In short — Steve Cohen's firm is done playing nice...
Spanish Banker Goes to Prison
Miguel Blesa, the former executive chairman of Caja Madrid, is accused of leaving his bank saddled with huge losses because of the takeover of a bank based in...
Jamie Dimon needs a boss
Jamie Dimon is wagging his finger from newstands across America this week, above the kind of headline his PR team can only dream of: “DIMON IS FOREVER: Why Jamie Dimon is Wall Street’s Indispensable Man”. The story itself,...
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TODAY'S recommended economics writing:• No benefit to financial stability from tighter policy (Real Time Economics)• A recovery for the rest of us (Modeled Behavior)• The persistent supply-side constraints in US housing...
Facebook Inc (FB) News: 10% of Users are Not Human, Apps for Google Inc (GOOG) Glass, Mobile Earnings & More
Facebook’s First Year Post-IPO: the Most Important Thing It Did (CNBC.com) One year later, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) has figured out mobile, experts say. The social networking giant may have had a rough patch after its IPO, but Facebook has...
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Bernanke Tells It The Way He Wants It To Be
Fed chairman Ben Bernanke is living proof that delusional optimism is always possible if the person in question restricts their view to exclude any and all inconvenient considerations which contradict that view. Bernanke made the case for a Happy Future...
Steve Cohen Only Has To Make It Through The End Of July
Folks are wondering if the government is going to get billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Cohen. The New York Times' Ben Protess and Peter Lattman reported that Cohen received a subpoena last week to testify before a grand jury in an...
The two Europes, in one chart
The euro zone economy is a mess. Here’s the clearest expression of that conclusion we have seen, from an excellent Gavyn Davies piece in the Financial Times Source: Financial Times It shows that in “core” non-stressed euro...
Hot Links: Don’t tell anyone
Stuff I'm Reading this Morning... Gold and silver in "liquidation mode" (BusinessInsider) Seth Masters: The Dow is still going to 20,000 and I'll accept your apologies now. (MoneyBeat) Ed Yardeni: No hard landing in China...
Despite a disappointing report on April industrial production, the oil and gas sector is booming and reached a 40-year high
Today’s report from the Federal Reserve on industrial production in April was below expectations and generally disappointing, here’s how Bloomberg reported it: Industrial production declined in April by the most in eight months,...
Where are the Financial Geniuses?
Research Affiliates says firms seeking to find patterns of mispricing must encourage the critical evaluation of nonconformist...
Apple: Susquehanna Starts at Hold; Larger-Screen iPhone Key
Shares of Apple (AAPL) closed down $15.01, or 3.4%, at $428.85, pressured by news of some funds dumping the stock, as the Barron’s Focus on Funds blog reported. The stock this afternoon got an initiation of coverage from Suquehanna Financial...
Of stereotypes and the slow end of the European affair
Some charts from Pew’s latest survey of 8,000 people across eight EU countries, most of whom are increasingly *insert euphamism* with Europe: Continue reading: Of stereotypes and the slow end of the European...
Air Force Expects iPad Deployment to Save $50 Million Over 10 Years
The U.S. Air Force is expecting to save a serious amount of cash as a result of deploying 18,000 iPads. With the iPads brought in to replace heavy, paper-bound flight manuals, a spokesman for the Air Force's Air Mobility Command has said that the...
Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ): Will the Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI)’s Pause Refresh Bullish Investors?
Today’s news from the financial markets was mixed regarding the U.S. economic outlook, with rising confidence levels from homebuilders inching closer to outright optimism. Moreover, prices at the wholesale level posted another sharp drop in...
Jon Jacobson's Sohn Conference Presentation: Short Digital Realty Trust (DLR)
We're posting up notes from the Ira Sohn Conference 2013 in New York. Next up is a summary of the presentation from Jonathon Jacobson of Highfields Capital. He presented "The Illusion of Yield." His pitched...
It's About To Get Very Busy In The US
US stock markets closed at all-time highs yesterday and futures are currently pointing to a positive open. We're about to get a ton of data that could quickly change the momentum of this market. Here's a preview of upcoming events courtesy of...
Final Ultrawonky Stat Geek Analysis of the Oregon Medicaid Study
If you really want to understand the shortcomings of the Oregon Medicaid study, you should be reading Austin Frakt and Aaron Carroll over at The Incidental Economist. Frakt has one final post today in which he goes ultrawonky and calculates just how...
Our improving short-term budget picture
You will find summaries here from Annie Lowrey and also Ezra Klein. I like Ross Douthat’s remarks: …almost nobody is willing to break out the champagne on these estimates. The Keynesians think our shrinking deficit is a sign of...
Samsung's New 13-Inch Display Has a Crazy 3,200 x 1,800 Pixel Resolution
Samsung will be displaying some of its latest and greatest notebook and tablet screens at the Society for Information Display's Display Week 2013. Among them, one stands out: a 13.3-inch notebook display with a 3,200x1,800 (WQXGA+) pixel...
Can Wal-Mart’s Solo Bangladesh Plan Be Effective?
After waiting with bated breath to see if Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) would sign the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, the U.S. retail giant announced Tuesday that it would instead be devising its own plan, as reported by The Wall...
Google opens its Cloud Platform Compute Engine to all comers, updates App Engine
During Google's I/O developer's conference keynote, it actually slipped in quite a bit of, yes, developer news amongst all the noisy consumer launches. One biggie was the announcement that any and all companies looking for computing...
Hot Links: Bubbles and Breakouts
Stuff I'm Reading this Morning... Gold plunging yet again on massive increase in stimulus, money printing around the world. Wait a minute... (BusinessInsider) Is the US dollar about to stage a major breakout? Is the market ready for this?...
Avoid Over-Reacting to Trending News by Knowing Your Stocks
I have a saying that when there is no news, the market reveals its true direction. That applies to individual securities as well as the market as a whole. Why? Think of institutional traders, who drive much of the market. They are so big...
Economists: Fed Will Taper Bond Purchases This Year
More than half of the 49 economists who participated in the latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey believe the Federal Reserve will begin to reduce its monthly bond purchases by the end of the...