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FinancialTimes' ftalphaville. Instant trends, market moves, as seen from the City outside the USA.
Housingwire is a lively news source for the mortgage and residential real estate industries.
urbandigs tracks real estate in NY -- more aimed at investors than at consumers.
The Implode-O-Meter is the brainchild of Aaron Krowne, a former researcher
at Emory University in Atlanta. A computer scientist and mathematician,
Mr. Krowne, 28, started the site in 2007, believing that the troubles in the
housing market, and by extension the mortgage industry, would worsen.
He was right -- and the Implode-O-Meter took off. Traffic on the site soared,
reaching as many as 100,000 regular visitors, and advertising dollars rolled in.
Mr. Krowne quit his day job and hired 10 people for his company, Implode-Explode Heavy Industries.
"The crisis has come in waves," Mr. Krowne said. "It just keeps coming."
Business: Loan Pains Turned Site Into a Hit
By LOUISE STORY
Published: July 8, 2008
The Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter, a Web site, is gleefully tallying the
number of lenders that run into trouble.
What do you want out of law school ? Lawyers !
When do we want them ? Now !
A more refective take on the attorney factory.
[Via lawandletters]
Several comments have criticized Krugman for shifting his position,
but I think what has shifted is the second part. He still knows all the
models, and the models he prefers still work as well as ever. But as
for guessing which applies right now in the face of insufficient
information, all he can do is place a wager. It might be better than
most non-economists can do, but it might not be that much better,
and it might be worse than some people can do out of just happening
to have the right kind of intuition for the current situation--or simply
holding doggedly to the same single bullet theory until it finally
happens.
From Krugman Was An Economist
Update 2007 Sept: What's not to like about Paul Krugman.
unfogged, guilty pleasure group blog. Example musing and pointer
(The main problem with modeling is that any complex model
encapsulates dozens or hundreds of the modelers’ assumptions,
none of which are necessarily wrong, but many of which could
be interpreted differently by reasonable people at the next
meeting.) and erudite salaciousness in a quest for comity.
Digital Money Forum keeps on top of electronic payments.
Example: ATM anniversary.
ibankingoasis hobnobs with the junior monkeys of investment banking.
Example: their life in NY.
Gary Weiss' Investment muckracking.
Example: Ticks in naked shorts.
banktechnews about payment, transactions and settlements.
Blocking ACH Fraud and debit filters
paymentsnews, example of mobile-phone based transactions.
Excellent design.
Autolog has cleaned up its design, and keeps posting
about twice an hour.
Notable: Relaunch and companion Autoblog Green lusts after
the new MINI Cooper D.
Previously: Autoblog enjoyed the MINI back in 2004, too.
Credit Derivatives: Where’s the Risk ?
CDO implosion coming, by nakedshorts.
Fortuito.us webtastic web evangelism by metafilter guy
Reasonable JulianSanchez notes the prophecy of Max Headroom,
Fast Lane Daily portal of driving and automotive blogs.
Division of Labour econ blog finds Milton Friedman week,
with market conservative leanings.
AllAboutAlpha, example:
value premium, value pricing.
return = alpha + beta * (market return)
FX: US$ vs Euro, US$ collapsed 2002-2005.
Noted by Bond Dad.
Information Arbitrage / Roger Ehrenberg
Examples: Why make content that others monetize ?
The socialist realm of user-generated content.
Wall Street Compensation: A Flexible Model for a Changing World.
allaboutalpha, another investment and finance strategy journal
where Alpha Male opines about portabe alpha.
Michael Covel, turtle investor.
Watch out for scams.
financialrounds, an east coast finance
Professor.
Example: Scams.
Carnival of real estate
Best of Real Estate this week.
Mortgage Bankers have an association; news on refinancing, prepayment,
orginations, servicing, delinquency, foreclosures, MBS, ABS, securitization.
More like this: mortgage.
Random Rodger Nusbaum investment strategy.
Example: Get some exposure to foreign ETFs.
Andy Kessler telcom investing.
Skype (SkypeOut), Vonage E.g.s, Philly WiFi battles Verizon
and Silicon Valley history.
Also in the NYT.
Curbed and Property Shark team for NY Property Map theme of the week at Shark Bites.
Capital Spectator on money, interest rates, and hedging the economy:
Examples: TIPS (inflation-indexed Treasury,10-year TIPS), market
watching fed funds.
Tickersense monitors the stock market and trendspots:
first day of the month, GoogleTrends.
sf.metblogs, the thinking man's sFist.
Example: film fest.
Jeff Mathews is not Making this up: Example:
criminal defence in the name of Jesus.
Chicago Law faculty finds a link between executive compensation,
performance, governance and tax law.
The purported goal of section 162(m) of the IRC (the provision
that limits deductibility) was to reduce total amounts of
executive compensation.
The problem cases involve the managers deceiving the board,
not the company deceiving the government.
Deflate real-estate hype. Update twice per shift. Former magazine
editor Lockhart Steele mocks overpriced condo listings and the
language brokers use to pump up and pimp out properties.
PriceChopper highlights grossly overpriced apartments and
takes credit when the asking price drops.
BubbleWatch links to optimistic market forecasts. Curbed's major
feature drawback is its New York-centric coverage and its
obsession with celebrity and luxury properties. Occasional
ganders at Los Angeles and Boston.
Bankers' Ball, banking life, with CFA follies.
Trader Feed opines on trading strategy and psychology.
By author of Psychology of Trading (Wiley, 2003) using
historical patterns in markets, Brett Steenbarger.
EX: feeling momentum.
Random Roger invests his portfolio,
and explains how, in the WSJ.
THE QUANT by Richard Booth: about the intersections of law, business, finance,
economics, and statistics. A law Professor.
Home buying reasons vary by generation and that open
houses are now on iPod video.
-- Matrix at Miller Samuel.
Visual thinking and marketing by Xplane.
Charmingly illustrated technology and business process graphics
remind me of Richard Scary's Busyown.
Subtraction by NYT designerism and ia by Khoi Vinh.
Wall Street Folly: clipping service for the aspiring beta banker.
Bull Moose aka Marshall Wittman is a fair handed Democrat.
Corporate merger, acquisitions, and take-overs: The Deal offers a
NY-centric view. See also Deal Breaker and Deal Book.
Club for Growth is pro growth and proud of it.
Greg Mankiw opines economically, mostly on current events, for
the benefit of his undergraduate Economics class.
Under the Counter tracks who's who in investing.
Tim Worstall's Obvious or Trivial Except ... examines the
political economy of Paul Krugman.
Generation X at 40 attracts civil thoughtful comments.
How Canadian.
Highlights: Friday chat.
Down with pervasive remote-sensing automated computerized
biometric surveillance - Up With Hats !
Evan Williams, blogging and podcast (Odeo) pioneer.
Catallarchy -- praxiology for the masses: example.
Real estate sentiment and appraisal of the New York market at
Miller Samuel's Soapbox. [*]
2005 Dec: Promoted to blogroll2.
Dave Cross, London based perl guy, has long been in my pingoshere.
Picks up on techs trends, not ASAP, but as they start crossing the
chasm. And summarizes them.
Also a fierce advocate for good customer service, with
emphasis on forthcoming non-deceitfulness over pampering.
And lefty local pantser.
Update 2006 Mar 01: Now on OnLamp.