May 20, 2013

TBP Conference is Today!


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  October 10, 2012 from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM (EDT) Today is the big day! You can stream the conference all day from your computer. (Details are here). Bloomberg Radio will be broadcasting from the event, you can listen hear after 10am. Fora.TV will have a all the videos from this year’s conference available [...]

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Apple’s Maps Made Me A Record Setting Half-Marathoner


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Move Over Paul Ryan: Thanks to my upgrading my iPhone 4 to IO6, Runkeeper no longer uses Google Maps — it uses Apple maps. So my usual 2 mile 25 minute walk became a record setting half-marathon.  

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10 Tuesday PM Reads


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My afternoon train reading: • Bear market may begin Tuesday (Market Watch) • How Much Trust Should We Have in Economic Data? (The Fiscal Times) see also Total warns over ‘inaccurate’ benchmarks (FT.com) • Who are the Five Best Financial Bloggers? (The Reformed Broker) • Speed Kills: How Superfast Trading Hurts Small Caps (CFO) • [...]

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QOTD: What Do You Call a Stock Down 90%?


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I love this joke/quote from David Einhorn:   “What do you call a stock that’s down 90%? A stock that was down 80% and then got cut in half.”   Remember that the next time someone exhorts you to buy a stock because it has gotten shellacked . . . Hat tip Josh

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10 Tuesday AM Reads


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My morning reads: • The rial-ity of Persia-stroika (Alphaville) • In Vanguard, Schwab fee war, investors win (Market Watch) see also ‘Plain English’ on 401(k) Fees Often Reads More Like Gibberish (WSJ) • What Are Your Portfolio’s Biases? (Yahoo Finance) • Tactical Asset Allocation for Dummies (Turnkey Analyst) see also Dividends Soar 19.5% in Q3 [...]

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