At Business Insider, Joe Weisenthal published an remarkable graphic originally from Stifel Nicolaus. It shows equities and commodities over the last 140 years and presents a strong bullish signal for equities – at least by this measure: Source: “A Big, Beautiful, and Bullish 140-Year Look at Equities Vs. Commodities” Joe […]
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Just had to have that bleeding edge PowerBook G3 in 1997? Well, if you had plunked down the $5,700 it ran you on Apple stock instead of the Apple laptop (with its massive 5GB hard drive), that stock would be worth over $330,000 today. Kyle Conroy put together this chart […]
Zack Miller is the Managing Director of Lighthouse Capital Ltd., a boutique investment firm servicing high-net-worth investors from around the world and the author of the book Tradestreaming, which documents how investors are using new technologies to assist their investing. In this post, he highlights five companies developing new services that […]
From Big Think, Prof. Lionel Jensen of Notre Dame addresses the claim that Chinese currency manipulation is at the heart of America’s fiscal woes:
The Atlantic has a great interactive infographic that groups America into twelve different “states” based on economic similarities among different counties. Click through to view it: Source: “Map: The 12 States of America” The Atlantic, 3/8/11. http://www.theatlantic.com/misc/the-12-states-of-america/
VisualizingEconomics has a great chart today, showing this recession’s effect on inflation-adjusted GDP per capita for Americans, versus its long (138 year!) trend line. Click for larger version: Source: “Long-term real growth in US GDP per capita 1871-2009” Catherine. VisualizingEconomics, 3/8/11. http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2011/03/08/long-term-real-growth-in-us-gdp-per-capita-1871-2009/
A fascinating report today from CNBC’s Kate Kelly on how farmers in the Midwest are using Twitter to update each other about crops: Once a convenient outlet for boredom on the tractor, tweeting with fellow farmers has become a way for the participants in a far-flung and isolating business to […]
Economist Michael Spence won the Nobel Prize for his theory of signaling. In this short video from Big Think, he explains how it’s applicable to someone trying to win over a love interest:
Exchange traded funds (ETFs) have surged in popularity in large part due to the low fees they promise for access to investable indexes. But many ETF investors pay much higher fees than what’s apparent from the advertised expense ratio, finds Paul Amery of IndexUniverse (“Beyond the Expense Ratio” Yahoo Finance, […]
Have you ever been in a buying situation where you think in principle the merchant should be wide open to haggling, but then they pull out some piece of Objective Information (eg. a nicely formatted and laminated price sheet) that has the effect of anchoring the price in their favor? […]
Billshrink put together this nifty infographic: punch in your year of birth and see how much it cost at that time for some basic American consumer commodities: