Outlook

Horace Dediu at Asymco released this terrific graph showing "a brief history of personal computing platforms."

The top performing ETF on the entire list was the 20-Year+ Treasury ETF (TLT) with a gain of 28.82% in 2011.

The Wall Street Journal's 4-part film on how Europe has arrived at the brink of financial collapse, the major macroeconomic event impacting markets at the start of 2012.

This strategy has outperformed the rest of the Dow by about 15% in 2011.

Profit margins are at almost disturbingly high levels but without some revenue growth and investment, it's meaningless.

Munroe runs xkcd, a webcomic that typically stars stick-figures talking about technology, science and relationships. In today's edition Munroe presents a

A lesson from Jake and the house he can no longer afford.

Whitney Tilson ran out of ammo on his African safari.

In a rare public appearance by Eddie Lampert, the famed hedge fund manager clashes with Larry Summers over the value of long-term investing and thinking.

The Fed Chairman hasn't been sleeping - he tells his psychiatrist why.

Lewis finds at the heart of the economic crisis nothing less than a moral and intellectual breakdown from the very beacons of western civilization.