The History of the Internet (Animated Infographics)
By Barry Ritholtz - January 10th, 2009, 3:00PM
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. —John Kenneth Galbraith
Macro Notes
US$ rally continuesPeter Boockvar
Asian currencies continue to sell off vs the $ on the heels of the news yesterday that South Korea said they will look into hot money inflows stemming from the $ carry trade and the Bank of Indonesia said they are looking into the foreign buying of bills. This follows the news a few weeks ago that Taiwan was limiting foreign deposit holdings and Brazil was taxing foreign inflow transactions. As I mentioned yesterday, we may have reached a short term pain threshold in terms of $ weakness and foreign countries are fighting back as they certainly won't wait for...
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January 10th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Loved the graphics. But for ‘history’ this seems a bit too loose: too Euro-focused, too vague about dates and specific contributions. For example, they seem to claim that somehow the French and English contributions were equal to that of DARPA/ARPANET. My understanding (admittedly 3rd hand) was dramatically different. I’d like to hear if someone out there has a reference book or url that they feel has a more detailed history and chronology.