Morning Reads
By Barry Ritholtz - March 28th, 2011, 9:00AM
This is what I read to prep for the Bloomberg guest hosting gig today:
• 140 top Twitter(ers) to follow (Time)
• What hedge fund managers know about making money (Marketwatch)
Meet five powerful players who move the global investment markets• Stocks Shining as Bonds Lose Luster (WSJ)
• UK House prices down in most regions but London higher, says Land Registry (BBC) See also Mortgage Servicers Resist But Cut Debts (WSJ)
• Tsunami Wall of Water Risk Well Known to Engineers, Regulators (Bloomberg)
• Eminem Lawsuit May Raise Pay for Older Artists (NYT)
• Patent Overhaul Gets Close, Draws Opposition (WSJ)
• New website: Lemonade: Detroit (“If not cars, then what?”) Exploring the “then what.”
That’s what has been coloring my morning . . .
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March 28th, 2011 at 9:32 am
speaking of ‘color’, and ~Exploring the “then what.”…
http://cryptogon.com/?p=21463
maybe, We, too, should ‘remember’ ..
March 28th, 2011 at 9:56 am
Your link to
Tsunami Wall of Water Risk Well Known to Engineers, Regulators (Bloomberg)
should be
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-25/tsunami-risk-well-known-to-nuclear-engineers-regulators-who-failed-to-act.html
March 28th, 2011 at 10:01 am
Nice job on Bloomberg.
Tom Keene and Ken Prewitt rule. They invariably offer ‘actionable’ information, not cock fights and ideological rants.
These days I listen live on the net to Bloomberg and put CNBC on the DVR. It usually takes about 30 minutes at midday to collect any useful info from Squawk/SOTS. CNBC seems to be improving but they’re still oriented toward manufactured conflict instead of utility.
The only question I have is why Bloomberg doesn’t sell the advertising inserts instead of filling space with (the same handful of) PSAs and promos. Seems like money left on the table.
March 28th, 2011 at 10:12 am
Can someone please help me? I wanted to contact Barry over general inquiry, but the contact email listed on this site, , is not working. I got this reply “The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ”
Does anyone know an updated email address I can use?
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EDITOR: Sounds you like you sent something you shouldn’t that was marked as spam, and then banned from the servers. Can you tell me what this was in reference to?
March 28th, 2011 at 10:44 am
This was the body of the email: “Good day, Barry
I am writing to ask if I could become a guest author on your blog? If so, I will be happy to send you more details on my background and what sort of articles I could contribute.
Best,
George”
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Editor: Yeah, we get 100 of those a week. You are toast as far as BR is concerned
March 28th, 2011 at 11:21 am
Thanks for the clarification.
March 28th, 2011 at 3:33 pm
Bleak history lessons for Libya’s future
http://www.ft.com/intl/comment
Richard Haass is showing up on every media outlet possible to talk about Libya. Allow me to summarize his argument:
Gaddafi will not kill the people who led the revolt against him, in spite of saying he will
It’s difficult and expensive to change 40 years of dictatorship
We’re still there after a week
Gaddifi may stop killing people trying to overthrow him now (Yeah a repeat)
Civil wars never “just stop”
Maybe something else may work
It’s too complicated
Sounds like this “genuis” was perfect for the Bush administration, but the Council on Foreign Relations? I thought better of them.
March 28th, 2011 at 10:58 pm
Automation, unemployment, capital spending and the future
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-27/companies-accelerating-equipment-spending-with-productivity-bypassing-jobs.html
A new normal IMHO will mean continued unemployment, more and more use of automation. What does this mean to society, I don’t know but my suspicion is that it isn’t good.
March 29th, 2011 at 5:54 am
Diplomats Meet in London to Ponder Libya’s Future
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/world/africa/30libya.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
No world government!
…in fact, get government off my back! You can have pencil-necked bureaucrats deciding whether you can have a couple dozen children or curtail you right to bear arms, but not me. And do NOT criticize your leader during a time of war. I will cut your pension, lower taxes for the (one family who’s) rich, and you can educate your children however you want, but not on the government’s nickle!!!
– Moammar Quadaffi