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Men have endlessly enjoyed making nasty remarks about women’s hormonal cycles. But a recently published study concludes that male traders are to blame for stock market bubbles and their subsequent crashes. The findings published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences recommend that “you could stabilize financial markets by hiring more women and older…
Farmers complain that when rich countries keep food prices low with farm subsidies they shut out the possibilities for poor countries to develop their farming industries. At thepanelist.net, blogger Jean Roberts complains that high food prices hurt the poor.
In March 2008, The New York Times reported an inexplicable and disturbing variation between actual prices and commodity pricing in some commonly traded crops like corn, soybeans and wheat.
Zubin Jelveh at Portfolio.com combines research on the disadvantages of testosterone in traders. He goes as far as to suggest that traders take female hormones to become better risk managers. It looks like he’s never been a trader. I, for one, can attest to all the disadvantages of testosterone in my life. Premature baldness, extreme…
The New York Times has the best CEO compensation viewing tool ever. This is the best way to see how bloated the pay package of the U.S. company CEOs is. My favorite CEO on the list is John Thain for managing to negotiate Merrill Lynch (MER – $42.60) shareholders out of $83 million for doing…
On April 9, 450 of the 500 employees at the Point Beach nuclear power plant – owned by FPL Energy of Florida and located in Two Rivers, Michigan – were evacuated because a store clerk misinterpreted a sound bite.
"Since our last meeting, there have been at times sharp fluctuations in major currencies, and we are concerned about their possible implications for economic and financial stability," says the statement from this weekend’s G7 meeting. It was the first time since the Prague meeting of 2000 that the G7 have united to voice explicit concern…
How hunger could topple regimes. “When the history of the global banking crisis is finally written, the failure of the European Central Bank to prepare the ground for rate cuts in early 2008 will rank as a policy blunder of the first order,” says Damian Reece at The Telegraph. The recession may not be as…
Photo:HRC, Creative Commons, Flickr The Ghawar Oil Field, located in Saudi Arabia, is the world’s largest known oil field at approximately 170 billion barrels. Arctic Ocean reserves may be more than twice as large.
Photo:Panorama, Creative Commons, Flickr One of the challenges faced by Big Oil is finding new oil reserves in countries that are not hostile to US concerns.
Some call it the Father of Waters. Others have called it The Big Muddy.
Are private-equity firms calling the end of the credit crunch? Lewis Black Mocks Media, Celeb Endorsements. Extending your own life expectancy is the most selfish motive imaginable for doing anything, says Michael Kinsley at the New Yorker. The U.K. needs to rethink its ‘romantic’ energy policy or face disaster, says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard at The Telegraph.…
Presidential candidate John McCain (R-AZ) is a Vietnam veteran who spent 5 1/2 years in a prisoner-of-war camp in Vietnam after refusing an out-of-sequence repatriation offer, which was extended because his father was Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Command (CINCPAC) of all Vietnamese forces.
A survey shows that middle-class Americans are increasingly downbeat about their short-term economic progress. Don’t forget to read Ben Bernanke’s (fake) blog: Paul Volcker is an enemy of the U.S. economy. Do happiness and economic growth rise and fall together? This is one of the reasons why I will apply for U.S. citizenship if Barack…
Nanoscience could help Big Oil to increase production.
As an 8-year-old veteran of Capitol Hill and the Capitol itself, the wife of Bill Clinton (42nd president of the United States) is a power in her own right.
Photo:Miguel A. Lopes, Creative Commons, Flickr Felix from New York asks in a comment about my March 2008 top holdings, “What a lot of oil! Is this list in any way shape or form socially responsible?”
The best of the web… Have you had enough of doom and gloom yet? Now for a bit of optimism… Some interesting thoughts on the shape of a (possible) U.S. recession. Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism rips into former Fed Chairman Greenspan. "When Richard Nixon tried to rehabilitate his reputation, he didn’t dispute the horrific…
SRI stands for socially responsible investing. Whether you invest money in stocks or time and energy, your investment should make sense from both a financial and a sustainability standpoint.
Watch the video: Risk management group SBCC says writedowns at banks from the subprime crisis could total $500 billion dollars, double what has already been reported. Tanya Beder, speaking at the 2008 Reuters Hedge Fund and Private Equity Summit in New York on Monday, says the fallout from the mortgage meltdown may become more clear…
Photo:trackrecord, Creative Commons, Flickr Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has become extremely concerned that his legacy is being tarnished by the loud chorus of critics who blame him for engineering the housing bubble. After being criticized by several economists for his March 17 op-ed piece in the Financial Times, Greenspan was back Monday morning,…
When I started on Wall Street most things were still traded this way. I was trading Emerging Market Bonds over the phone and never used these signals except across a crowded loud room, and even then I mostly got them wrong. I usually had to resort to a phone call. However, over time, some things…
So Yahoo (YHOO – $27.82), calls out Microsft (MSFT – $29.30) and details responses to their fight over Yahoo’s online brand, assets and people. Larry Dignan at ZDNet does a fantastic job of ironically translating the letter from Yahoo to Microsoft. What does this all mean? Yahoo is willing to have a proxy fight and…
ENN, the Environmental News Network, recently announced that Dell (DELL – $19.53), the world’s largest mail-order computer vendor and maker of the infinitely adaptable Dell PC and laptop computers, was running its 2.1-million square foot Round Rock facility entirely on renewable energy.
It was refreshing to read Anatole Kaletsky’s contrarian piece in Sunday’s London Times, and it should be required reading for all investors. "I am probably the only economist left in the world who still believes that a U.S. recession is likely to be avoided," says Kaletsky. Given the massive amount of doom and gloom in…