Archive for November, 2010

• Tuesday links: information risk
  abnormalreturns, November 30th, 2010 at 1:38 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day “Information has gone from being illuminating to being a source of risk, and not because of content, but because of the [...]

• Tuesday screencast: dollar doubters
  abnormalreturns, November 30th, 2010 at 1:28 pm, Comments: 0

  There are a number of arguments why the US dollar may be in secular decline.  However a strongly held, long term thesis can work against [...]

• An unlikely coincidence
  abnormalreturns, November 30th, 2010 at 12:26 pm, Comments: 0

  Mark Perry at Carpe Diem notes the continued rise in traffic volume.  He writes: The sustained and ongoing improvements in vehicle miles since the summer [...]

• Monday links: a rare beast
  abnormalreturns, November 29th, 2010 at 1:37 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day James Surowiecki, “This huge uproar might make you think that QE2 represents some radical shift in the Fed’s mission. It doesn’t.”  [...]

• Monday screencast: complexity and volatility
  abnormalreturns, November 29th, 2010 at 1:25 pm, Comments: 0

  Complexity is oftentimes the enemy of investors and traders.  Whether it relates to the methodology used or the vehicles traded it seems that the more [...]

• Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns
  abnormalreturns, November 28th, 2010 at 10:25 am, Comments: 0

  Thanks for checking in with us this weekend.  Here are the items our readers clicked most frequently on  Abnormal Returns for the week ended Saturday, [...]

• Sunday links: bright lines
  abnormalreturns, November 28th, 2010 at 7:19 am, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Dan Ariely, “The best advice on gift-giving, therefore, is to get something that someone really wants but would feel guilty buying [...]

• Saturday links: models and theories
  abnormalreturns, November 27th, 2010 at 9:39 am, Comments: 0

  Thanks for checking out another edition in our ongoing experiment in long form curation. As always we welcome your feedback.  Items with a * appeared [...]

• Friday links: Black Friday frenzy
  abnormalreturns, November 25th, 2010 at 9:24 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Floyd Norris, “So far this year, both gold and stocks are up. That combination is unlikely to last out the current [...]

• Wednesday links: channel checks
  abnormalreturns, November 24th, 2010 at 1:43 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Justin Fox, “The corporate profit picture would seem to mirror what’s been going on in the income distribution for individuals for [...]