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25
Aug

What Fat Ladies In Bikinis Taught Me About Investing

Posted by The Weakonomist in Wednesday, August 25th 2010   25 comments already   

I love the beach, and not just because it’s the beach.  You see, my wife and I are people watchers.  We watch, we judge, and we feel guilty about it (well, she might).  On a recent trip to the beach, I sat in my hat, sunglasses, under a canopy, and enough sunscreen to refract 2 [...]

under: investing, personal finance    
17
Aug

Weakon 155: History Of The Stock Exchange

Posted by The Weakonomist in Tuesday, August 17th 2010   2 comments already   

Wall Street has been the epicenter for the American and world economy for almost 100 years. Before that, it was London, and before that, Rome. Part of what has made thses places so important to the world economy is that they were centers of trade and then centers of finance. This is because businesses need [...]

under: business, college of weakonomics, investing    
9
Aug

Selling In May Was A Good Idea, Sell Again In September

Posted by The Weakonomist in Monday, August 9th 2010   1 comment so far   

Back in the beginning of May, I talked about an investment phenomenon that showed selling your stock holdings in May and then buying them back in November yielded better returns than just holding them through those months. Part of the reason is due to investors selling to go on vacation. They don’t want [...]

under: investing, personal finance    
30
Jul

Like Taking Risks? You Must Be Hungry

Posted by The Weakonomist in Friday, July 30th 2010   5 comments already   

It’s rare that I link to a CNBC story, but I don’t have much of a choice today. They’ve discussed the results of an interesting study the links hunger to our appetite for risk.
The study took 19 people and gave them options of greater risk/greater reward or reduced risk/reward. On separate occasions the 19 people [...]

under: investing, personal finance    
1
Jul

How IPOs Work: Tesla Motors

Posted by The Weakonomist in Thursday, July 1st 2010   3 comments already   

Not since Ford went public in the 1950s has an American automaker gone to the equity markets for an initial public offering (IPO). But, on Monday, Tesla Motors did just that. I thought Tesla, which now trades on the NASDAQ exchange under the ticker: TSLA, would be a great showpiece for how IPOs [...]

under: banking, business, cars, investing    
24
Jun

What Kind Of News Influences Stock Prices? Someone Has The Answer

Posted by The Weakonomist in Thursday, June 24th 2010   1 comment so far   

You’ve probably seen this before: A company announces some kind of bad news and the stock price tanks. This happened to CVS few days ago when Walgreens announced they were ending a partnership with CVS. The price of CVS stock dropped something like 10%. That was big news and it triggered [...]

under: investing    
21
Jun

The Top Twelve Things On My Mind

Posted by The Weakonomist in Monday, June 21st 2010   3 comments already   

This is basically a combination of things that are bothering me.  I would have probably written a post about them individually but instead decided to just throw them up here and move on to other topics.

I like the new iPhone plans, I’ll save money when I upgrade. But with media rich iAds coming to [...]

under: banking, business, economics, government, investing, jobs, lists, media, personal    
18
Jun

New Jersey’s Reputation

Posted by The Weakonomist in Friday, June 18th 2010   Leave a reply   

I don’t have anything against the state of New Jersey (click the link for an economic tour of the state).  I’m sure it’s a fine and beautiful place.  But why are these the two stories I’ve heard about the state in the past few days?
Jersey Politician Draws Total Disability Pay yet Runs Marathons
New Jersey Woman [...]

under: government, investing, links, tour of the country    
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