The Law of Unintended Consequences March 6, 2009 By John Mauldin Unintended Consequences The I-Factor Rating Agencies Gone Wild Knights to the Rescue ~~~ Rules have consequences. And sometimes they have unintended consequences. If I told you that the US government was going to give multiple tens of ...

Buy and Hope Investing February 27, 2009 By John Mauldin More About the Long Run Stocks for the REALLY Long Run If You Don’t Like the Numbers, Then Change Them Buy and Hope A Few Thoughts on Taxes and Budgets Nouriel Roubini, Yahoo Tech Ticker, and Me New York, Las Vegas, and La Jolla ~~~~ Thi...

When I sit down each week to write, I essentially do what I did nine years ago when I started writing this letter. I write to you, as an individual. I don’t think of a large group of people, just a simple letter to a friend. It is only half a joke that this letter is written to my one million ...

February 13, 2009 By John Mauldin Time for a Reality Check World Trade Is Falling Off a Cliff European Bank Losses Dwarf Those in the US Geithner: “You Can’t Handle the Truth” Earnings Will Get Even Worse Orlando, Colorado Springs, New York, and Las Vegas ~~~~ It is not just the US...

Trading With the Big Boys January 30, 2009 By John Mauldin This week we are going to do something a little different. I am in Bermuda taking a little weekend R&R after a speech, as well as working on my book. There is not the time for the usual letter this week, but I have asked Barry Ritholtz t...

Warning: long and geeky post follows — iPhone wanna-be developers, read on! I’ve found it, finally, the best iPhone development book so far! Read on to see why. Fairly recently, I decided to turn my attention to native iPhone application development, but I found the arena a little sparse...

In this installment of 10 Questions for . . . , Senior Editor Daniel DiClerico speaks with Tyler Jones, president of Blue Heron Development, which built the New American Home 2009 at the International Builders' Show in Las Vegas. Here, Jones talks about the project's biggest innovations, off...

Although the weather outside the Las Vegas Convention Center has been warm and sunny, the current economic crisis has cast a dark shadow over the 2009 International Builders' Show. From what I've seen and heard so far, show attendance is noticeably down from recent years, and there appear to...

Die New York Times veröffentlichte jüngst einen aufschlussreichen Einführungartikel zu R, der Programmierumgebung für statistische Berechnungen, die auch am IBI benutzt und gelehrt wird. R is also the name of a popular programming language used by a growing number of data analysts inside corpora...

Now that the semester is coming to an end, and consequently, History, I thought that I should do some reflection. IB History is a terribly tricky course; teachers expect you to know everything that you read, see or hear about.  For example, your history teacher may give you a 50-page handout, and e...