As each hour passes it becomes clearer why Eric Daniels has been fighting so hard all week to cling on to his black horse....

Hold the front page! The printing presses are rolling and will not stop any time soon. The Age of Quantitative Easing has begun in Britain, and true to our swashbuckling past, it’s the real thing. Fiddlesticks to purchasing assets by issuing gilt-edged bonds that add to the National Debt. That...

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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...

> Excellent commentary about FusionIQ in this weekend’s Barron’s: Separating potential winners — and losers — from the herd. MARKETS LIKE THIS DEMAND A CLOSER LOOK before you leap. Fortunately, there are plenty of online resources to guide you. Some are oriented toward fun...

MIT’s Andrew Lo: The key concept here, developed by MIT professor and noted hedge-fund theorist Andrew Lo, is “serial correlation.” Simply put, serial correlation is the degree to which each month’s returns in a fund mirror the results of the month before. A fund that returns...

One of the strange aspects of running a quant shop is watching some of the fundie guys downgrade previously beloved names long after they have been spanked. Let’s cherry pick a few charts and work our way through them. We’ve noticed this with GM, AIG, and many others recently. Today̵...

A hollow-pointed syringe must be inserted through the breastplate and into the heart, whereupon a sample of the cardiac humour (variously called “heartsblood,” “fool’s red,” “Bad Axe”) may be drawn out. If the heart has escaped and will not be called back, humou...

Longtime readers of mine -- going back to the email days 10 years ago -- will note that at various times I have been bullish or bearish (or both, depending upon different sectors). Regardless of our investment posture, there is always a good faith effort to maintain an analytical rigor and intellect...