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(March 5, 2008 01:36 PM, by Bryan Caplan) Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons and Dragons and the father of the thousands of role-playing games it spawned, has died…….
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5 March, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 21:36

Top 10 Most Searched Stocks on TheStreet.com, Mar. 5

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5 March, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) admin @ 21:32

Mercadolibre, An Earnings Jumping Bean (MELI)

MercadoLibre, Inc. (NASDAQ: MELI) posted quarterly revenue increased 73.9% to $26.9 million, with an operating income margin increase to 27.1%. It also reported income from operations of $7.3 million and a net income increase of 188% to $5.3 million. First Call had estimates pegged at $26.88 million for revenues. New confirmed registered users for the three-month period ended December 31, 2007 were 1.6 million. Total confirmed registered users increased to 24.9 million as of December 31, 2007, an increase of 37.1% over December 31, 2006. Its gross merchandise volume was $461.0 million in Q4-2007, up 40.2% from Q4-2006. Successful items…
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5 March, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 21:24

The 52-Week Low Club (FNM)(MYL)(PDLI)

Moneygram (MGI) Deal to buy company falls apart. Drops to $2.45 from 52-week high of $30.67. Universal American Financial (UAM) Cuts profit view for the year.Drops to $11.47 from 52-week high of $26.50. Fannie Mae (FNM) Down on debt sales news. Drops to $23.84 from 52-week high of $70.57. Mylan Labs (MYL) Weak outlook for upcoming period. Sells off to $10.67 from 52-week high of $22.90. PDL Biopharma (PDLI) Cutting large numbers of jobs and halting M&A. Falls to $10.36 from 52-week high of $27.98. UCBH Holdings (UCBH) Bank issues revision of loan-loss provisions taken during the fourth quarter. Sells…
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5 March, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 21:22

Harmonizing Global Regulations: Joe Knows

In a post a few months back, I offered a series of policy recommendations given what I had observed during the credit crisis:Is the financial system somewhat broken and in need of reform?
Absolutely. But is the increasingly liberalized system in place today
an essential element of a healthy, integrated and global financial
marketplace? I think the answer is also a resounding yes. So where have
things broken down, and what can we do to fix them? Here are some ideas:

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5 March, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 21:10

Nick Lachey Talks Hot Wheels and Cold, Hard Cash

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5 March, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) admin @ 21:01

Golden Era: Bernanke Edition

Gold, marker is date of Bernanke nomination as Fed Chairman

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5 March, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 20:51

Ambac Bailout Imminent! Maybe! Possibly!

So Ambac Financial Group has been halted pending “news,” which could be the long-awaited bailout that the market has been wishing and hoping for.

Ambac shares have been all over the map in the last month….
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5 March, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 20:47

How to lie with statistics

“How to Lie With Statistics” by Darrell Huff is a venerable book on the many ways we as end-users of statistics can be misled by “the numbers.” As participants in the capital markets we are bombarded with various statistics on a daily basis. From various governmental sources we receive data on the state of the economy. From companies we receive earnings report that purport to tell us how the firm is doing.
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5 March, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 20:40

Australia?s Trade Balance Deteriorates

Import demand remains strong thus far….
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5 March, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 20:30

Ambac Offering: Is That It?

Ambac Financial Group, the so-called monoline bond insurer which has operating under the shadow of a credit-rating downgrade that would likely wipe-out its business, announced plans to sell $1.5 billion of common stock and equity units to bolster its capital. The market promptly threw up all over the trading floor.

It’s a safe bet that Ambac has the offering fully subscribed at this point. If they didn’t have commitments from buyers they wouldn’t have given us the $1.5 billion figure. But the announcement fell short of the hopes and rumors that had become ubiquitous on Wall Street in the last two weeks. Reports had lead many to believe that Ambac would be receiving an immediate capital infusions from a consortium of banks. Instead we got a prospectus for a public offering. The market was looking for between $2 billion and $3 billion. It got one and half billion. It looks like the private equity money walked away from the deal, leaving Ambac short of market expectations.
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5 March, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 20:11

This Warehouse Is Better Than That One

And this is just the vestibule at a typical warehouse retailer. (Source: Paramount Pictures).

Perception is everything in the markets. So when warehouse retailers C…
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5 March, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 20:11

Allowing Customers to Friend You on MySpace and Facebook

Is your company on MySpace or Facebook?
Check out Blentec’s MySpace page to see how the small blender maker, famous for its viral Will It Blend videos, is bringing its online marketing together with social networking.
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5 March, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 20:05

Ben Bernanke on Paulson

The Twitter-ing Bernanke has this to say today about Henry Paulson’s House testimony this morning: benbernanke alright, paulson’s back to burning me up today. i need to put a bell on him, like a runaway cow. Ha!
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5 March, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 20:02

Jonah Goldberg’s Alternative Title

(March 5, 2008 11:56 AM, by Arnold Kling) He writes, the one thing libertarians grasp better than conservatives or liberals is the danger of the category error when……
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5 March, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 19:56

Credit Suisse Workers Encouraged To Seek Employment Elsewhere

A bunch of first years in Credit Suisse’s financial sponsors group—who supposedly haven’t yet received their bonuses—were told today it’d be in everyone’s best interest if they stopped showing up to the office, circa now. Not technically laid off (that actually would’ve been more humane, cause at least it would mean a few well-deserved weeks of sleeping late and self-pity), the options offered to the Little Dougans were a. Get a job somewhere else b. Work back office for Credit Suisse outside the U.S. Either way, they can kiss their ridiculously short walk to the Shake Shack good bye, unless of course they’re planning on going with option A, and putting resumes in at the new, year-round Shack on the Upper West Side, which is n…
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5 March, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 19:43

Service Sector Rebounds, But Still Contracting

The service sector is still contracting, but not as much as it was a month ago in the Institute for Supply Management’s nonmanufacturing index.
“We’re starting to see some leveling off and we’re not in this really fast fall,” said Anthony Nieves, the survey chair and senior vice president for supply management at H…
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5 March, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 19:18

CNBC Power Lunch Today at 1:20 EST

I’m on CNBC Power Lunch today at 1:20 EST. Talking tech stocks — Apple, Google, and Intel, specifically — so feel free to remind me here why things are completely other than what they seem on these tickers.
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5 March, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 19:15

Solar Companies Catch Some Rays

It’s another big day for solar-related stocks, buoyed today by a strong earnings report out of Canadian Solar, which exceeded expectations in its fourth quarter thanks to strong sales in Europe. The other names in the space are rallying today, but it’s been a tough year for this sector so far, after a fruitful 2007 that saw outstanding gains for the sector.
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5 March, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 18:58

Lifelock says Take Action

Since 2005, more than 230 million Americans have received notice that their personal information has gone missing.
Recently, Congress has taken some steps to provide consumers with basic safeguards to protect personal information and prevent identity theft; however, much more needs to be done. As consumers we need to be united in urging Congress to:
1. Establish stronger penalties for third party agencies that lose a consumer’s personal information
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5 March, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 18:57

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