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What You Need To Know About AOL’s Huffington Post Acquisition
AOL is buying Internet News site Huffington Post for $315 million. Here's what you need to know about the deal and what it says about the tech world, investing and the economy. Mergers are tough Most mergers fail because the 'synergies'…
Gross: Central Banks are Robbing Bond Holders and Fuelling Inflation
In this segment on Bloomberg with Tom Keene just after the jobs report was released yesterday morning, Bill Gross continues hammering away at the central banks' easy money monetary policies, the main point of his last newsletter. His…
How To Reduce Government Budget Deficits
This is a wonkish post, but bear with me, because it's important. Randall Wray's last post sparked a thought regarding trade deficits and budget deficits which I wanted to run by you. Randy said: We see from the chart that the…
Unemployment rate drops to 9.0 as employment population data skew US jobs numbers
The U.S. jobs data this month is a bit screwy. I wanted to flag something I saw because I think it is significant. First, here is the headline. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported an addition to non-farm payrolls of 36,000…
Jon Stewart on the Mortgage Bankers Association Strategic Default
Hey if y'all can do it, so can we. (Hat tip Ryan Chittum)
What’s really happening with Bing ‘Cheating’ and Copying Google Search Results
Earlier this week Google disclosed that it had run a sting operation on its main search page which clearly ascertained that Bing, a competitor search engine by Microsoft, was using Google's search results to tweak its own search results.…
Thoughts on Commodity Prices and China’s Hydropower Push
Andy Lees of UBS's London-based Equity Derivatives group had an interesting post this morning on the push in China to maintain sufficient energy resources in order to maintain economic growth. He writes: Yesterday China gave the…
Bill Gross: Devil’s Bargain
Bill Gross is at it again. The bond king who has taken a populist turn is out with another monthly investment commentary that features a negative view of Wall Street (God's work) and Federal Reserve monetary policy. I want to hone in on the…
Nationwide: House pries down again in the UK in January
The latest Nationwide House Price Index update is out showing a decline of 0.1% in January 2011. That brings house prices down 1.1% since this time last year. Nationwide has a new Chief Economist, Robert Gardner, who writes: "The…