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"Older Posts" in my Blogger Template

This has been ticking me off for a while. I use Blogger “templates” and not “Layouts”, and there has never been the ability to create ...

John Mauldin: The Law of Unintended Consequences

John Mauldin’s Thoughts from the frontline: The law of unintended consequences: In the beginning there were ratings agencies, and they rated corporate ...

Buffett's Annual Letter 2008

Warren Buffet’s Annual Report is here. Always fun to read, and interesting titbits emerge. This has been the worst absolute year for Berkshire Hathaway ...

#Linkfest: Links and more links

Lots of links: Even the rich are starting to default. Not just “cant afford it”, but “can afford, don’t want to” TARP, ...
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SEC finds another fraud: Sanford, $8 bn

Bloomberg: U.S. regulators accused R. Allen Stanford of running a “massive, ongoing fraud” while selling about $8 billion in certificates of deposit ...

China: Loans diverted to stocks, but not real estate

Bloomberg: Chinese loans diverted to stocks As much as 660 billion yuan ($97 billion) may have been converted by companies into term deposits or used to buy ...

A deal by Indian Standards: 585K in Chula Vista

$585,000 for this place shown by Jim the realtor: (Hat tip: Calculated Risk) That’s about Rs. 2.8 cr., for a 4300 sq. ft. 4br house, fireplace, pool in ...

Fuel Price Cuts Coming Soon?

Mint: Govt may slash fuel rates on Thu The government may cut petrol, diesel and domestic LPG prices on Thursday, besides freeing fuel pricing from ...

Wipro barred from World Bank since 2007

From Bloomberg: Wipro Ltd., India’s third-largest software exporter, said it was barred from bidding for contracts from the World Bank until 2011 after it ...

Gilt yields fall off the floor, prices near all time highs

I’ve been tracking the RBI’s Negotiated Dealing System all day today and it’s unbelievable. All G-Secs have risen HUGELY in price, from ...