In the News - The Economy and Markets -Unintended Consequences:
"...May you have a strong foundation, When the winds of changes shift..." - Bob Dylan
- High-Speed Trading No Longer Hurtling Forward, NY Times, October 14,2012
- Wall Street Equities Traders Face Worst Year Since 2006 - Bloomberg http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-02/wall-street-equities-traders-face-worst-year-since-2006.html
- The New Nonsense: Leaving Finance | The Big Picture http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/10/the-new-nonsense-leaving-finance/
- If Wall Street Isn't Hiring Traders Anymore, Who Is It Hiring? Minyanville, June 20, 2012
- There's Something Happening in NYC zite.to/JW8zjA
- Almost Half of Finance Graduates Seek New Jobs, PwC Says, Bloomberg, May 7, 2012
- Are HFT and Exchanges doing wrong?: Study Says Broker Rebates Cost Investors Billions, NY Times, May 7, 2012
- Stock Trading Is Still Falling After '08 Crisis, NY Times, May 7, 2012
- Long Awaited Energy Independence Coming: Texas Boom in Fracking Oil, U.S. Inches Toward Goal of Energy Independence, NY Times, March 22, 2012
In the News - Technology News and Trends:
- Will Wall Street Data Centers go Hybrid Cloud? Wall Street & Technology Oct, 2012
- Cloud computing's momentum is shocking even for Google exec lnkd.in/Xqa5hP
- The Business Market Plays Cloud Computing Catch-Up in NY Times, April 14, 2011
- Google CIO Ben Fried Says Cloud Tipping Point Is At Hand, WSJ, May 10, 2012
- The Business Market Plays Cloud Computing Catch-Up in NY Times, April 14, 2011
Must Reads:
- NYC Bright Spot: Technology Footprint: Starting Up in New York, NY Times, Nov 19, 2011 Technology booms in Midtown South
- Math, Science, and Reading Score Internationa Comparisons by Gate Foundation... Either we fix it or we are moving to the bottom.
- www.dshort.com Doug Short has an outstanding website which reviews stock market history and trends. If you are interested as an investor, please read this site.
- How the Crash Will Reshape America by Richard Florida in The Atlantic Monthly, March 2009. Excellent coverage of the changes expected by region in the US economy. New York does come out well as do the larger coastal cities. The regions that were built, almost entirely, on real estate booms, such as Nevada and Arizona are in deep trouble. There will be a trend towards movement from ex-urbia, suburbia back to central cities.
- A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World by William J. Bernstein. Besides being a fascinating history of trade that is loaded with interesting factoids, global trade will be a news maker as the world economies try to recover and trade imbalances become a political football.