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Conservation Value Notes (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
CNN covers the emerging field of ecosystem services -- and how to properly compensate countries, communities, and landowners for the services they provide to societies. From coral reefs to forests, natural capital is under direct threat, and the combined pressures of climate change, ocean acidification, urbanization, pollution and logging are pushing the natural world to the brink. These ecosystems...
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iStockAnalyst.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Currencies are not financial instruments which typically come to mind when talking about long term investments. Vast majority of financial advisors suggests a mix of bonds and stocks to their clients, with some cash investments, like money market funds or CD’s thrown into the mix. [More...]
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A CalPERS board member on Thursday produced a canceled check showing he paid $23,630 for a trip to London, Dubai and Hong Kong in 2006 after it was initially paid for by a Nevada businessman whose clients were seeking investments from California's giant public employee pension fund. Board member Charles Valdes gave The Bee a new explanation of how he paid for his Dubai trip a day after telling the...
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EconLog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
George Selgin writes , Economists generally take for granted, if only tacitly, a teleological view of money's historical development, according to which it first takes the "primitive" form of mundane commodities such as cowrie shells and cacao seeds, and then advances through various stages, culminating in the national fiat monies most economies rely upon today. Money, Markets, and Sovereignty...
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Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The headline didn't have the "u" in arb. I added it because that word is one of the few opportunities I get to sound semi-sophisticated. [ he also likes "tranche" and "pari passu". "force majeure", not so much -ed ] From Bloomberg: Warren Buffett is giving arbitrage traders the chance to capture annualized earnings of 22 percent on his bid for Burlington Northern...
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Cafe Hayek (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
There are only very few scholars — and even fewer economists — whose every word is worthwhile to read. George Selgin is in that elite group. Here’s Selgin’s review of Benn Steil’s and Manuel Hinds’s wonderful book, Money, Markets & Sovereignty.
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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Continuing a trend we've been seing for quite some time, investors continue to pull money out of equity funds (and money market funds), and put that cash into fixed income/credit. Goldman Sachs (via ShiftCTRL Group ) Credit, non-US stocks gain flow share in 4Q For the week ending 11/4, Lipper FMI data and our preliminary estimates suggest equity funds remained in the outflow mode, shedding another...
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Super Universal Financial (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
By Ahmad Hassam The infamous stock market crash of 1929 took place in October. Then anther stock market crash took place in October 1989. October is the month in which the most famous crashes historically took place. You must have across the word the January Effect so many times. Do you believe in the January Effect? Markets are all about people buying and selling. What you believe is what you see...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
THE introduction of the multi-currency system has seen a reasonable increase in liquidity in the money market giving impetus for the revival of long-term debt capital.
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rssblogstory (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Money market mutual funds are paying a pittance. Look to local banks, laddered CDs and short-term bond funds to achieve higher yields. 45 Vote(s)
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Daily Advance - Business (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
NEW YORK — Total money market mutual fund assets fell by $31.26 billion to $3.339 trillion for...
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The Audacious Epigone (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Tangentially related to the recent post looking at the relatationship between intelligence, conscientiousness, and credit scores at the state level are discussions over tactics to build (or more accurately, inflate) one's individual credit rating. Not long ago, Razib emphasized a few ways of going about this (the web is, incidentally, brimming with this kind of advice ), but that's not where the impetus...
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Leicester Politics (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Tonight Michael Portillo on This Week gave a view already made the point made by John Redwood in his excellent blog that the Quantitative Easing pump up of £25,000,000,000 is being put in place to make sure the Government does not run out of money ahead of a Spring election. What is becoming more certain is this form of funding for Government is not sustainable and whichever party runs the Country...
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Charles Schwab Corp expects to waive about $100 million in money market fees in the current quarter, up 28 percent from the previous quarter, the largest U.S. discount brokerage said on Thursday.
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Banknerd.ca (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
TD Asset Management Inc. (TDAM) has reported that long-term fund net sale totalling $624 million for the month of October, and the money market fund net redemption of $46 million. Assets invested in TD Mutual Funds totalled $53.2 billion as of the end of October 2009. This is the second straight month that TD has experienced record [...]
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