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Best Mutual Funds to Invest
Mutual funds keep on being among the most well-known investing tools for both individual and expert investors who try to beat the market or just access a broad swath of investments rather than buy shares or bonds individually. Best Mutual Funds to Invest
The 25 Best Fast-Food Chains In America Right Now
As I was out for lunch, I was curious as to what research there about the "best" fast-food chains in America. That's when I stumbled upon this article . The article states that; [quote] Using proprietary data collected by Restaurant Business and its sister research firm Technomic from 2016, we...
Why does Bernie Sanders hate people who work on Wall Street?
I don't understand why this guy hates people who work on Wall Street unless he's referring to the people who were shitty subprime lenders.
Is America the most optimal place to be an investment banker?
Business Insider claims that European banks are losing to American ones, a difference most pronounced in fixed income trading, equities trading, and investment banking. I believe that the United States may indeed serve as the optimal place to be an investment banker, given the graphs that depict...
Can the US presidential election be compared to Brexit?
With only a few hours left till Election Day in the US, the election is being repeatedly compared to Brexit in terms of market reaction. A major shift in the government translates to some major shift in the market, and investors are nervously awaiting the election aftermath, stating that anxiety...
Who Is Rich?
Mod Note (Andy): Best of Eddie, this was originally posted in September 2010. To see all of our top content from the past, click here. If there's an old post from Eddie you'd like to see up again, shoot me a message. Who is rich? This is the perennial question in any progressive tax scheme. Where...
Darren Wilson / Mike Brown case
Or lack there of. How do you all feel about this? It seems like the DA cooked this case from the jump... And they're focusing more on the riots to get people's minds off how bad this case was done. ??
When Will the Chinese Learn?
Apparently, someone forgot to pass along the message to the Chinese that the most important part of government bond auctions is making sure they can't fail. Bond auctions should function more like Storage wars, where there is always a buyer, than what happened in China. Here's the story out of China...
Education: What the Finnish and Koreans Are Doing Right
It is no news that the American educational system, in general, has been in trouble. The average American student is known to show poorer test score, higher dropout rate, and lower literacy rate compared to the global benchmark. Recently, Louis Menand wrote an opinion on the New Yorker regarding...
Who Is Poor?
Andy note: "Blast from the past - Best of Eddie" - This one is originally from Sep. 2010. If there's an old post from Eddie you'd like to see up again shoot me a message. Yesterday's conversation about who is rich was so interesting that I thought I'd take today to explore who is poor, and what it...
How Do YOU Celebrate America?
I thought about trying to write something serious here today, but, I just couldn't. I'm sitting in the sun crushing beers and I just can't bring myself to think about something serious like what the hell is going on in Europe or any other financial news. What I was thinking about, though, is What is...
LIVE: Watch As The Final Piece Of One World Trade Center Is Lifted Into Place
Nice moment for America, cool moment for real estate. http://www.businessinsider.com/live-watch-as-the-spire-is-placed-on-top… Construction crews are currently placing the final part of the spire on top of Manhattan's One World Trade Center. The pieces are being lifted to a temporary work platform...
How far is too far?
Obama comments about the looks of an AG and he is deemed as a sexist. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/04/04/obama-likes-the-look-of… Thoughts? When will this political correct bullshit stop? If you have beliefs that people don't agree with you are a bigot(gay marriage argument) If you...
FBI: US Colleges Swarming With Spies
This is an interesting problem that the U.S. government faces. There are a large amount of spies attempting to steal information from U.S. universities and research institutions for both commercial reasons and militaristic reasons. In response, it seems that government agencies and universities are...
America is not a country, it's just a business.
Now fuckin' pay me. Just saw Killing Them Softly. This was the last line of the film. Anyone else find themselves agreeing with this point of view? It's fucked up, and kind of depressing...
Is it Time to Short America?
I've got two midterms on Monday that I've waited until the last minute to study for, so that obviously means I need to go off on a tangent. The more time I spend going to school and/or reading about current events, the more I get the impression that America and Wall Street is never going to return...
Skirts in Finance: Why Does Bankerella Hate America?
Those of you who follow our friends over at Wall Street Oasis may have recently seen a post by a ‘female banker’, who goes by Bankerella. She recently posted a blog about dating different finance guys, which has garnered some attention lately for ‘the Wall Street women’. The verdict from our...
The Future War on Terror
Late Sunday evenings almost always feel the same way. All the quality shows/games have already ended at this point and this slow feeling of dread starts to come over you as the start of the new work week slowly begins to kick in the closer bedtime comes. But on this particular Sunday evening around...
Feudalism in America?
[quote]It's a classic peasant mentality: going into fits of groveling and bowing whenever the master's carriage rides by, then fuming against the Turks in Crimea or the Jews in the Pale or whoever after spending fifteen hard hours in the fields. You know you're a peasant when you worship the very...
Increasing the Retirement Age
Maybe this topic is not appropriate for WSO as The Street is known for attracting workaholics. Still I have to ask the question, do you guys really want to be working well into your 70's? According to this Economist article that is precisely the sort of decision many of you will eventually have to...
I just came
ball traveled 50 yards sideways in the air.... hook of the century
Laissez-faire version of the ACLU?
Does anyone know of a legal organization that runs libertarian and protects citizens’ property rights? I imagine the Koch brothers (and other rich businessmen who don’t kowtow to the left) would donate a lot of money to such a thing. There must be a million laws on the books of dubious...
Today's Date
September 11th. Worthy of it's own paragraph and place in American history. On par with Pearl Harbor, Gettysburgh and the Constitutional Convention...perhaps in time...above them all. A day which we paid verbal attention but never adequately addressed. Having traveled much of the world I find that...
The Metaphysics of the Economy
With the economy trudging and sludging along, every self appointed expert has rushed to judgment and prophecy. Now, the press is even reporting on how they're not at fault . Comedy has a way of taking the strangest form. But let's take a step back and think about metaphysics. The word affluence...
Pakistan’s Energy Crisis and U.S. Interests
On 7 October 2001, the opening phase of "Operation Enduring Freedom" U.S. military campaign began, which quickly drove the Taliban and its al-Qaida affiliates from Kabul on 12 November. Since then, 1,760 U.S. troops have been killed in Afghanistan along with 942 International Security Assistance...
Face Of A Nation
If America was a fine maiden, one as pretty as our nation is strong, would she now be in the twilight of her career? At 234 years of age, her face would no doubt show signs of ageing. She’d be slightly bruised and scratched up from a couple of recent cat fights – she doesn’t let shit slide,...
America: Why Aren’t You Protesting?
As noted by Richard Heinberg on June 22nd, 2011, the media has lacked the ability to connect the economic situations in the Middle East and their uprisings to what is happening in Europe. I would avoid the word “Revolution” in the case of the Middle Eastern uprisings, seeing as no dramatic...
Tajikistan, a Frail Nation-State Amidst the New “Great Game”
The past two decades since the 1991 collapse of Communism have seen the Russian Federation and the U.S. involved in an updated version of the 19th century’s “Great Game’ for mastery in Eurasia over the debris field of the former USSR. Not surprisingly, Moscow regards its former colonial...
Donald Trump?
From his recent Comedy Central Roast to the Good Day interview, Donald Trump seems serious about running for office in 2012. When I first heard these speculations, I thought it was bogus and could never see myself taking The Don seriously as a candidate. However, the more I listen to him, the more I...
The US Finds its Superpower Structure and Capital are Insufficient to Cope with a Transformed World
The United States of America, in global strategic terms, is tumbling down a series of misadventures, declining in a “step of sighs” through frustrating economic and military endeavours as it discovers that its superpower structures and massive capital wealth are insufficient to cope with a...
WikiLeaks – State Secrets or Clever Tactics?
Is the US Government Machiavellian enough to orchestrate the recent brouhaha over the so-called website WikiLeaks, is this a real embarrassment, or will it indeed be damaging as some U.S. diplomats claim? I am not one to support conspiracy theories but when you stop to analyze the content of the...
USD...
I trust you've been watching the US dollar In the last three months, the USD has fallen overall, including against the EUR, JPY and GBP. it's tanking. It's around 1 EUR per 1.39 USD. I don't think I'm alone in expecting that despite this, America's trade balance, unemployment, manu etc... figures...
Questions on DCF
I have been learning more and more about DCF 's and other valuation models lately and have two questions that I can't find answers for. 1. Why is weighted average cost of capital used and not marginal cost of capital? Wouldn't marginal cost of capital be more representative of the actual cost? 2....
SWEET BRO ALERT: Where to find Busch Light in NYC?
I've been here 6 hours and I'm bout to take a dump on the Duane Reade counter for not carrying Busch.
The $50 Trillion Picture
The picture below is worth a thousand words. And $50 trillion. Financial Assets held by households - Chart This was just released by the Bank of Japan as part of their new "flow of funds" reporting. Basically, it outlines the composition of Japanese household assets versus counterpart households in...
JPMorgan Finance Analyst Development Program VERSUS Bank of America Finance Management Associate Intern Program
hi, i have offers from both of these positions right now.. i do not know exactly where i want to be 10 years from now, so which position will give me more opportunities on Wall Street.. both positions are corporate finance . If i want to go the Asset Management route later on, which opportunity best...
TARP / MRI Implications
Hey Folks, What are your thoughts on the proposed Trouble Asset Relief Program ( TARP ) that Hank Paulson continually is banging on the table this past weekend? The chief concern of most people (including myself) are the necessary oversight measures that will be placed into the program and to ensure...
America vs Europe
Interesting post over at face-time.com on American-European work relations. Interested to hear your thoughts http://www.face-time.com/?p=95
America's priorities unwinding?
Dealbreaker recently posted an article saying that the median income of the top 200 CEOs in terms of market cap in the US is now $2.2M. I would guess that the median income of the top 200 athletes from football, boxing, soccer, basketball etc is substantially higher. Ever wonder why the productive...
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