[Blogs] 2008.05.16

Category: Investment

Pre-Market ( Wall St. Warrior )

Fun and Gamma ( Daily Options Report )

Quick Pin Refresher ( Daily Options Report )

Volatility Chart Du Jour, FSLR ( Daily Options Report )

Today’s Headlines ( Between the Hedges )

Bear Radar ( Between the Hedges )

Housing Starts Rise, Confidence Still Depressed ( Between the Hedges )

Bull Radar ( Between the Hedges )

Links of Interest ( Between the Hedges )

MOMENTUM ( Trading Goddess Stock Blog! )

Oil, my god ( Trading Goddess Stock Blog! )

10 Travel Websites that should be Bookmarked | MakeUseOf.com [del.icio.us] ( Trading Goddess Stock Blog! )

DocStoc - Free Professional Documents! [del.icio.us] ( Trading Goddess Stock Blog! )

ENIbody See Cramer is Feelin’ Chile? ( Trading Goddess Stock Blog! )

Please Take The Poll! ( Trading Goddess Stock Blog! )

A Few Sentiment Observations ( Quantifiable Edges )

Agency Bonds ( Across the Curve )

Corporate Bonds ( Across the Curve )

Some Links for a Friday Morning ( Across the Curve )

University of Michigan ( Across the Curve )

MBS ( Across the Curve )

Opening Comments May 16 2008 ( Across the Curve )

Will Tabloid Queen Get Tapped As Next Editor Of The Wall Street Journal? ( Dealbreaker )

Nick Maounis’s New Hire ( Dealbreaker )

Nothing Can Bring This Man Down ( Dealbreaker )

Layoffs Watch ‘08: Morgan Stanley ( Dealbreaker )

No Exit: PE Turns To Blank Check Companies For Exits ( Dealbreaker )

Icahn’s 30% Of Yahoo ( Dealbreaker )

Opening Bell: 5.16.08 ( Dealbreaker )

Raiders of the Lost Parked Stock ( Paul Kedrosky’s Infectious Greed )

Yahoo-Schmahoo: Google Takes Traffic Title ( Paul Kedrosky’s Infectious Greed )

Housing Starts Plunge Up and Down. More at 11. ( Paul Kedrosky’s Infectious Greed )

Yahoo: Yang Disease is Spreading ( Paul Kedrosky’s Infectious Greed )

Average? I Like Average, if It’s My Average. (Part II) ( The Aleph Blog )

Friday Reading ( The Float )

Buffett: “Was It Something I Said?” ( Bespoke Investment Group )

The Enron Loophole — Who Cares? ( Bespoke Investment Group )

Homebuilders When Housing Starts Are Stronger Than Expected ( Bespoke Investment Group )

A Look At The Respective Rallies in Tech, Housing and Oil ( Bespoke Investment Group )

Podcast: Pause to Ponder ( Teresa Lo | InVivoAnalytics.com )

The Financialization of America and Currency Wars in China ( Jesse’s Café Américain )

The Worst of the Credit Crisis May Not Be Over - Scholes ( Jesse’s Café Américain )

Free Trading Resources You Might Not Be Aware Of ( TraderFeed )

Treasury Yields: A Real-Time Market Sentiment Gauge ( TraderFeed )

The Shift from Roads to Rails ( VIX and More )

Go Daddy, and Grab That Domain ( 1440 Wall Street )

Eric Sprott Suggests Shortsellers Ruined Public Debut of Sprott, Inc. ( 1440 Wall Street )

Homebuilding Stocks Fluctuate on Interpretation of Housing Data ( 1440 Wall Street )

Rice Panic Subsides As Prices Collapse ( 1440 Wall Street )

Bonus Trade: Calendar Options — RTH June/July Double-Calendar ( Condor Options )

Calendar Options Adjustment Alert: EEM Double Calendar Spread ( Condor Options )

S&P 500 at 19-Week High ( CrossingWallStreet.com )

In the Financial Papers: Today’s Top Forex News 05.16.08 ( Kathy Lien )

New Apple Store Unveiled ( Afraid to Trade.com Blog )

Election Worries Have Put HMO Stocks Like United On Sale ( The Peridot Capitalist )

Lectures from Columbia University’s Value Investing Program ( Reflections on Value Investing )

Buffett Reflects on Great Businesses: Rising Prices Equal Rising Profits ( Reflections on Value Investing )

Will Gold go up or will Oil come down? ( Without Borders - Newsletters from Casey Research )

BLOOMBERG:Buffett’s Berkshire Boosts Kraft, Wells Fargo Stakes ( Everything Warren Buffett )

WFMI Results (+12.5% to +230%) ( OptionPundit )

Category: Economics

Sen. Dodd Praises Fed Chief As ‘Activist’ ( WSJ.com: Real Time Economics )

Fed and Bubbles: First, Heal Thyself? ( WSJ.com: Real Time Economics )

TAF Might Deserve a Place as a Fed Fixture ( WSJ.com: Real Time Economics )

Economists React: ‘Let’s Not Kid Ourselves’ on Housing ( WSJ.com: Real Time Economics )

Secondary Sources: Eye of the Storm, Governance, Superclass ( WSJ.com: Real Time Economics )

Nasdaq Podcast ( The Big Picture )

What Are You Doing with Your Stimulus Check? ( The Big Picture )

Housing Starts Plunge 30.6% ( The Big Picture )

Only 5% of Wall Street Recommendations Are “SELLS” ( The Big Picture )

Companies Cutting Hours Aggressively ( The Big Picture )

Loyalty Cards and Polymorphic Equilibria ( Economist’s View )

How and Why Do Bubbles Form? ( Economist’s View )

”Governance Writ Small” ( Economist’s View )

links for 2008-05-16 ( Economist’s View )

“The Rights Man” ( Economist’s View )

Home Builders Pessimistic: “Pricing pressure for the foreseeable future” ( Calculated Risk )

US to Halt Strategic Petroleum Reserve Purchases ( Calculated Risk )

FDIC’s Bair: Housing crisis is a national problem ( Calculated Risk )

Consumer Confidence Falls to 28 Year Low ( Calculated Risk )

Housing Starts Rebound, Single Family Starts Lowest Since 1991 ( Calculated Risk )

Fleck: HELOCs: The New Subprime ( Calculated Risk )

If You Won’t Pay Higher Taxes for Your Kids, Would You Pay Them for the Polar Bears? ( EconomistMom.com )

California Leads Way To Consumer Bust ( Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis )

ECB Concerned Over Swap-O-Rama Exit Strategy ( Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis )

Features of the week ( Finance Trends Matter )

On the Moneyed Midways - May 16, 2008 ( Political Calculations )

HOPING IT’S OVER ( The Capital Spectator )

Making fuel out of air and sunshine ( Econbrowser )

Making fuel out of air and sunshine ( Economist Blog )

Recession buzz: April update ( Economist Blog )

Bailout for Homeowners and Lenders? ( Economist Blog )

“The Black Hole of Agriculture”: “People Love Free Money” ( artdiamondblog.com )

The good old days ( The G Spot )

The Shame of Washington University ( The G Spot )

Addendum to the last post ( The G Spot )