links for 2007-11-20
Posted on November 20th, 2007 in Links
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Masochism3 is a new plugin for Ruby on Rails that allows you to delegate all writes to a master database and reads to a slave database. The configuration process is just a few lines in your environment file and the plugin takes care of the rest.
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While globalization, outsourcing, and a relentless erosion of the U.S. manufacturing base have diminished its relative importance, the industry’s fortunes still matter a great deal.
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Lindsay gets crafty with Robert Kalin, founder of Etsy.com, and finds out why Grandma’s bunny always survives the fire.
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Has the elimination of the downtick rule has spiked market volatility? (Like Adam, I’m not convinced)
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The subprime spread continues: A Goldman Sachs report says the overall impact of mortgage losses on economic activity could be huge
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State-run Petrobras’ “monstrous” new oil find has wide-ranging implications for the South American country, the oil majors, oil services providers, and beyond
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Too often we get back to basics and trade well only after suffering a drawdown. By requiring ourselves to generate rules for best practices, we can ensure that we are doing the right things before those drawdowns occur.
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I have three simple things for your readers to do. These will save them and make a ton of money: Pay off your credit cards, Max out your tax deferred accounts, and start Dollar Cost Averaging into a few ETFs…
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Some great insight from Roger
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Excellent chart work, as usual by Declan(tags: stocks technicalanalysis)
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Herding-as-sentiment in general, and the VCI as a specific measure of herding, provide us with an interesting framework for analyzing historical price patterns in the stock market.(tags: stocks)
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I now offer to put Mr. Greenspan in touch with an American businessman who is currently experiencing first-hand the massive and inflationary impact of the recent collapse in the U.S. Dollar.
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Taken together, the points below are a handy guide for ETF trading. Each point has a link providing more detail.
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Lindsay decides to clean up the city one clue at a time. Stericycle. Inc. (SRCL) [ Caprius, Inc., Med/Waste, Inc.](tags: stocks)
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CEO of MyTrade, Andy Swan sent us a list of suggestions on how to become a stock market stud.
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If you act quickly, you can get into companies with hard real-estate assets before the coming herd of overseas investors does. Land also offers some protection against a bigger market downturn.
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italki is a language exchange and learning community. Its goal is to help people learn languages. italki is free, and registration takes only a minute!
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“They get our oil and give us a worthless piece of paper,†he said. “We all know that the US dollar has no economic value.†(via MaoXian)
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Yesterday we looked at evidence for a genetic theory of racial differences in IQ. Today let’s look at some of the arguments against it. Again, I’m drawing heavily on a recent exchange of papers published by the American Psychological Association.
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For more than three months, as turmoil in the credit market has swept wildly through Wall Street, one mighty investment bank after another has been brought to its knees, leveled by multibillion-dollar blows to their bottom lines. And then there is Goldman
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