Christine head IMF

French Finance Minister, Christine Lagarde, to be appointed to head IMF after gaining support from E.U, U.S and Russia. More info here.

International Monetary Friends

Stanley Fischer, Governor of the Bank of Israel enters the IMF race according to Bloomberg. He was a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1977 to 1988, where he authored two popular economics textbooks, Macroeconomics (with Rüdiger Dornbusch and Richard Startz), and Lectures on Macroeconomics (with Olivier Blanchard). He was also Ben Bernanke's and Greg Mankiw's Ph.D. thesis advisor. For more information visit also wikipedia.

iCloud, iOS 5 and Mac Lion...Part 2.

Live Blog and presentation videos from CNBC.

Are you willing to pay in order to eat with Warren Buffet?

In case you want to eat with Buffet please visit www.LunchWithWarrenBuffett.com for your bid and read how much may cost you in order to be prepared...

Check also here for the latest updates and bids...

iCloud, iOS 5 and Mac Lion...

Click here to to explore the 3 new products from Apple and Steve Jobs...

Which is the biggest tech IPO?

Yandex NV, owner of Russia most popular Internet search engine, is the biggest technology IPO worldwide this year. Its shares jumped 38 percent in Nasdaq after raising $1.3 billion in an initial public offering. From Bloomberg.

Cartoon of the Week

Do U.S. need a strong dollar?

Click here to read a New York Times article from Christina D. Romer, economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and chairwoman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers.

Economists Vote Economists

Who are the favorite economic thinkers of the twentieth century now deceased or alive, which are the favorites economic journals or blogs. If you want to know what economists vote click here from EJW.

A Financial Crisis Tour

Click here to read from Reuters some comments of the speech that Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit gave to business students at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School for financial crisis.

OnlyGold

Click here to watch 10 Outrageous objects made of Gold. From CNBC.com.

Jim on Commodities...

Do you want to know where oil and silver prices go? Famous investor Jim Rogers has the answer. Click here to read the article from CNBC.

Goodnight Moon

Click here to watch 3 Harvard Professors reading Goodnight Moon, an American children's book written by Margaret Wise Brown highly acclaimed example of a bedtime story. From Greg Mankiw's Blog.

Best Jobs

Click here to red the best jobs in U.S. for 2011.

The "relationship" between Anne Hathaway and Warren Buffett

Click here to read an article from CNBC of how the actress Anne Hathaway helped Warren Buffet shares. Whenever her name appeared with any regularity in news stories, Berkshire Hathaway A shares rose in value.

The American Dream - Part 2

The American Dream - Part 1

M&A

AT&T, the US wireless operator, said it was buying T-Mobile USA from the German Deutsche Telecom AG for $39 billion in cash and stock, a move that would create the nation's largest wireless carrier. Click here to read the full article from Wall Street Journal.

Oil Cartoon

Trade on Tragedy...

Click here to read an article for why some investors are betting in Japan's rise.

The Funny Side Of The Street

 

The good news, sir, is that Harris was able to sell off our losing stocks. 

The bad news is that Simpson here bought them from Harris.

Click here to visit The Wall Street Journal Cartoon Collection 

at Baker Library in Harvard Business School

What does one TRILLION dollars look like?

Please click here to learn it...

From Greg Mankiw's Blog