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?

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From Greg Mankiw's Blog

The Results...

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2010 was awarded jointly to Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides "for their analysis of markets with search frictions".

2010 Predictions

Click here to read 2010 Predictions from Thomson Reuters for the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Roubini on Crisis

The global economy will suffer a "couple of financial crises over the next 10 years" as financial reforms are not going in the right direction and not enough is being done, warned Nouriel Roubini. Click here to read the article.

Nobel Prize

This year’s Nobel Prize announcements start on Monday October 4th. You can visit Nobelprize.org and watch live the announcements. The new Nobel Laureates generally receive the news by telephone from the Nobel Prize awarding institutions just minutes beforehand. Also in order to be informed for the very latest news you can sign-up for news feeds.Click here to read all the Nobel Prizes in Economic Science.

Cramer’s Top 11 American Companies

Click here to watch a slideshow with Top 11 American Companies according to Jim Cramer of Mad Money.

Chanos on Yuan

"We think there's a big speculative bubble that's going on over there and it's having knock-on effects on certain things like commodities or materials," Chanos told CNBC Tuesday. "We're short the property developers, we're also short basic materials companies." Click here to read the article...

How has the crisis changed economics?

Click here to read an article from The Economist on the way the crisis has changed and will change economics instruction and research.

Da Vinci Goes To College...

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What should young students learn?

Click here to read some advices from Professor N.G.Mankiw

The Most and the Least Shorted

In the following lists you can find from Seeking Alpha an overview with the most and least shorted stocks in the S&P 500 index, based on the short ratio.

Top 10 Most Shorted

Fastenal Co. (FAST): 12.87
Cerner Corp. (CERN): 12.43
Waste Management, Inc. (WM): 12.43
CMS Energy Corp. (CMS): 11.43
Integrys Energy Group, Inc. (TEG): 10.55
Roper Industries Inc. (ROP): 10.31
Mylan, Inc. (MYL): 10.13
Total System Services, Inc. (TSS): 10.13
Moody's Corp. (MCO): 9.98
Cincinnati Financial Corp. (CINF): 9.47

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Top Ten Least Shorted

Apple Inc. (AAPL): 0.43
McAfee, Inc. (MFE): 0.46
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS): 0.65
Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO): 0.68
SanDisk Corp. (SNDK): 0.69
Pactiv Corp. (PTV): 0.75
MetLife, Inc. (MET): 0.75
Hasbro Inc. (HAS): 0.81
Bank of America Corporation (BAC): 0.82
PerkinElmer Inc. (PKI): 0.82

* Short Ratio: A sentiment indicator that is derived by dividing the short interest by the average daily volume for a stock. This indicator is used by both fundamental and technical traders to identify the prevailing sentiment the market has for a specific stock.