1. A conversation about economics with Nassim Taleb 59 minutes ago   permalink

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Jonathan / My Money Blog :   Taleb’s Thanksgiving Turkey

MyMoneyBlog / Pfblogs.org :   Taleb’s Thanksgiving Turkey

2. EuroBancshares downgraded to "market perform" 1 hour ago   permalink

Newratings.com

NEW YORK, November 27 (newratings.com) - Analysts at Keefe Bruyette downgrade EuroBancshares (ticker: EUBK) from "outperform" to "market perform." [ more ]

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Newratings.com First State Banc downgraded to "market perform"   —  NEW YORK, November 27 (newratings.com) - Analysts at Keefe Bruyette downgrade First State Banc (ticker: FSNM) from "outperform" to "market perform." The target price has been reduced from $3 to $1. [ more ]

Newratings.com R&G Financial downgraded to "market perform"   —  NEW YORK, November 27 (newratings.com) - Analysts at Keefe Bruyette downgrade R&G Financial (ticker: RGFC) from "outperform" to "market perform." The target price has been reduced from $2.50 to $1. [ more ]

3. Friday Fiscals: Cruise edition 6 hours ago   permalink

Mighty Bargain Hunter / Pfblogs.org

Not me, by the way:  my wife has a very generous aunt who has offered to take the girls (my wife, my daughter, and my mother-in-law) on a cruise in warm waters.  So I get to hold down the fort and feed the pets. Here are some money links of interest from my feed reader: Bargaineering kicks [...] ...

4. How to get rid of... 3 hours ago   permalink

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5. Bits Bucket For 50 minutes ago   permalink

Ben Jones / The Housing Bubble Blog

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6. 2010 Dodge Ram 3500 1 hour ago   permalink

Yielding Wealth / Pfblogs.org

One of the biggest, baddest, most powerful pickup trucks on the market today is the all new 2010 Dodge Ram 3500. Now if you need raw HEMI power and don’t care or have concern for fuel consumption than this is the truck for you. You’ll never have to worry if your load is too big for this one. It’ll tow your house if you need to. ...

7. On DVD and Blu-ray: “Funny People” 2 hours ago   permalink

Yielding Wealth / Pfblogs.org

Funny People was released on DVD and Blu-ray this week and it’s the perfect movie for a weekend of hanging out with some good friends and good food.  The cast is pretty impressive and features Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann, Jonah Hill, Eric Bana and Jason Schwartzman. The film follows the life of famous comedian, George Simmons (Sandler)

8. My views on global warming 2 hours ago   permalink

Www.marginalrevolution.com

2. It is a very real problem. If you don't believe me, go visit the deltas of East Bengal or Bangladesh and think about it again. Sweden I am not worried about and Greenland may become valuable, but where do we put the losers and no this isn't just a few small islands in the Pacific.

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Bryan Caplan / EconLog :   When Is Uncertainty an Argument for Inaction?

9. Schwarzenegger hit with $79,000 tax lien 2 hours ago   permalink

Don't Mess With Taxes / Pfblogs.org

California's Governator is dealing with more tax woes. This time, though, they're federal. And they're personal. The IRS filed a tax lien against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for $79,064 in May. The governor's apparently overdue federal taxes came to light Friday when celebrity news site TMZ.com posted a copy of a lien document reportedly filed with.

10. Balsamic Salad Dressing Recipes 5 hours ago   permalink

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ThriftyFun.com Instructions for Love and Money Looms   —  Login using the form on the top of the page to post feedback (if you are a registered user). If you have not yet registered, click here to do so. It's FREE!.

11. This is SHG from... 4 hours ago   permalink

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12. Whipped Cream Cheese 5 hours ago   permalink

ThriftyFun.com

I cannot find Philadelphia "Whipped" cream cheese in "Fat Free". I bought some Fat Free and am looking on ways to make it into a "Whipped" version. I do not know what to add to the fat free cream cheese in order to whip it; fat free milk? Thanks.

13. An iPhone Money App That I Would Buy 5 hours ago   permalink

Jeffrey Strain / Personal Finance Advice

I don’t have an iPhone (I don’t even have a cell phone, but that’s a whole other story), but if I did, I would definitely buy the Opportunity Cost of Money iPhone app. This iPhone app makes the cost of your purchases concrete. Basically, it’s an iPhone app where you list all of the things [...]

14. A Nation of Shopaholics? 5 hours ago   permalink

Jeffrey Strain / Personal Finance Advice

There is an image that the US has become an nation of shopaholics driven primarily by consumerism. Lee Eisenberg, the author of Shoptimism, believes that this is not truly the case. He sees that the average person still retains some of the frugality on which the US was founded and believes that most people that [...]

15. Rashomon in the desert 18 hours ago   permalink

Krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Dubai or not Dubai — that is the question. Dubai’s sorta-kinda default (a state-owned enterprise seeking a rescheduling of its debts) is, by itself, not that big of a deal. But who else looks like Dubai? What kind of omen is this for the next stage in the financial crisis?

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Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution :   Should we apply a transactions tax to REPO?

CalculatedRisk / Calculated Risk :   More on Dubai

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Tim / The Mess That Greenspan Made The Dubai debt comes due   —  Who would have ever thought that debt in Dubai would someday be a problem? In a story that sounds all too much like that of a U.S. real estate agent who, after a couple of good years in the middle of the decade decided to get levered up to the maximum banks would allow rather than paying down their debt only to watch things come crashing down ...

Www.tagesanzeiger.ch Credit Suisse dementiert Kreditrisiko in Dubai   —  Spekulationen um Finanzprobleme des Emirats Dubai haben am Donnerstag Spuren in den Aktienkursen der beiden Grossbanken Credit Suisse (CS) und UBS hinterlassen. Die CS will beruhigen. Christian / InvestorGeeks :    Dubai = Technical Sell-Off!

Www.livemint.com A stark warning from Dubai   —  Is Dubai another canary in the coal mine, just as Iceland was at the beginning of the crisis, or is it just a real-estate related problem confined to Dubai? Ben Jones / The Housing Bubble Blog :    A New Upswing Or Retrospective Claptrap? Www.calculatedriskblog.com Northern Trust on Dubai   —  James Pressler at Northern Trust provides an overview of the Dubai situation: Dubai’s Latest Mega-project – A Massive Default? (pdf) A few excerpts: The complexities of the UAE’s governmental structure make the situation difficult to grasp at first glance, but the problem can be captured by a few basic points. First, Dubai is ...

16. Bloomberg: Mark Pittman, Reporter Who Foresaw Crisis, Dies at 52 8 hours ago   permalink

Www.ritholtz.com

Our friend and comrade Mark Pittman of Bloomberg News died unexpectedly on Wednesday.  The link to the Bloomberg story is below.  Mark was a great reporter and a great friend.  He prized accuracy over timeliness at a time when many people in the media don’t know the difference.  He led the legal effort to force the Fed to open the books ...

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Msnbc.com NYC’s Bloomberg spent $183 per vote   —  Mayor Michael Bloomberg's narrower-than-expected reelection campaign cost the billionaire some $102 million, or about $183 per vote, The New York Times reported.

17. Flipper in Trouble? 7 hours ago   permalink

Www.calculatedriskblog.com

A flipper bought this one in September for $330,000, and has reduced the asking price to $379,000. Still no takers. Jim the Realtor is watching for "flips turning to flops" and this might be one. For more - and a couple of interviews with Adam (a flipper who had made money) - see Jim's site.

18. Tiger injured in crash 3 hours ago   permalink

Nbcsports.msnbc.com

Tiger Woods, the world's No. 1 golfer, was seriously injured in a car crash outside his Florida home early Friday morning, the Florida Highway Patrol says.

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Moneycontrol Top Headlines Tiger Woods seriously injured in accident   —  World number one golfer Tiger Woods was seriously injured in a car accident on Friday, a Florida newspaper reported.

19. Abu Dhabi expected to prop up smaller brother 10 hours ago   permalink

Www.ft.com

Since the full scale of Dubai’s huge debt mountain hit home late last year, many investors who have sunk billions of dollars into the emirate’s extravagant projects have been turning their heads to the UAE’s capital for reassurance.

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CalculatedRisk / Calculated Risk :   Northern Trust on Dubai

20. Carmelo turns 50 vs. Knicks 3 hours ago   permalink

Nbcsports.msnbc.com

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