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China Pumps the Brakes, Time for a Little Honesty With Ourselves
Against the backdrop of China seeking to cool off its economy, today might be a good time to reasses what we actually own.
Hot Links: We're All Bloggers Now
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning…
A Supply Sider Embraces the Too Big To Fail Tax
A former Reagan staffer explains why the tax on giant bailed-out banks is actually a fiscally conservative proposal.
Bespoke's Estimated Earnings Growth by Sector
What sectors will post the most earnings growth this season?
Barbarian Capital's Academia Drive-By Shooting
Blind faith in Academia can be extremely dangerous.
Skype-P.O. in the Works?
Will Skype come public? Did you know they had more users than Facebook, MySpace and Twitter combined?
The Scariest Recovery Shape I've Heard Yet
Michael Pento sees a Teepee-Shaped Recovery. That would be…not cute.
Hot Links: Glen Bell, Cheap Oil & a Great Time to be a Bank
Links for morning reading…
TRB in the Financial Times Talking BRIC
I just got around to reading and digesting Gillian Tett‘s phenomenal recounting of the BRIC saga from the Financial Times this past Friday. Tett does a great job getting to the origins of where the research team got its idea to conceptualize the investment theme and then traces its global spread from finance to consumer…