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Defending the Squid
The Blogotariat is up in arms on the subject of Goldmans latest evilness-itude. Goldman Sachs, apparently, blatantly favours clients that pay them more money. Baruch is shocked. And so we should all...
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Where’s the iPorn?
Baruch is slowly coming to terms with the ghastly truth. Apple is closing down everyone else in the smartphone market, and it seems that nothing can stop it. For over 10 years the mainly European...
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iPorn exists! I take it all back
(Asian Boobs) As proprietor of a family site (in the sense that my mum sometimes reads the blog), Baruch is unwilling to show the images of one of the apparently best-selling apps on the iPhone,...
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Google: Scientist
Baruch, Symbolism is never lost on the Chinese, who are the masters of signaling, and thus there was some great poignancy to Google’s A new approach to China being posted to the blogspot.com domain,...
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In defence of the Verizon iPhone
Baruch has already forgotten about the iPad. Whether chick magnet or large print e-Reader for the elderly, any ideas we have about its significance are speculation at this point, and will probably...
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No Stock Recommendations here; move along
Baruch recently found himself commenting on Wall Street Cheat Sheet, on a post by Damien Hoffman, who seems to really dislike Jim Cramer. The post was about some investigation of TheStreet.com by the...
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The thin veneer
Baruch is staring-eyed and stressed. This sovereign debt crisis is beginning to wear him down. He’s beginning to worry. He wouldn’t mind if he was just dealing with risk; he can quantify and hedge...
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Google’s long goodbye
Baruch: Today, another round of derivative punditry: There is much reading of tea leaves re Google’s reading of tea leaves re what Chinese authorities really think of Google’s continued web presence in...
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Myths about stockmarket myths that just won’t die
Baruch hasn’t stopped blogging. He’s just been busy at work. To be fair, there also hasn’t been that much he has wanted to write about. That changes here! A recent and growing animus in the...
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Through the looking glass again
I’ve been catching up on my reading and dear Bento, if anyone tells you they have a clear view on what is going to happen to the econo-world from here, walk away briskly. As Ed Hyman of ISI* puts it,...
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Get me some of that subprime action!
One part of Baruch’s latest post concerned what after today may now properly be called “Mortgage Crisis II — The Evil Spawn”. I’m not referring to the foreclosure issue, that’s totally separate. I mean...
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Quantitative Queasing
So we have been having Quantitative Easing already, and Baruch doesn’t like it. The stockmarket is up (or was), the data seems to be improving; QE has done its work and for all we know it will...
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Baruch the political football
James Suroweicki is using Baruch’s (rather good) line, the “undead homicidal zombie market” as grist to his anti-anti QE2 mill. What’s most striking about the attacks on QE2 is how hysterical they...
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Homicidal zombie markets reconsidered
Baruch received old media brickbats for his bloggy frettings last year about the impact and meaning of QE2. At the time, while understanding why people thought it was necessary, he worried that we were...
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The Beginning of the End of the Euro Crisis?
Baruch has been a student of the wondrously dysfunctional Greek political system long before it became fashionable, and is surprised at the sudden relevance of what he had always thought to be rather...
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Chinese plans for world technology domination foiled again. For now.
It all seems to be going wrong for Chinese-American relations when it comes to technology. Late last month Tsinghua University’s purchase of a minority stake in Western Digital was referred to CFUIS,...
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