Category: Investing

The New Generals: AAPL and MSFT (G vs. V)

Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 12pm
By John Friedman

Much has been written in the past week about the value of Apple, as a company, now exceeding the value of Microsoft as a company. The more jargony way of saying this is that that AAPL’s market capitalization (often trun cated down tomarket cap) exceeds MSFT’s market capitalization. In fact, […]

Three Els

Friday, June 19, 2009 at 12pm
By John Friedman

Popular investing talk these days is that the period from March 9, 2009 (the low of the market during the meltdown) through, say, mid-May, was the fastest/biggest up-move in the stock market ever. Or at least since The Depression. Or something like that. I haven’t researched the truth of that […]

The Problem with Trying to Predict the Future: Whooz t’ Know?

Friday, January 27, 2006 at 11am
By John Friedman

Today I awake to a report that growth of the GDP last quarter was anemic, at a 1.1% annual rate (3% to 5% is usually considered Goldilocksian just right, in the sense that too much growth can generate wicked inflation, and too little growth can feed on itself to generate […]

The human zoo

Monday, November 22, 2004 at 10am
By John Friedman

  I’ve been meaning to take a break from writing this blog, to get back to my knitting, as they say, and was well on my way to doing that today, until I read a story about 10 top-rated internet stocks [as of checking the former link to the article on […]

Of basis points, beeps and bips: the atoms of interest rates

Wednesday, November 10, 2004 at 10am
By John Friedman

Today I have something short and purely educational for you. Interest rates are in the news today. Greenspan et al. are meeting, and there is unanimous agreement among the punditocracy that he will raise short term interest rates (the only interest rates over which he has much power) by 0.25%. […]

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