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26.Intel, VCs Investing $3.5 Billion In U.S. Tech (www.informationweek.com)
Plans to boost the economy by promoting venture capital investments & more hiring of college grads.
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27.Economic Report of the President - From The White House (www.whitehouse.gov)
Fascinating - annual report and overview of the nation's economic progress written by the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.
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28.The Housing Market’s Crystal Ball (www.nytimes.com)
Economists Predict That Mortgage Rates Will Begin to Rise in March.
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29.Fund Flows: All It Took Was a Few Bad Trading Days to Send Equity Investors to the Exits Again (www.businessinsider.com)
The equity fund outlfows continued this week.
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30.Recovery Focus: Hard Work Finding Which Banks to Bet On (online.wsj.com)
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31.U.S. Foreclosure Filings Drop Significantly in January (slatest.slate.com)
This shows a 10% drop from the previous month; but was 15% more than January 2009.
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32.Researchers: Asia Killed Us With Low-End Labor, Now They're About to Finish the Job (www.businessinsider.com)
Interesting chart.
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33.Looking for a Quick Recovery? Why America's Recession Differs From the Great Depression (knowledge.emory.edu)
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34.Google Buys Aardvark (www.informationweek.com)
With its first acquisition of 2010, Google is showing that it's serious about social networking. And as M&A picks up so does the chance of a real recovery.
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35.Asia Trading Volumes To Grow 20-30% Per Year (wallstreetandtech.com)
from Wall Street & Technology
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36.Betting It All on Growth (online.wsj.com)
The Problem: Painful levels of unemployment, yawning fiscal deficits & overleveraged consumers. The solution: Growth. From WSJ.
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37.Wall Street's Bailout Hustle (www.rollingstone.com)
Taibbi's Take - Goldman Sachs and other big banks pocketing trillions & re-creating the conditions for another crash
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38.In Surprise Move, Fed Signals Pivot to Normal Policy (www.nytimes.com)
After-Hours, Fed Raises Interest Rate That It Charges Banks.
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39.Dollar Jumps After Surprise Fed Discount Rate Hike (www.marketwatch.com)
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40.Singapore Raises its 2010 Growth Forecast (www.marketwatch.com)
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41.Number-Crunchers Crunched (www.economist.com)
The Uses and Abuses of Mathematical Models, from The Economist's special report on financial risk.
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42.CME Buys 90 Percent of Dow Jones Index Unit for $607M (www.nytimes.com)
Interesting concept for the exchange to own an index ...
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43.China Becomes World's Largest Exporter (slatest.slate.com)
Finally surpassing Germany suggests that global demand for Chinese made goods is continuing and Chinese consumers are spending too.
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44.Slate Reviews Hank Paulson's New Memoir from Inside the Crisis (www.slate.com)
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45.Dow Closes Below 10,000 On Euro Zone Debt Woes (www.reuters.com)
Will there be buyers here? Or, do you expect more weakness?
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46.The Looming De-Leveraging Challenge (www.mckinseyquarterly.com)
Several major economies are likely to face imminent and painful de-leveraging. From McKinsey Quarterly
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47.The Birth of BRIC (seekingalpha.com)
How it came to be, and a few other countries worth considering as investment options.
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48.Does George Soros Think Gold is an Asset Bubble? (www.slate.com)
Slate reports from Davos that he does ...
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49.Apple's Giant Pile Of Cash In Context (www.businessinsider.com)
Great chart. To me, it will be an early indicator of recovery when companies start deploying the cash again.
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50.Google Revenues Reach $1.34 Million Per Employee (www.businessinsider.com)
That is an inspiring number.
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