SHANE OUCHI I do what I love and fake the rest…
Kanoa’s Korner
Two Minute Drill: Don’t Be So Emotional…
The two minute drill…your interesting tidbit of the day in two mins or less.. Contrary to popular belief, there’s no difference between us and most other mammals…at least emotionally… We are all driven by stimuli triggered from our inner amygdala that drives our most primal and instinctual motivations and desires. Whether our protective instincts, our [...]
Two Minute Drill: 2nd Law of Thermodynamics vs. Locker Occupancy
The two minute drill…your interesting tidbit of the day in two mins or less… The second law of thermodynamic states that within any closed system, entropy never decreases, and thus, in simplest form, systems tend towards higher and higher dis-organization as a function of time… However, after a hard workout at the gym, I find [...]
Two Minute Drill: Wealth, Power, Influence, Change
The two minute drill…your interesting tidbit of the day in two mins or less… Almost everyone at one point or another in their life has dreamed about being wealthy. But few people ever get there, and even fewer of them see it as a means to enact change in this world. Only the wealthy have [...]
Check Out MarketHeist
Check out MarketHeist!! A site reviewing investing and trading tools, services and education. It’s a great resource for investors of all experience levels and in all asset types! Go to www.marketheist.com Thanks and enjoy!
Links for 4/7/2010
Here are some links for 4/7/2010: Who will pay for china’s bad loan?
Links for 4/6/2010
Here are some links for today… BLS Latest Jobs Data + Beveridge Curve 4-wk Auction Closes Up; 52-wk Auction too EIA Short-term Fuel Outlook Discount Rate vs Fed Funds Rate At This Point 3-yr Auction Closes at 1.776% HY Predictive Content of Commodities Futures
Links for 3/15/2010
Here are some links: Notes on Dodd’s Financial Reform Bill COF Defaults Decline, BAC defaults increase Industrial Production, Capacity Utilization Increase
Links for 3/9/2010
Here are some good links for 3/9 /2010: 4-wk Auction Indirect Bidding 99.1% hit yield JPM’s CDS Handbook 3-yr Auctions @ 1.437% High 295 B Euro Withdrawn From ECB For Fine-Tuning Notes About The Japan Disaster Scenario
Links for 3/2/2010
Here are some links for 3/2/2010: Wells Fargo Below the FDIC Limit of 3.0 Capital / Asset Ratio Non-Bank (Personal) Bankruptcy Filings Up 14% From Feb 09 Credit Suisse $1T ARM “Re-Cast” thru 2010 6 Biggest Banks Assets Equals 63% Of GDP 8 Largest Housing Market Recovering Areas Have Reversed Can a Price Tag Change [...]
Links for 01/05/2010
Here are some links for this first post of the new year: Financial: US Avoids Technical Default Marketwatch Calls Out the Fed for After-Hours Futures Market Manipulation December YoY Tax Witholdings Decreases Cleveland Fed Ridicules Krugman About Recession Based On Steepening Yield Curve — Seriously?? 80% Probability for UK Downgrade says PIMCO $16B 4-Wk Bills [...]
Links for 12/24/2009
Here are some links for xmas eve: US buying up $500B of its own Treasuries? Freddie Mac Spreads Widen Further HFT & After-Hrs Future Manipulation Market Boosts End of the Sovereign AAA? $27B Excess of Par for Call Provisions on US Treasuries (excluding TIPS) Why Fed Reserve’s Policies Won’t Work
Links for 12/15/2009
Here are some links for today: Finance: Roubini’s Argument Smashed by QB Asset Management Glass-Steagall Under Consideration For Re-Instatement ZeroHedge Commentary on Glass-Steagall Possibility Lowest Home Builder Numbers Since June 2009 One Month Treasury Bills Auctioned at 0%…AGAIN Money Velocity Effects on Rally COF Net Charge Offs & Delinquency Rates Rise Daily Highlights
Links for 12/14/2009
Here are some links for today: Finance: Hyperinflation to Be A Problem In The Next 5 Years Mexico Downgraded from BBB+ to BBB Observations on Dubai World Bailout Weekly Outlook On Markets Global Debt-to-GDP Correlation to CDS Spreads
Links for 11/26/2009
Here Are Some Links for Turkey Day: News: Data Shows UN / IPCC Global Warming Problem A Fraud Financials: US Market Worries About Dubai Debt Freefall for US Futures, FTSE Closed for 3 Hours Due to Dubai Debt Problems Great Summary Article On Dubai’s Current Sovereign Debt Problems Additional Reference Material At the Bottom Links [...]
Links for 11/25/2009
Here are some links for today: News: Google Apologizes for Results of Mrs. Obama Search Israel Approves Temporary Freeze On Contruction IceBerg Dead Ahead…In New Zealand? Ahmadinejad Gets Full Venezuelan Support Against US “GodFather of Spam” Behind Bars “Glee” Unexpected Rise to Fame Comes at the Right Time Facebook to IPO with Dual Class shares [...]
Links for 11/23/2009
Here are some links for today: News: Chinese Drywall Causes Corrosion South Carolina Governor with 37 Charges of Ethics Financial: Dollar Is Effectively Worthless PIMCO sold $80B of MBS to US Fed What CDS Tells Us About Value of the Dollar Top 100 Most Active Cash Bonds Daily Credit Summary $44B 2-yr Auction @ closes [...]
Links for 11/20/2009
Here are some links for today: News: List of Largest Black Market Products What are You Getting From The Black Market Jobless Rate Up in 29 states Five Florida men Get Prison For Al Qaeda Terrorist Plot Finance: Geithner Gets Pwnd By Representative During Hearing Credit Card Contract So Simple, A 10th Grader Could Understand [...]
Links for 11/19/2009
Here are some links for today: News: Underaged Kids Busted For Drinking From Facebook Pics Oprah Winfrey Announces Show’s End In 2011 3 New Species of Crocodiles Unearthed from 100M Years Ago In Africa Deadly Flu Spreads Across Ukraine — 375 Dead In A Month — Detailed Explanation and P0tential Genetic Engineering Financials: 640,000 job [...]
Links For 11/18/2009
Here are some links for today: News: Army Corps’ of Engineers Liable For Hurricane Katrina Flooding Senate Unveils Healthcare Bill To Reach 30M More People at $849B over 10 years Financial: Pensions, Retirements Trouble The Global Goldman’s Shenanigans Equal Fed Transparency? NYFRB To Purchase Agency Bonds / MBS US Gov Wants to IPO GM Quickly [...]
Links for 11/17/2009
Here are some links for the past few days…I’ve been really busy: Financials: 5% of Taxpayers Account for 60.6% of Taxes Buffett & Goldman Plan To Fund 1000s of CIT business clients Moody’s CMBS Tracker Hits Decade High Mexico Downgraded By Fitch to BBB Senseless Futures Actions Caused By HFT Currency Schemes And Weak Recoveries [...]
Links for 11/13/2009
Here are my links for 11/13/2009: Financial: Sovereign Risk Begins To Uptick GS Weekly Charts Restructured Loans Reduced from 100% to 50% Risk-Weighting Obama Warns World Not To Depend On US Consumer Consumer Confidence Down to 66 from 70.6 Daily Highlights For Today Bank Failures #121 & #122 Bank Failure #123 Some Other Good Links [...]
Can Quantum Mechanics Explain Luck?
Don’t you ever wonder why good things happen to bad people? Or why when you have one thing go wrong, everything seems to go wrong? Most people attribute this to “luck” or “kharma”. We use phrases like “I got up on the wrong side of the bed today.” And a lot of times, people attribute [...]
Links for 11/11/2009
Here are Links for 11/11/2009: News: Summary of Health Care Reform Thus Far AMA States Marijuana Should be Reconsidered For Further Research One-year later and cell phone/tumor debacle continues Financials: Gold is the Next Bubble? Perhaps, it’s small market cap & large rush might suggest so… Bank Of England Predicts Faster Growth, More Volatility & [...]
Links for 11/10/2009
Here are some links for 11/10/2009: News: Mudslide kills 130 in El Salvador Obama’s Change For School Systems How Does Lethal Injection Work? Ahmadinejad’s Point Of View Health: EPA States Mercury-Tainted Fish in 49% of US Lakes Financial: A great beginner’s guide to options spread tactics China Begins Relationship With Malaysia for palm oil & [...]