Condor Options

1 – What Will Happen in 2008

(tags: bearish hedge options volatility etf society election market economy rates fed predictions)

2 – The Aleph Blog » Blog Archive » Looking Beyond the Three Percent Horizon

Five months have passed since my 3% sometime in 2008 call was made, and now it is becoming the received orthodoxy. That’s why I have to ask what is wrong with it, or better, what is the next phase beyond it?

(tags: markets economy rates fed)

3 – Paul Kedrosky: Human Computation in Capital Markets & Elsewhere

When price is an inverse function of liquidity and liquidity is an inverse function of price certainty, the recursive loop can only be broken by human intervention and action.

(tags: markets risk complexity liquidity quant)

4 – Oddly Enough | Africa – Reuters.com

The names of three banks and the word “stocks” beat “sex” to become four of the most Googled words in China last year, according to a Google China list seen on Thursday.

(tags: google china sex stocks)

5 – 20 Surprises for 2008 – News & Analysis – Investing – GE – RIMM

(tags: predictions 2008 markets economy)

6 – Wellington Grey — Miscellanea — Alcoholic Chess

genius chess drinking game

(tags: drink chess)

7 – Financial Armageddon: Fading Fast?

Living standards in Britain are set to rise above those in America for the first time since the 19th century, according to a report by the respected Oxford Economics consultancy.

(tags: society economy uk us)

8 – Bespoke Investment Group: ETF Fever

This weekend’s WSJ featured an article on how ETFs investing in gold have increased demand for the metal. According to the article, streetTracks Gold Shares ETF (GLD) now holds more gold than the People’s Bank of China and the European Central Bank. In

(tags: bearish gld gold etf)