I’m Reading…Interesting coins news today. Laura Bush unveiled the 2008 First Spouse coin designs today in a ceremony celebrating the release of the Dolley Madison coins, the fourth in the First Spouse series. From the US Mint Website: Washington, D.C. – Director of the United States Mint Ed Moy joined Mrs. Laura Bush in the White [...]
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In case you are interested in buying original, brilliant uncirculated (BU) bank rolls of the new 2007 “D” James Madison Presidential $1 Dollar Coins, they are now up on eBay. You can buy them here. In case you are interested, I have rolls of all four of the 2007 Presidential Dollar Coins up on eBay, [...]
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One of the things I love about travel is that I tend to get a chance to catch up on back issues of Scientific American. This trip is no exception. Over lunch, I read an article in the June 2007 issue called “The Traveler’s Dilemma”, by Kaushik Basu. In it he explains research on why [...]
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Wow, people are really panicked. Here’s what happened. Yesterday, Citigroup analyst Prashant Bhatia wrote an extremely negative report on E*Trade based on their announcement of exposure to mortgage securities where he put the likelihood of bankruptcy at 15%. How he calculated this, I don’t know. Maybe he estimated their exposure and risk curve for their [...]
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Who knew David Pogue was a funny guy? This video cracked me up.
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You heard it here first. The US Mint website has been updated with a slight change to the release date of the Dolley Madison first spouse gold coin. Instead of being released on November 15th, like the James Madison dollar coins, Dolley will be joining us the following week. Here is the last of the [...]
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The launch was on Friday, November 9th. According to the press release: LISLE, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Claymore Securities, Inc, today announced the launch of the Claymore/Clear Global Timber Index ETF (AMEX: CUT – News) on the American Stock Exchange. This is the first U.S.-listed global timber ETF to offer investors exposure to the timber asset class and [...]
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I forgot to mention it here, but last night I began a multi-day tour of a few business school events out on the East Coast. I began by flying out on JetBlue on the red eye to be on a panel on Social Networking at the HBS Cyberposium 2007 event in Cambridge, MA. Despite only [...]
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That’s right, coin fans. The 4th coin in the Presidential $1 Dollar Coin series will soon be available, and in banks on November 15th. The US Mint has a blurb up now, and will have bags and coins of collector versions ready for sale at the US Mint website. Of course, these coins are already [...]
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Since I got some attention with my last post, here is the YouTube video put out to explain why the Writers Guild of America is striking. The argument in the video is largely predicated on what other artists get (authors, song writers), as well as the idea that there was an agreement to raise residual [...]
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This post was inspired by a short, two line snippet in John Lilly’s blog today. There has been a lot of press about the current writers’ strike, and it’s impact on TV this fall. I hadn’t originally planned to write anything about it here, but one comment in John’s blog made me think (italics are [...]
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The video from Campfire One, the launch event for Open Social last night at the Google campus is now live. The demo that Elliot & I give for LinkedIn is about 38:30 into the video (or 18:55 from the end, if you have the timer set up to run backwards). It’s a good thing there [...]
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I think you can tell from the title why the marketing team at LinkedIn keeps a close eye on me. This week has been extremely busy… a lot of press attention already to the LinkedIn partnership with Google on the new Open Social APIs. Since this is my personal blog, I thought I’d just flag [...]
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