Thursdays Caught on the Web

By Lauren Mills

Things that caught our eye around the finance and business-related web. Think youve got something for tomorrows list? Email Lauren Mills or direct message us on Twitter @wsjthesource

The talks involving those who run our biggest banks, on how to take the sting out of criticisms of the bonuses theyre to pay their top people in the new year, have moved to a new phase.

No national security strategy is complete in the long run without promoting global health, political freedom and economic progress. Stirring stuff.

Where to invest next, maybe. I am trying to be defensive.  I don’t have a lot of faith in the market as a whole, so I am [. ] looking for mean-reversion, rather than momentum persisting.

Another great cartoon, this time explaining all you needed to know about making money. In short: Buy the [expletive removed] dip. Hilarious.

Feb 5, 2010

7:59 AM GMT

Fridays Caught On The Web

By Lauren Mills

Things that caught our eye around the finance and business-related web. Think youve got something for tomorrows list? Email Lauren Mills or direct message us on Twitter @wsjthesource

Civilizations grow in complexity given the right circumstances. And all too often they end up collapsing. History is replete with examples

So its ging to be a U-shaped recession according to Goldman gurus.

More fodder for people that believe bankers control the world.

(via WSJ.com) A perusal of N.Y. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s complaint against former Bank of America CEO Kenneth Lewis and former finance chief Joe Price seems to support Thain’s version of the events surrounding BofA’s troubled acquisition of Merrill Lynch.

(via Reuters) In The Black Swan, Nassim Taleb explains his barbell investment strategy Today, he’s saying something rather different.

The BBCs Robert Peston says were about to have official confirmation of one of the biggest-ever losses on a private equity investment. Poor EMI.

Jan 14, 2010

6:58 AM GMT

Markets Need More Owners, Fewer Renters

By David Cottle

Hands up all those of you whove ever done anything in a rented car you wouldnt dream of doing in your own. Ah yes, thought as much.

Now were not talking about armed robberies or breaks for the border here. Respectable Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones subscribers dont go in for that sort of thing.

But, still, rented heaps see more reckless acceleration, handbrake turns and juddering halts than cars we own ever will. Because we care about them less. And perhaps we dont care about them at all. As long as we hand them back looking shiny, no embarrassing questions will be asked.

This is pertinent because stock markets could perhaps do with more owners than renters now. If we are going to believe in equitys future we need to see more investors prepared to be in there for the long haul

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