Michael Cook of SouthernSun Small Cap Fund Offers His Top Picks
Written by Barron's Most Emailed TodayInvesting in innovative U.S. manufacturers profiting from the world's growing appetite for more nutritious food and many other items has helped plump up returns for Michael Cook, the 54-year-old head of SouthernSun Small Cap [1] .
The Memphis-based mutual fund (ticker: SSSFX) generally has selected a number of domestic companies, some food-related
...David Dayen: SEC Convenes Foot-Dragging Roundtable on Rating Agency Reform, While Securities Issuers Return to Familiar Rating-Shopping Tricks
Written by David DayenBy David Dayen, a lapsed blogger, now a freelance writer based in Los Angeles, CA. Follow him on Twitter @ddayen
A few months ago, I wrote a story for The American Prospect about the credit rating agencies, and their thus-far successful effort to ward off any change to their business model, despite their wretched performance during the crisis....
Dan Kervick: Did the House of Representatives Just (Unintentionally) Eliminate the Debt Ceiling?
Written by David DayenDave here. This comes from the same group of people, generally speaking, that brought us the trillion-dollar coin, so buckle in with the full expectation of the same boldness of thought.
By Dan Kervick, who does research in decision theory and analytic metaphysics. Cross posted from New Economic Perspectives
My fellow NEP blogger Joe Firestone wrot...
Nathaniel Cline and Nathan Tankus: Fiscal Systems, Organizational Capacity, and Crisis: A Political Balance of Payments Approach
Written by David DayenBy Nathaniel Cline and Nathan Tankus, a student and research assistant at the University of Ottawa. You can follow him on Twitter at @NathanTankus . Cross-posted from INET .
Organizational capacity
In the preface to the forthcoming Festschrift to Alain Parguez, Mosler argues that in the mid 1990s he thought, “the theory of the monetary circuit was...
By David Dayen, a lapsed blogger, now a freelance writer based in Los Angeles, CA. Follow him on Twitter @ddayen
The new CBO budget projections showing debt stabilization over the next decade and a reduction of the expected FY 2013 deficit to $642 billion hasn’t been deemed by Washington as a “scandal,” although falling deficits...
European Factors to Watch-Shares seen edging lower
Written by Reuters: Company NewsBrain Training May Help Clear Cognitive Fog Caused by Chemotherapy
Written by MIT Technology ReviewThe mental fuzziness induced by cancer treatment could be eased by cognitive exercises performed online, say researchers.
Cancer survivors sometimes suffer from a condition known as “chemo fog”—a cognitive impairment caused by repeated chemotherapy. A study hints at a controversial idea: that brain...
Smartphone Tracker Gives Doctors Remote Viewing Powers
Written by MIT Technology ReviewHere’s the smartphone technology that alerts a doctor when patients are headed for trouble.
At the Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, nurses can see into the lives of some diabetes patients even when they’re not at the clinic. If a specific patient starts acting lethargic, or m...
Brain Training Helps Clear Cognitive Fog Caused by Chemotherapy
Written by MIT Technology ReviewThe mental fuzziness induced by cancer treatment could be eased by cognitive exercises performed online, say researchers.
Long-term cancer survivors who use a brain-training program for 12 weeks are more cognitively flexible, verbally fluent and are faster thinkers than survivors who did not...