Most Accessed Articles in a Journal

In case you wanted to see the most accessed articles in a particular journal, go to JSTOR and you can select this option. You'll have to do a search first and click on a record and then you'll see this.

Purpose: to see what the greatest hits of economics are! 

Grumpy Old Accountants Blog

Looks like one of my favorite blogs has a new location here.

Grumpy Accountants blog is a great place to see generational differences in accounting concepts. Today's creative and aggressive accounting (increasingly non GAAP too!) looks like fraud, legerdemain and chicanery to an older generation. And I imagine the young generation finds the grumpy accountants out of touch and backwards.

So what is an asset, proper forward guidance, true accounting of sales, the value of an asset and more?  Makes for some interesting reading.

Matt Taibbi: The Price of Everything is Rigged

Matt Taibbi recently wrote a great piece called Everything is Rigged.

We now know that interest rates set by LIBOR were in fact, rigged. That affects your mortgage, credit card debt and more. And there's suspicion that oil prices, gold and more might be involved.

Real Estate Sales And Home Values

 Trulia gives you the number of homes for sale and their asking price. You enter in the zip code and it gives you a couple of graphs once you scroll down.

Simply Map gives you the average value of the homes in a certain location - zip code, county, metro area and more.

More Data Cuts - US Might Stop Tracking a Measure of Inflation

From the article: "The Labor Department is weighing cuts to a program tracking import and export prices, a cost-saving move that could alter major gauges of U.S. inflation and economic output, according to people familiar with the matter."

Business At The Movies: Wall Street - Greed Is Good Speech

Hereis the famous Greed Is Good speech from the classic movie Wall Street. Wall Street power player Gordon Gekko explains the prevailing mentality that greed leads to greater efficiencies in the economy.

Financial Deals and Mergers

In Marketline Advantage you can search Financial Deals (which includes mergers) by company or industry.

Search your terms/company and get some results. Then select Financial Deals to the right.

Then look over to the right side of the screen. Even more options!