ShareMark Mobius is one of the most famous Emerging Markets investors and right now he is bullish on Emerging Markets despite a huge rally in shares from late last year. Mobius turned bullish right as shares troughed and has remained so ever since.
Mobius likes the so-called ‘Frontier’ Markets more than the well established BRICs.  [...]

ShareBelow is a video released by the Kauffman Foundation about bloggers in the econ and finance space.  The video shows that our space is really catching on and garnering ever more readership and credibility.
This clip runs about 20 minutes and features Tyler Cowen and Mark Thoma, two well-known academics who also have top economic [...]

ShareIn the video below, William Black, a well-known Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri – Kansas City and former top regulator at of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board during the S&L crisis, holds court.
His basic premise: the bailouts have been a massive transfer of wealth from the middle class [...]

ShareUpdate: These clips have sadly been removed from YouTube.
Clips from the 1987 PBS Film called Trader featuring famed investor Paul Tudor Jones are catching everyone’s imagination all of a sudden.  Is it that we are all secretly worried about a sock market crash?  Who knows.  It’s entertaining nonetheless and is a good piece of financial [...]

ShareBelow is a very good hour-long interview I spied earlier today with Janet Tavakoli, the author of a new book ”Dear Mr. Buffett.”  Hat tip Zero Hedge.
I also linked out earlier today to a piece she wrote over at CNN on “What Wall Street owes you.”  Take a look.

Source
C-Span Q&A, 19 April 2009 Transcript

ShareI have highlighted comments by famed Columbia University economist Jagdish Bhagwati before (see “Jagdish Bhagwati: Obama is a protectionist”).  Bhagwati has since gotten with the program and sees Obama in a much more favourable light.  However, he is sceptical because Obama has not said boo about free trade.
Now Bhagwati is turning his attention away [...]

ShareHere is a clip from the Daily Show with Jon Stewart that highlights Lenny Dykstra, the former baseball player turned financial guru.  To my mind, it really puts the bubble years into perspective.

By the way, I am a Boston Red Sox fan. And, in 1986, when the hated New York Mets beat us in the [...]

ShareI love this guy. If you are looking for a guy who is super bearish on the U.S., then David Tice is your man.  He sees unemployment at 15%, stocks well down from present levels and a serious Depression with a Capital-D in the offing.  In short, he’s talking about a financial and economic catastrophe.  [...]

ShareJim Cramer is not just calling a stock market bottom, but now he’s calling a housing bottom too.  In fact, he says go buy a house.  “Buy a house and buy Bank of America too?”  Cramer says: “This is patently obvious.”
Take a look and tell me what you think.  Personally, I know his stock picking [...]

ShareI found this story and video of Bill Black on Tech Ticker (hat tip Larry Doyle). Basically, Black thinks the stress tests were a joke, a common theme heard from those in the know. Listen to what he says about a really difficult stress test we gave Fannie Mac ten years ago.
Results of [...]