Tradestreaming Cascade: All the news you need to know (Week of October 30, 2011)

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Personal Capital ventures into online advice arena (Investment News)
Posted October 30, 2011

Personal capital is taking the traditional advisory model and delivering through the online channel.  Taking aim at the technology-empowered hybrid of DIY investor looking for professional advice.

Eliminate leveraged ETFs (Aleph Blog)
Posted October 29, 2011

Part of a growing trend rejecting leveraged ETF products, David Merkel believes they should be banned because they don’t provide any long term value.

I have never pushed a taxi medallions…on anyone (Metafilter)
Posted October 24, 2011

Two taxi medallions sold for over $1m a piece this week.  This posting has links to the current flurry of activity surrounding an asset that’s returned 16% a year for the past 60 years. Continue reading “Tradestreaming Cascade: All the news you need to know (Week of October 30, 2011)”