Joe Petviashvili

“Almost everything that could is going wrong for world stockmarkets”

“Kainer and Wei presented a price-to-rent ratio using the OFHEO house price index and the Owners' Equivalent Rent (OER) from the BLS.”

Simple strategy game that teaches important financial concepts. The only way to win big is to save and ignore the glitter.

“This was “first let’s kill all the speculators” week on Capitol Hill, and it was not a pretty sight. On Monday, the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee held an eight-hour hearing (!), the sole purpose of which was to decry more...

As you know, market selection for the entire fund is guided by a proprietary investing tool we like to call ``a dartboard.'' Once the asset classes are decided, individual security selections are generated by digitizing our unique hexagonal cuboid models. more...

“100% Kelly strategy marks the boundary between aggressive and insane investing”

Statistical Mechanics of Money, Income, and Wealth. In a closed economic system, money is conserved. Thus, by analogy with energy, the equilibrium probability distribution of money must follow the exponential Gibbs law characterized by an effective temperature equal to the more...

Israeli eToro is taking a novel approach in simplifying Foreign Exchange (Forex) trading by packaging the complicated concepts involved in trading one currency against another, in fun non-threatening wrappers.

So the question “how can I repay a loan with interest; where does the extra money come from?” becomes “how can someone give back more wealth than they were loaned; where does the extra wealth come from?”.

“Although I have been told that I’m stupid for doing so, I often find that it makes financial sense to go against the crowd.”

“With the dour state of the economy, would you be at all interested in investing ten-grand in a portfolio that returned 45% last year? If it was the Google Finance portfolio described in a previous blog, it wouldn’t be doing more...

"Can you provide some more color as to what you are doing for your supply chain initiatives to reduce manufacturing costs per hectoliter, as you originally promised $150 million in synergy or savings to decrease working capital?"

Yahoo Finance Google finance etc all their postings in the forums are nothing more than short twitter messages. I don’t see why twitter doesn’t enter this space and own it. The CPM’s are among the highest paying on the internet more...

reluctantly discarded the notion of my continuing to manage the portfolio after my death abandoning my hope to give new meaning to the term “thinking outside the box.”

“weird story of the QQ, a virtual currency from a Chinese social software company that turned into a real-world currency that threatens to destabilize the national currency of China”