Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Activity tagged “finance”

Bookmarks

The Money Meltdown

Really good roundup of links to info about what the fuck's going on.

(2008, business, economics, finance, money, moneymeltdown, reference)

[PDF] ABS and CDOs: Record Performance Continues

A JP Morgan prospectus from December 2004 covering CDOs. This actually explains pretty well why these investments were so hot: BBB-class CDOs were paying out at 3% above LIBOR (about 8% total). That's an amazing return on something rated so well. I'd have bought, too.

(cdo, finance, greedybastards, markets, money, via:metafilter)

Buying a Car: Introduction [Fool.com: Buying a Car]

The usual excellent advice from the Fool, this time on buying a car. I'm not sure I'm enough of a hard-ass to follow this advice 100%, but it's nonetheless great.

(advice, cars, finance, shopping)

Wheaties for Your Wallet » Blog Archive » Your bank has a REST API now (shhh! — don’t tell them)

Wesabe now has an API. Wahoo!

(api, finance, rest, wesabe)

django-beancounter - Google Code

Cute name; cool tool.

(accounting, django, finance, plotkit)

Wesabe

Fucking incredible; I've been wanting an app like this for years. Well done!

(finance, money, social)