{"id":13484,"date":"2011-05-25T01:00:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T05:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=13484"},"modified":"2011-05-25T01:00:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T05:00:02","slug":"links-for-may-25th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/25\/links-for-may-25th-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Reading for May 25th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for May 25th :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/linkedin-investors-need-to-do-the-math-2011-05-24?Link=obinsite\">LinkedIn investors need to do the math Mark Hulbert &#8211; MarketWatch<\/a> &#8211; Here is today&rsquo;s math quiz:&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\nHow fast must LinkedIn&rsquo;s earnings grow to justify its current price?&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\nThe answer is a matter of simple mathematics. And yet, few have bothered to do the calculations.&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\nWhich is surprising. You can debate forever where you think LinkedIn&rsquo;s stock should be trading, but one thing LinkedIn cannot do is overcome the laws of arithmetic.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/what-the-insiders-are-telling-us-2011-05-25?siteid=rss&amp;rss=1\">What the insiders are telling us Mark Hulbert &#8211; MarketWatch<\/a> &#8211; CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) &mdash; It&rsquo;s hard to put a smiley face on the stock market&rsquo;s recent correction, which has already caused the month of May to be the worst for equities since last August.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-05-24\/goldman-s-big-short-is-levin-s-big-target.html\">Goldman&rsquo;s Big Short Is Levin&rsquo;s Big Target &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a> &#8211; It has been almost a year since Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) agreed to pay $550 million in a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the creation and sale of Abacus 2007-AC1, a squirrelly synthetic collateralized-debt obligation that could only have been designed in the first decade of the new millennium. Now the firm is facing a whole new round of litigation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-05-24\/zynga-is-said-to-plan-an-initial-share-sale-by-end-of-june.html\">Zynga Is Said to Plan IPO by End of June &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a> &#8211; Zynga Inc., the biggest maker of games on Facebook, may file for an initial public offering by the end of June to capitalize on investors&rsquo; demand for shares of social-media startups, a person familiar with the plans said.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-05-24\/chanos-says-hedge-fund-may-not-be-bearish-enough-on-chinese-real-estate.html\">Chinese Stocks in U.S. Plunge on Accounting &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a> &#8211; Jim Chanos, the hedge-fund manager known for predicting Enron Corp.&rsquo;s 2001 collapse, says he&rsquo;d short sell Chinese companies listed in the U.S. if it were feasible to borrow shares to open the bearish positions.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.delicious.com\/v2\/rss\/andrewblogger\">500 Internal Server Error<\/a> &#8211; 500 Internal Server Error<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for May 25th : LinkedIn investors need to do the math Mark Hulbert &#8211; MarketWatch &#8211; Here is today&rsquo;s math quiz:&lt;br \/&gt; &lt;br \/&gt; How fast must LinkedIn&rsquo;s earnings grow to justify its current price?&lt;br \/&gt; &lt;br \/&gt; The answer is a matter of simple mathematics. 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