{"id":1837,"date":"2009-01-24T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2009-01-24T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T18:00:08","slug":"links-for-january-24th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/24\/links-for-january-24th\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Reading for January 24th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for January 24th :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/24\/business\/worldbusiness\/24euro.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Euro, Once a Boon, Is Now a Burden for Some &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; This is where the real problem lies with currency markets<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=atjH1jA2R6Ys\">Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor Lost as Much as $10 Million With Madoff, Lawyer Says<\/a> &#8211; She never met a man she did not like, until now<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=ath9NGzTQ0us\">Treasury 30-Year Bonds Post Biggest Weekly Loss Since 1987 on Debt Concern<\/a> &#8211; Nice! We invested a nice piece in $TBT and it paid off handsomely the last 2 weeks&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=agY9wr0CyVLM\">Washington Mutual Owes $12.5 Billion Taxes, IRS Says in Bankruptcy Case<\/a> &#8211; How they going to pay that? Oh yeah, you and me&#8230;..<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~r\/reuters\/businessNews\/~3\/C3MOwyVYSNg\/idUSTRE50N0AN20090124\">Microsoft CEO sees slow economic rebound: employees<\/a> &#8211; Balmer is no economist. If he was he would have planned better.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/story.aspx?guid=%7BD3CEEB6C-B7B4-47CF-B55B-2422A39E56F4%7D&amp;siteid=rss\">Capital One results suggest gloomy 2009 for credit card industry<\/a> &#8211; Amazing that it has taken this long to figure out that COF is in bad shape<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wsjonline.com\/~r\/wsj\/xml\/rss\/3_7014\/~3\/LHdQwCd9UAo\/SB123276077050012257.html\">Freddie Mac May Need $35 Billion<\/a> &#8211; MAY? MIGHT? COULD? PERHAPS? Come on&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=autqFMJezyUU\">Citigroup Plans to Raise $12 Billion in Largest FDIC-Guaranteed Bond Sale<\/a> &#8211; AHHHH, more money to the dogs&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are my links for January 23rd through January 24th:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/24\/business\/worldbusiness\/24euro.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Euro, Once a Boon, Is Now a Burden for Some &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; This is where the real problem lies with currency markets<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=atjH1jA2R6Ys\">Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor Lost as Much as $10 Million With Madoff, Lawyer Says<\/a> &#8211; She never met a man she did not like, until now<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=ath9NGzTQ0us\">Treasury 30-Year Bonds Post Biggest Weekly Loss Since 1987 on Debt Concern<\/a> &#8211; Nice! We invested a nice piece in $TBT and it paid off handsomely the last 2 weeks&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=agY9wr0CyVLM\">Washington Mutual Owes $12.5 Billion Taxes, IRS Says in Bankruptcy Case<\/a> &#8211; How they going to pay that? Oh yeah, you and me&#8230;..<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~r\/reuters\/businessNews\/~3\/C3MOwyVYSNg\/idUSTRE50N0AN20090124\">Microsoft CEO sees slow economic rebound: employees<\/a> &#8211; Balmer is no economist. If he was he would have planned better.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/story.aspx?guid=%7BD3CEEB6C-B7B4-47CF-B55B-2422A39E56F4%7D&amp;siteid=rss\">Capital One results suggest gloomy 2009 for credit card industry<\/a> &#8211; Amazing that it has taken this long to figure out that COF is in bad shape<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wsjonline.com\/~r\/wsj\/xml\/rss\/3_7014\/~3\/LHdQwCd9UAo\/SB123276077050012257.html\">Freddie Mac May Need $35 Billion<\/a> &#8211; MAY? MIGHT? COULD? PERHAPS? Come on&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=autqFMJezyUU\">Citigroup Plans to Raise $12 Billion in Largest FDIC-Guaranteed Bond Sale<\/a> &#8211; AHHHH, more money to the dogs&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,262],"tags":[218,483],"class_list":["post-1837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-markets","category-recentreads","tag-linkfest","tag-markets","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}