{"id":8936,"date":"2010-03-30T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=8936"},"modified":"2010-03-30T12:00:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:00:04","slug":"links-for-march-30th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/30\/links-for-march-30th\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Reading for March 30th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for March 30th :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/8595298.stm\">BBC News &#8211; German economic growth projection cut by IMF<\/a> &#8211; The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its 2010 growth projection for the German economy.&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\nThe IMF now expects Europe&#39;s largest economy to grow by 1.2% this year, down from its previous estimate of 1.5%.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/30\/case-shiller-still-moving-lower-how-much-is-a-home-really-worth\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedisciplinedinvestor%2FEBHR+%28The+Disciplined+Investor%29\">Case-Shiller: Still Moving Lower, How Much is A Home Really Worth? : The Disciplined Investor<\/a> &#8211; We saw year over year number down again ( although better than we have seen before and monthly numbers actually tick up slightly).&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\nJanuary S&amp;P\/Case Shiller Composite-20 Y\/Y -0.7% vs -0.7% consensus, prior -3.1%&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\nHere is what the value of a house looks like using the monthly data of the Case-Shiller Report&hellip;. (30% lower would be the average valuation destruction&hellip;)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=ai6VEMxhg00E&amp;pos=5\">SEC Will Ask Lehman Rivals Whether They Used `Repo 105s&#8217; to Mask Leverage<\/a> &#8211; And they will say NO and then the SEC will beleive them and all will be fine&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/firstread.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2010\/03\/29\/2245093.aspx\">Risqu&eacute; Business &#8211; First Read &#8211; msnbc.com<\/a> &#8211; First Read has verified some of the charges the Republican National Committee approved in its March Monthly report, including almost $2,000 spent at a sex-themed nightclub in West Hollywood, as well as more than $15,000 spent at ritzy Beverly Hills hotels.&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\nFirst Read also found more than $1,500 in &quot;equipment rental&quot; charges from &quot;Casino Parties&quot; in Tampa, FL.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/finance\/news\/rss\/story\/*http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/finance\/news\/topnews\/*http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/ap\/100329\/as_japan_economy.html\">Japan retail sales rise 4.2 percent in February (AP)<\/a> &#8211; Nice.,.. Best in years it seems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for March 30th : BBC News &#8211; German economic growth projection cut by IMF &#8211; The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its 2010 growth projection for the German economy.&lt;br \/&gt; &lt;br \/&gt; The IMF now expects Europe&#39;s largest economy to grow by 1.2% this year, down [&hellip;]<\/p>\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":[262],"tags":[218,483],"class_list":["post-8936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/8936","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=8936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}