The Daily Blog Watch

07/18/06 - 07:52 AM EDT

James Altucher

Editor's note: Every morning, James Altucher presents the most timely, topical posts from the Web's best business blogs. As always, let us know what you think.

Econbrowser asks if the Fed is done yet and provides some answers.


Dealbreaker points out the yacht that venture capital built.


The Internet Stock Blog looks at all of Yahoo's! (YHOO Quote) business models and then throws up the comparables and makes the recommendation that I agree with. Meanwhile, TechCrunch looks at the new Yahoo! home page.


247WallSt notices the NYMEX IPO filing.


10Q Detective analyzes nanotech biotech cancer-fighting stock Abraxis (ABBI Quote)).


How many YouTubes do we need? There's YouTube, MetaCafe, Break, Lulu.tv and now GigaOM reports that blip.tv just raised a VC round. I wonder, though, if it's like the restaurant business. In other words, just because at some point there were 15 restaurants in the world didn't stop people from making another million restaurants.


Tim Oren's Due Diligence asks the question, can eBay (EBAY Quote) turn into an investment bank? And Mine That Data asks, is eBay now a mature business?


Everything has gone wrong for India in the past few months: Market crashing, terrorism, etc. Value Stock Plus though, argues that now is the time to dive in, and it gives the reasons.


The Skeptical Speculation looks at the bright side.


If you can't afford an NBA basketball team you still might be able to buy a minor league basketball team.


Sirius (SIRI Quote) catching up to XM (XMSR Quote)).


With a huge influx of new ETFs hitting the market, Experiments in Finance guides the investor on four things to look for before investing in an ETF.


Please. Please make my childhood dream come true. Or this one.


The Life of a sales guy at a hedge fund.


This is like a horror movie. Oh yeah, and I was jealous.

At the time of publication, Altucher and/or his fund had no positions in stocks mentioned, although positions may change at any time.

James Altucher is a managing partner at Formula Capital, an alternative asset management firm that runs several quantitative-based hedge funds as well as a fund of hedge funds. He is also the author of Trade Like a Hedge Fund and Trade Like Warren Buffett. Under no circumstances does the information in this column represent a recommendation to buy or sell stocks. Altucher appreciates your feedback; click here to send him an email.

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