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Subject: Capital Market Taxonomy

Capital Market Taxonomy is an information classification system developed by John Oswin Schroy for Capital Market Wiki to categorize some types of general knowledge about financial and capital markets so that this information can be stored with minimum redundancy and easily recovered when needed. See: http://www.capital-market-wiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Help:Taxonomy.

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Crowd sourcing investment research

Free information bears the cost of time

Free, easily available investment information is largely unexploited. This is because there is too much of it.

Information, to be useful, must be processed. This processing has a time cost.

This article describes how new technology allows securities research to evolve beyond the industrial techniques of the 20th century.

Crowd sourcing and collaborative research, semantic wikis, and Capital Market Taxonomy are discussed in this article.

The inefficient market

Free information has a time cost

Is Neuberger Berman

The Crash of 2008 showed that the Efficient Market Hypothesis was fantasy. Although there is a huge amount of free information about investments available on the Internet, this takes time to extract and understand and time has a cost.

With too much free information, the law of diminishing returns kicks in. Critical information passes unnoticed.

Technologies are now available that allow us to take advantage of free information more effectively.

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An encyclopedia of world capital markets

Capital Market Wiki

Today, Capital Market Wiki has “gone public”, after thirty months of development effort. This is a free encyclopedia of world financial markets that anyone can edit, based on semantic wiki technology and Capital Market Taxonomy.

This non-profit project is sponsored by the Center for Capital Flow Analysis and addresses informational shortcomings in increasingly complex capital markets.

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Warren Buffett attacks buyback schemes

In the 2005 Berkshire-Hathaway annual report, Warren Buffet points to the unethical aspects of the buyback-option schemes so common in the US stock market. He noted that "Too often ... the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO’s pay. ... every dime paid out in dividends reduces the value of all outstanding options"
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Securities Analysis

Does ‘SEC Total Return’ protect investors?

Millions of investors put money for retirement into mutual funds selected on the basis of "SEC total returns" and the name of the fund. This article explains how the SEC allows funds to use this misleading statistic to the detriment of investors and to the benefit of fund managers. More ...

US Politics

Why Congress won't kill ACORN

Closely connected with President Obama, the ACORN group of "community organizers" has drawn censure from the Democrat-controlled Congress as a result of investigative reporting by James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles. More ...

US equities

GAO pooh-poohs a Boomer bust

In 2006, the GAO issued a report saying that the retirement of the Baby Boomers should not have a negative effect on stock prices. This article reviews the GAO reasoning and concludes that the conclusion is not credible. More ...

US Bonds

The collapse of the dollar and US bonds?

The extreme spending of the Obama government, combined with irresponsible bank lending policies promoted by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, portend rising interest rates, the collapse of the bond market, and the end of dollar supremacy. More ...

World Economy

Signs of US losing its groove?

Thirty years ago, US income from abroad was more than double the amount of income that the US paid to the rest of the world. This year, or the next, this foreign income surplus may disappear forever. Is the US 'losing its groove'? More ...

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