The DIY Economist

[This summer](http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$SPX&p=D&b=5&g=0&id=p93656017256) would probably be known as one where investors remember that there is such a thing as "too much of a good thing" -- I mean, of course, complex financial instruments and high priced small, risky assets. Therefore, I'm taking the necessary steps to put some armor on my portfolio for the next foresseable few ...

So while looking at the most recent yield curve (partially inverted), I thought of the time when I tried to convince my parents to lock in a 5-year CD around August. So they went to the bank, where they were greeted by a bank ad for (of course) those 3-month or 6-month CD's. In fact, the ...

So while you were away, I had some fun programming some Excel worksheets. Courtesy of Global Financial Data, of course. 1. Yield Curve tool. This is monthly, and goes WAY back to the wee years of 1953. Beat that :p http://www.diyeconomist.com;/wp/downloads/yieldcurve.xls;Yield Curve Tool; 2. EAFE-SPX (with a little Nikkei data thrown in) portfolio weigher and correlation ...

Well, I just bought a used copy of Active Portfolio Management, a fairly dense 596 page treatise on just what active management is supposed to do. Handy for research probably. From the reviews, it seems to cover a broad array of topics ranging from "risk aversion, the Capital Market Line, the Markowitz Portfolio Selection Model, the ...

I've been making optimizations in the background, but by far the greatest is diabling lightbox and enabling gzip. Site should load in 4 seconds flat. 56kers should get the site in 8 sec if your browser supports gzip (most modern browsers do).