When value goes out of style

By James Kwak

Do very wealthy CEOs yank potential wage gains away from median-like workers?  The excellent Adam Ozimek writes to me:

I’m fascinated by the economics of the Al Jazeera acquisition of Current TV, at an eye-popping price of roughly half a billion dollars. That’s about $12,000 for each of Current TV’s 42,000 nightly viewers.

World-Beating China Rally Doomed by PetroChina’s Hong Kong Gap

Avik S. A. Roy There have been, of course, a lot of pixels spilt in the Great Contraception Debate of 2012. But I want to talk about an underappreciated aspect of the story: how the new federal rule forcing all insurers to cover birth control will dramatically inflate the price of contraceptives.

By David Trainer: The all-cap growth style ranks fifth out of the twelve fund styles as detailed in my style roadmap. It earns my Neutral rating, which is based on aggregation of ratings of 2 ETFs and 436 mutual funds in the all-cap growth style as of July 18, 2012.

By David Trainer:The all-cap growth invest­ment style ranks fifth out of the twelve fund styles as detailed in style roadmap. It gets my Neu­tral rat­ing, which is based on aggre­gation of my rat­ings on 465 all-cap growth funds. Reports on the Best & Worst funds in every style and sec­tor are here.