Great Top 10 List of Occupy Wall Street Moments

To mark my first day as a StockTwits blogger, here’s a brief history of TheBasisPoint.

What’s next, a horse head in Monti’s bed?

Correcting a ‘no-cost refis are a scam’ article on Zillow.

Covering markets for consumers is harder than doing so for finance pros. You must simplify—but not oversimplify—complex concepts into terms everyone can understand. The exercise is best summed up in a fortune cookie phrase taped to my monitor: “It is a simple task to make things complex, but a complex task to make them simple.”

Pretty funny seeing this Economist cover when I got home last night. I took and published this same photo when I visited Occupy Wall Street 12 days ago, and I also did a Rage Against The Machine post last week.

Two days ago, CNNMoney ran this headline: The 4% Mortgage: Good Luck Getting One. I linked to it on my site and it was one of the most-clicked links of the week. So CNN gets credit for a good headline, but the story was full of misinformation.

I saw this picture on Barry Ritholtz’s blog and loved it. It was ‘via The Atlantic’ so I went and read the back story by The Atlantic’s political writer Conor Friedersdorf about how he originated the sign’s text. It’s a great read about how this went from Conor’s brain in NorCal (where I live) to [...]

In my latest piece for Mortgage News Daily, I explain the history of the word ‘Realtor’ (spoiler alert: it’s a trademark), and remind everyone who says the word with three syllables how wrong they are. Head on over: it’s a quick read, a few laughs, and some useful knowledge.

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