Every weekend, we write a posting that summarizes interesting things happening in the blogosphere. Here is the list of what’s happening this week.

Intelligent Speculator has a series of “Google’s next billion dollar business”. How about getting more profits from Google’s free services, such as YouTube and Android? He also mentioned the possibility of Google to become financial data provider and financial research.

Canadian Couch Potato has two postings about tracking errors on Canadian ETFs. His analysis on iShares ETFs can be found here; while his analysis on Claymore ETFS can be found here.

Michael Johnston from EtfDatabase gave his takes on five important metrics to consider before purchasing ETF, i.e. 1) expense ratio, 2) index methodology, 3) depth of holdings, 4) tracking error and 5) tax efficiency.

The Big Picture is comparing anatomy of a crash: 2009 vs 1907. It suggests that we’ll have a big correction and then go side ways for about 2 years.

Canadian Capitalist had a peek on Warren Buffett’s personal portfolio. Apparently Buffett is holding mostly US large-cap companies that pay dividend.

It’s end of the week again. Every weekend, we write a posting that summarizes interesting things happening in the blogosphere.

Marketplace published a video explaining about CLO (Collateralized Loan Obligations) by Paddy Hirsch. Want to know more about CLO, CDO (Collateralized Debt Obligations) or CMO (Collateralized Mortgage Obligations)?

The Financial Blogger presented the richest country in the world in terms of GDP per capita. Apparently, the “richest country” is Qatar, followed by Luxembourg and Norway.

Intelligent Speculator had his ETF picks for BRIC countries. His picks are BIK, EEB, BKF, BRIS and BRIL.

Million Dollar Journey explained how capital gains tax work within a corporation. How to extract money from a corporation in a tax efficient manner?

Canadian Capitalist had a brilliant posting on how to convert from Canadian Dollar to US Dollar (and vice versa) in a cheap way, i.e. by buying buying stocks in TSX and sell the same stocks in NYSE.