Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Not just tent cities anymore, more like a Tent Metropolis in Nashville, TN. (WSJ) The SEC kids were dropping off resumes after auditing Bernie Madoff. Nice. (NYP) Felix Salmon saw the Scariest Billboard of the Day in NYC yesterday. (Reuters) My favorite read of the week: Lunch and a discussion…
August 2009
Frank Langella Joins the Wall Street Sequel
This is cool, from Variety: Frank Langella set for ‘Wall Street 2’ Actor joins LaBeouf, Douglas in Stone sequel Frank Langella will join the cast of “Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps,” the Oliver Stone-directed sequel for 20th Century Fox. Shia LaBeouf stars with Michael Douglas, who’ll reprise his Gordon Gekko role. Josh Brolin is…
On the Plus Side…
A good way to look at all that “less bad” data we keep hearing about… Sources: Cagle.com
Droppin' Knowledge: Matt Horween Unleashed
You guys know how much I love righteous indignation as a writing style. Matt Horween of TheStreet.com is ladling it out thick for anyone with a bowl in his six part op-ed that will run every day this week, enitled Fix America Now. Yesterday’s opener was crackling with skepticism over our military expenses in the…
Hot Links: Imus, Hitchens & the Mancession
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Talk radio legend Don Imus is in talks with Fox Business. (LATimes) Wonk Wars: A recap of the regulation and markets debate between Greg Falkenstein and Justin Fox of CBS Money Watch. (Falkenblog) It’s official: Gawker is calling it the Mancession. LOL. (Gawker) These stocks actually dropped during the big…
Greg Michaels is Getting There…Be Patient
Let me spend a moment coming to the aid of Greg Michaels, not that he really needs me to. Greg is the new writer on Dealbreaker and since his Bambi-esque beginnings, learning to stand up on the wobbly legs of a newborn fawn, he’s shown steady progress on the site. His topics are getting more…
Squashing the Goldman Beef
You can always tell when you’re talking to someone who at one point in their career worked at Goldman Sachs. How? Simple. Within the first 5 minutes or so, they will begin a sentence with the phrase “When I was at Goldman,”. This is the real world equivalent of Anchorman‘s Ron Burgundy telling a girl…
Hot Links: Nat Gas, Mark Mobius & the NY Yankees
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Greenback’d posted the July mega-list of activist investor situations. Awesome. (Greenback’d) Piker gamblers hurting the casino business. (WSJ) Taobao.com is a monster of e-commerce in China. (NYT) Community newspapers doing ok, small is beautiful. (AP via YahooFinance) The 3 stages of a bear market illustrated. (InvestmentPostcards) My boy Todd Sullivan…
Torturing The Data Til It Screams
We all have at least one in our office. The guy who is quick to let you know that selling that call against Whole Foods Markets (WFMI) may be a mistake because supermarket stocks go higher on Thursdays after it rains in Akron, Ohio 77% of the time. The Data Miners. I’m cool with statistics…
Tudor Visions: Bear Market Rally in Stocks, More Weakness for Dollar
Paul Tudor Jones made some interesting observations in a letter to investors which Bloomberg picked up this weekend… On the Bear Market Rally: Slowing growth in China and the return of front-page stories on swine flu may be “further catalysts for global equity markets to pause in September”. “Impressive counter-trend rallies are a feature, not…
