Hot Links: Flavor Wave

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning…

Stephen Pope: “The gain in ISM and the good vibrations coming from large corporations will…not may…but will entice other employers to increase payrolls.”  (Forbes)

Morgan Stanley’s 5 Investment Themes for 2011.  (PragCap)

Tadas on blogging and building brand, good stuff.  (AbnormalReturns)

Byron Wein’s prediction list isn’t just idiotic – it may have actually cost Blackstone big money.  (ZeroHedge)

Why David Merkel went the asset managment route instead of starting a hedge fund.  (AlephBlog)

Starbucks has a new logo; I suggested it be a kid a tearing up his college degree and just accepting the green apron.  They went in a different direction.  (NYP)

On the prospects of a 2011 LinkedIn IPO.  (DailyFinance)

Mr. T’s Flavor Wave Oven and other bizarre celebrity endorsements.  (BSchool)

53 Things I learned From Howard Lindzon.  (AltucherConfidential)

My WSJ linkfest for financial advisors.  (WSJFA)