Hot Links: Freaking Out

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning…

Gwen Robinson on the state of the IPO market this spring, great stuff here:  (FTAlphaville)

Pimco betting on some currencies and betting against others, here’s a rundown.  (InvestmentNews)

Here’s Meredith!  “Trust me guys, my muni call is still money.”  (Bloomberg)

Did anyone NAIL the silver sell-off?  Erik at Market Anthropology did.  (MarketAnthropology)

Peter Brandt: Silver’s nothing special, it’s just another commodity.  (PeterBrandt)

Lauren LaCapra: Goldman is “freaking out” over the Volcker Rule.  (BaltimoreSun)

Eli Radke on fixing what’s broken.  (TradingHabits)

OK, now Merkel agrees with me that individuals should buy their own stocks.  I think.  I’ve lost track.  (AlephBlog)

May starts off with three consecutive down days for the S&P 500.  This doesn’t happen very often…  (TBP)

The Chinese economy as “an elephant riding a bicycle”.  (beyondbrics)

LOVE this story about Def Leppard’s Hysteria and why being the number one album doesn’t mean much anymore.  (AVClub)

My daily linkfest for financial advisors is killer this morning, check it out:  (WSJFA)