September 2012

What’s the Biggest Threat for Markets Now?

Joe “Lil Weezy” Weisenthal hit me up this morning for crowd-sourced post on what might be the most worrisome thing for markets in the near future. I said China at the beginning of this year and I still think that’s the biggest unknown. Here’s what I told Business Insider: *** Recent signals out of Europe…

As a Standalone Company, iPhone Would Be Bigger than Microsoft

Pretty amazing statistic from The Economist the other day: Since the launch of the original iPhone in 2007, it has brought in $150 billion in sales revenue, with $74 billion of that in the past year. The iPhone is Apple’s biggest product, accounting for 53% of the company’s revenue. Indeed, if the iPhone were spun out as a separate…

and then we erased 2008.

Here it is, that No F***ing Way moment where the stock market picks up right where it left off five years ago as though nothing ever happened.