The “surgical strike” on Syria is looking more and more likely based on reports coming from virtually every direction this morning. Here’s NBC News: Missile strikes against Syria could be launched “as early as Thursday,” senior U.S. officials said Tuesday as the White House intensified its push toward an international response to the suspected use…

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The Wolf of Wall Street film is, at long last, almost here. Last summer, I explained why I was so excited to see it, see: The Wolf of Wall Street Cast Comes Together Also, the below primer just hit the web, it tells the story of why the movie took so long to make it…

Josh here, today I want to introduce you to Brian Gilmartin, the founder and portfolio manager at Trinity Asset Management based in Chicago. Brian’s been managing portfolios since 1995 and does a really great weekly summation of The Street’s forward earnings expectations on his blog Fundamentalis. Forward earnings expectations are very important for all traders…

Last night’s MTV VMA show was by far the worst one of all time. I’m of the MTV generation (the original one) and have watched every single year. Why? For twenty-something years the show served as a barometer for pop culture in the English-speaking world, much more so than any other annual program or awards…

Binyamin Appelbaum profiles the most powerful man in the world, economically speaking, in the New York Times: SHORTLY before Ben S. Bernanke was nominated as chairman of the Federal Reserve in 2005, he paid a return visit to Stanford, where he started his academic career in 1979. In a speech, he recalled that he and…

This week I was live on air when the Nasdaq froze, ended up spending most of the afternoon helping to diseminate information as it came out from exchange officials and my trader friends from around The Street. I also got quoted a bunch on the story, which turned out to be a non-event given the…

Here were the most read posts on TRB this week, in case you missed them: A Field Guide to Stock Market Corrections Americans don’t know anything about interest rates and portfolios Ack on the Attack Nostalgic Bulls Failure to Communicate