A Great Big List of People and Things that Died this Year
Joshua M Brown
Hot Links: Dawn of the Decade, Whole Foods & Dimon's Tea Party
My Fave Links of the Day
Santa Claus Rally (reprise)
this post originally appeared on December 6th 2009 This post will be 99% anecdotal, 1% empirical, because I haven’t the time or energy to go dig up supporting data for what we all know: Most years, the market rips higher during the week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve and this one week run is…
The Decade in Icons
One of the coolest infographics I’ve ever seen by Philip Niemyer
Apologies… (in which TRB says he's sorry to those he wrongly lashed out at this year)
Like most bloggers, I have a big fat mouth and sometimes it opens before the brain it’s attached to can complete the necessary processes. UNLIKE most bloggers, however, I’m not afraid to admit when I’ve spoken in error and I am certainly no stranger to making apologies. Get ready for a little contrition, as there…
Gary Dvorchak's Look at 2010's Smartphone Wars
Gary Dvorchak did an excellent 2010 Year in Review piece on TheStreet.com this morning. That’s not a typo, he’s got the same type of imagination that I have and has put it to use in order to formulate a list of events that could take place in the coming year…
Hot Links: Global Currency, Super Bowl Ads & The Big Zero Decade
Hot Links for Morning Reading…
More Evidence That High CEO Pay Is Detrimental To Shareholders
I’m gonna keep harping on this issue until Say On Pay gets done for shareholders and apparently, so will Jason Zweig. If you’re not familiar with Zweig, he’s the Wall Street Journal‘s Intelligent Investor columnist and he’s doing phenomenal work in exposing the failure of corporate boards, directors and executives and said failure’s effects on…
A Return to Normalcy…on the Surface
These are not empirical data points, to be sure, but are they worth noticing? Do they signal a return to the way things were?
Corporate Boards: A National Embarrassment
Gretchen Morgenson takes on one of the most crucial factors of our decennis horribilis in the stock market: the failure of corporate board culture.