Joshua M Brown

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…

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…

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…