Is this thing on? Check one two. Hello everybody. Quite the party we’re having here on Wall Street. My friends will tell you that I’m the polar opposite of someone who wants to bring any party to a crashing halt. Especially one as mind-blowing as this (did I see the dollar AND stocks up on…
Joshua M Brown
More Hot Links: I Hate Cupcakes
More Hot Links for Weekend Reading… My fave site Abnormal Returns turned 4 years old this weekend. Happy Blogiversary! (AbnormalReturns) Thank goodness for our private equity/ i-banking industry for deals like these. Disgraceful. (ZeroHedge) John Crudele: One Trillion Reasons to Avoid a New Stimulus Plan. (NYP) Eddy Elfenbein challenges David Rosenberg‘s “market is extremely overvalued”…
The Fatter Side of Globalization
Please don’t wipe your greasy hands on the art. Merci. Source: Cagle.com
Peter Schiff: A Call To Action
I don’t agree with everything that Peter Schiff says, and I don’t live in Connecticut, but I’d love to see him win his run for the Senate. As for my thoughts on his opponent Christopher Dodd‘s tenure on the Senate Finance Committee…I feel they’ve been made pretty clear here and here. Schiff is the president…
Hot Links: Raising a Mogul
Hot Links for Weekend Reading… “They can’t pay what they owe!” Joe Nocera looks at the shamelessness of the banks. (NYT) Mustache growth can speed the economic recovery. Seriously. (CuriousCapitalist) The ATT&T – iPhone exclusive partnership ends next year. Can Apple sell double the phones with other carriers? (GigaOM) Dunkin’ Donuts Franchisees: “Ding Dong, the…
Seven Things You Should Know 10/9/2009
Seven Things You Should Know October 9th 2009 1. The last time the IRS raised its top marginal tax bracket paid by individual taxpayers was in 1993. The top marginal tax bracket of 31% from 1992 was raised to 39.6% in 1993. The top bracket has been 35% since 2003 (source: IRS). 2. The S&P…
The Gallagher Stimulus Plan: NASA Slams $79 Million Into the Moon
Can someone please explain what the purpose of this morning’s NASA mission is to me? Did we really need to slam two rockets, supposedly worth 79 million dollars, into the side of the moon? Are you guys f@$%in’ kidding me? What’s next? Should we drop a million bucks worth of flat screen TV’s off a…
An American Fail: The Eastman Kodak Tragedy
Remember that girl from high school who was so hot and so out of your league back then that you would’ve jumped out of a plane without a parachute just to get her attention? Yeah, me neither. But now imagine that this girl walks by you on the street and you barely recognize her. That…
Hot Links: Defacing the Dollar
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… PAY ATTENTION: The debate inside the Fed on when to raise rates. (NYT) Several high profile money managers on why China is their favorite BRIC. (Bloomberg) Charlie Gasparino on why Sally Krawcheck would be a big mistake for the Bank of America CEO slot. (Clusterstock) The new dichotomy: Asset allocation…
In Search of Mythic Beasts
The figure they’re going with these days is $4 trillion on the sidelines. Okey Dokey.
