Hot Links for Weekend Reading… Let’s start off with Dealbreaker‘s call for submissions: What should the New York Stock Exchange’s tagline be? The message board was hopping with funny stuff. The Epicurean Dealmaker posted a viscious takedown of former Goldman Sachs I-Banker turned WSJ columnist Evan Newmark and his recent musings on regulating Wall Street…
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Market Recap: The New Beasts
The Reformed Broker, AKA Daddy Warbucks, here with today’s Market Recap… I thought I’d skip the averages today in favor of showing three charts of The New Beasts. From every bear market, a set of new leaders emerges, often, these are stocks that had nothing to do with the prior bull market. My highlighting of…
The Big Con
There’s a scene in the movie Die Hard with a Vengeance where John McClane (Bruce Willis) finally catches on to the fact that the bomb-scare scavenger hunt he and the NYPD have been sent on is only a distraction, a ruse to cover up the real crime – a heist of the Federal Reserve‘s gold bullion…
Perspective
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. Ralph Waldo Emerson Thanks to all for the kind wishes…
Light Posting This Week
No I haven’t fled the country or forgotten how to be the wittiest financial blogger on earth… Rather, I’m pleased to announce that Mrs. TRB has given birth to a bouncing baby broker-in-training. Light posting this week, be back to full strength soon!
Introducing…The Man Behind Abnormal Returns
This is cool… One of the best finance blogs extant, Abnormal Returns, now has a face and a name to go along with the incredible and consistent posting record. He’s finally come out from the shadows, and it’s about time! About Tadas Viskanta is the founder and sole editor of Abnormal Returns, one of the…
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Bankruptcy Bubble Bonanza in the Big Apple
The bankruptcy boom has kept New York law firms and restructuring shops humming throughout the downturn as companies and whole industries have fallen apart. From Crain’s New York: The 1,217 corporate bankruptcy filings in New York’s Southern District so far this year are nearly double the number filed in second-place Delaware over the same period,…
When Irish Debts are Piling
Somebody needs to get the Standard & Poors Monkey off of Ireland’s Back… The ratings agency just cut Ireland’s credit rating for the second time in 3 months (now down to AA). The cost of the Emerald Isle’s banking disasters have S&P spooked and as a result, the credit default swaps that determine the cost…
OMG, I'm Filthy Rich! This Email Proves It!
Overnight, as visions of philly cheesesteak fairies danced in my head, an email came into my mailbox that has completely changed my life. As Forrest Gump said upon learning that he was rich, “Won’t have to worry about money anymore, so, ya know…one less thing.” From my inbox: You have been choosen by the U.N…
