Caption Contest Friday: Howard’s Opening Pitch
Joshua M Brown
How Manhattan Was Purchased
How the Dutch bought Manhattan Island.
Three Hot Trailers: Batman, Contagion and Hugo
Video.
Fund Flows: "These Numbers are Mindblowing"
The news is not good as investors flee actively managed mutual funds in droves.
Hot Links: All Killer No Filler
An amazingly well-curated set of morning links.
7000 Muni Bonds at Risk of Automatic Downgrade
This is a nice thing to wake up to…
Google Blows it Out
Big quarter from the Googster…
Uncle Cisco, How Big is the Internet?
I love how Cisco ($CSCO) has reached this almost grandfatherly plateau of being too old to grow but just the right age to gather all us young’uns round the fire for storytime and perspective on the world wide web. Anyway, 7 or 8 of the 5000 employees they’re about to lay off came up with…
$1.5 Trillion Deficit Cut Deal Hits the Wire…
Debt ceiling agreement rumor bounces the markets.
Late Start…
Super late start this morning, there was a rager over at the Delta Chi house last night and I just woke up with the boss’s daughter.