There’s a pet name I’ve privately assigned to many of the bloggers out there who are so obsessed with covering every story that they barely read actual articles anymore. It’s “Headline Readers“. You know who they are and so do they, so we’ll leave it at that. Now that the government has just released its…
Trader Mark Spots the Mark-Up Monday Trend
Some of my most profitable and interesting discoveries in the market have occured when I’ve taken a hunch or gut feeling and then backed that up with some actual fact-finding. My boy Trader Mark (Fund My Mutual Fund) just followed up on one of his suspicions concerning why it felt as though the market’s been…
Terry Keenan Stuffs This Year's Wall Street Turkeys
The New York Post‘s always acerbically witty columnist Terry Keenan lines up this year’s Wall Street Turkeys and knocks ’em down. The names on the list are fairly predictable even to the lay person, in light of how much ink our favorite captains of finance have recieved nationally this year. They include Vikram Pandit, Timothy…
Bad Economy = Tight and Tapered Jeans
This is just a random fashion observation I’ve made recently concerning the tightness of jeans in relation to the overall condition of the economy. Maybe Alyx from LOLFed will point out where I’m wrong (she knows this stuff), but here’s what I’ve seen: Lates 70’s to Early 80’s The first era of tight and tapered…
Saturday Night Video: Congressman Brady and Sec Treas Geithner Have a Cat Fight
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2i7cxUEOXc Geithner gets feisty with the Congressman right around the 2:50 mark, but the whole thing is worth watching. Better than that friggin’ “V” tv show on ABC at least.
No One is Buying Real Gold, They're Just Betting On Higher Gold Prices
This is a remarkable story. I am not calling for either higher or lower gold prices as this is a forecast-free blog. I will say that depending on how you interpret the facts, your outlook, bullish or bearish, may change. The LA Times offers us an interesting look at the divergence between the activity of…
Hot Links: The Laziest Man on Earth
Hot Links for Weekend Reading… Tadas on aggregating blogs and creating order. Good stuff. (AbnormalReturns) Signs that the Masters of the Universe are staging a comeback. (CNNMoney) The Best New Buildings of the Decade (NYC). (Curbed) Ex-Wirehouse has a message for the “black helicopter” crowd. (DavianLetter) Stocks with the most buy ratings from analysts. (Bespoke)…
Speaking of Currencies…Here are Moneyhats!
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Seven Things You Should Know 11/20/2009
Seven Things You Should Know November 20th 2009 1. Six Month Periods: The 6-month period from November-April has gained +230% for the S&P 500 since 1990, more than 5 times the +44% return achieved during the 6 months from May- October. Both numbers are total return performance results from 1/01/90 to 10/31/09 (source: BTN Research)…
The Trouble With "Drill, Baby, Drill"
I’m not looking to host a debate about whether or not the US should do more to encourage drilling here in America. On one side, we have the oilmen, who would look to drill enough holes to turn the entire continent into a block of Jarlsberg cheese. On the other side, there are the treehuggers who are so wrapped up in…
