Kurt

Twenty years ago today, my generation’s biggest and most important rock star was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Kurt Cobain was 27. Here’s Cobain at his most intense, doing the closer for the Unplugged session in New York City. Something absolutely guttural comes out of his lungs at the 4:30 mark and when…

Jeff Tweedy on Portlandia

Wilco fans had something to smile about this week when Jeff Tweedy popped up on IFC’s Portlandia and had his chops broken by Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen as record execs questioning the authenticity of his folk music credentials. Here’s the clip: It just occurred to me that we talk a lot about Portlandia here…

“But it’s a good company!”

“Success in investing is not a function of what you buy. It’s a function of what you pay.” – Howard Marks Oh man. Rough week. All the momentum faves have been hammered, good companies thrown out with bad ones. The Social Media ETF (SOCL) is down 15% from its March 6th high, names like Facebook,…

This Week on TRB

William “Bill” O’Brien, the CEO of BATS (right), goes at it for 30 minutes with Brad Katsuyama, the CEO and president of IEX, and the hero of Michael Lewis’ new book, ‘Flash Boys.’ As O’Brien heaped scorn on Lewis and Katsuyama for their anti-HFT Sherman’s March through the media this week, Katsuyama accepted the challenge to…

March Unemploymentzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Arguably the least important jobs report of our lifetimes. The Fed is bent on ending stimulus by the end of this year and it’s hard to picture a jobs number that would have curtailed (or sped up) the pace of tapering. Anyway, here are the numbers: Headline unemployment rate unchanged at 6.7%. 192,000 jobs added…

Two Great Reads You May Have Missed

Obviously I do a lot of curation here on the blog and I’m always sharing the reading material that I believe to be crucial for investors to be aware of. But the speed of life is ridiculous these days, everyone’s so busy they can barely hear themselves think – which is cool, better than having…