Barry taught me an important lesson when I began getting invites to write stuff or do speaking engagements all over the country. He explained that if you agree to speak at an event or contribute content for free, make sure it’s because it’s some place that you really care to be seen. Otherwise, insist on…

Kopin Tan is killing it week after week on the Barron’s Streetwise column he took over from the virtually irreplaceable Michael Santoli, who had been penning it from 2007 til 2012 when he jumped to Yahoo Finance. Tan’s really come into his own in recent weeks, I thought this weekend’s State of the Rally rundown…

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Here were the most read posts on TRB this week, in case you missed them: The Infographic That Ate Wall Street “Sentiment is Frothy” Demented. Silly Little Bitches  The Never List  

To be clear, Twitter doesn’t actually have any peers – the closest one is probably Facebook but even that is problematic from many angles. But! It’s still worthwhile to get a sense of where Twitter’s IPO valuation will place it among the handful of social stocks that now exist. Here’s Bob Peck, SunTrust’s ace web…

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It only took five years, $2.5 trillion in stimulus and 140% in S&P gains for you to go right back to acting like a silly little bitch again with your money. You are opening up “play money” accounts to trade the markets and buy obscenely-valued stocks that you know goddamn well are going to crash…

A young client of mine told me he and his wife had been outbid on a handful of houses this past spring, despite the fact that they had literally begun showing up to see homes for sale with a checkbook and engineer in tow. They couldn’t figure out who it was buying up all the…