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Hot Links: Icahn vs Trump, Mexican Junk Bonds & Words For Our Madness

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… US Dollar strengthening while Greece deteriorates.  (Bloomberg) Gregor‘s take on the Exxon – XTO deal.  (GregorMacdonald) EPIC: Carl Icahn vs Donald Trump for casino control.  (DealBook) Surprise, surprise:  Merrill is bullish on stocks for 2010.  (PragCap) Mexico bonds downgraded, just above junk status.  ¡Viva La Credit!  (LATimes) “We Need New…

Hot Links: Stuntmen

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Sorkin: Desire to pay back TARP is all about compensation.  (DealBook) Carl Icahn to Goldman Sachs: “I’ll see you in court.”  (Forbes) 103 people killed in a Baghdad bomb blast yesterday.  (NYP) China executes a rogue securities trader.  Pay attention out there in Hedgistan.  (Clusterstock) Jeremy Glaser: 6 stocks to…

Hot Links: In The Bunker

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… The SEC hedge fund probe is going deeper.  (DealBook) Classic Crudele: What Bernanke should answer for in his hearing today.  (NYP) I’m making this one the post of the day: Carl Icahn talks activist investing with Robert Shiller‘s financial markets class at Yale.  (Greenbackd) Get yourself up to speed and…

The "Cute and Cuddly Grandpa from Omaha" has Fangs

I’ve read enough about and by Warren Buffett to be completely in awe of him.  he remains, as Doug Kass calls him, The Mozart of Investing, cobbling together one masterpiece after another, always ahead of the curve. That said, my eyes were opened by some of my favorite bloggers this weekend, and I will probably…

Hot Links: Imus, Hitchens & the Mancession

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Talk radio legend Don Imus is in talks with Fox Business.  (LATimes) Wonk Wars: A recap of the regulation and markets debate between Greg Falkenstein and Justin Fox of CBS Money Watch.  (Falkenblog) It’s official: Gawker is calling it the Mancession.  LOL.  (Gawker) These stocks actually dropped during the big…