Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Stocks set to rip at the open as Dubai gets the rearview mirror treatment and China posts big data. (Bloomberg) The Andrew Ross Sorkin op-ed on Dubai, A Financial Mirage in the Desert. (NYT) Our economic consequences for being fat slobs. (InvestingCaffiene) A guide to November’s stock buyback announcements, including…
Black Swan
Hot Links: Ron Paul, Evan Newmark, Fixing CNBC & The Yellow Lobster
Hot Links for Weekend Reading… Let’s start off with Dealbreaker‘s call for submissions: What should the New York Stock Exchange’s tagline be? The message board was hopping with funny stuff. The Epicurean Dealmaker posted a viscious takedown of former Goldman Sachs I-Banker turned WSJ columnist Evan Newmark and his recent musings on regulating Wall Street…
Hot Links: Black Swans, DJs, CEOs, Rogers and Kass
Hot Links for Weekend Reading Let’s kick it off with a Think Piece from Johnny Debacle of Long or Short Capital. Johnny asks the question “Why be a JD (Juris Doctor) when you could be a DJ (Disc Jockey)?” I got two from The Business Insider this week…first, a slideshow of the Worst CEOs Ever,…
Give the Black Swan a Rest for 2009; The Search for a New Metaphor
With the fresh start we’ve been given, if only by the calendar, I’m here to say that enough is enough – let’s put the over-referenced, tired Black Swan trope into retirement. Just in case we get another year of absurdity and hyperbolic surprise, I’ve come up with a few equally improbable animal variations that could take it’s place for 2009