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Hot Links: Ben Stein, The Link Economy & Johnny Appleseed

Hot Links for Weekend Reading… JPMorgan updates it’s outlook and strategy for stocks, oil, bonds and currencies.  (PragCap) I don’t know what the better aspect of this link is, Ben Stein‘s being fired by the NYT or Equity Private‘s writing, which is brilliant.  Click either way and read the post.  (Dealbreaker) Blogger Felix Salmon breaks…

Hot Links: The Pentatonic Scale

[vodpod id=Groupvideo.3090598&w=425&h=350&fv=] Hot Links for Weekend Reading… Jefferson County, Alabama: the brokest county in all the land.  (NYT) Barry Ritholtz does a killer guest post for Prieur‘s site discussing the analysts.  (Investment Postcards) China’s governments create a bottom in commercial real estate by intervention.  (FT) Speaking of China, Karabell looks at why their stimulus is…

Breakfast Links: Venom on a Friday

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Wow!  A list of the most disgusting, pathetic people on earth!  That’s right…it’s Fashion Meets Finance time once again!  (Pocket Change) The article that helped ignite yesterday’s rally.  (Bloomberg) The mall retailers attempt Christmas in July.  (WSJ) Absurd lawsuit of the week:  “The Kindle Ate My Homework”.  (TechFlash) Remember dividends? …

Breakfast Links: Toilet Paper Tube Sculptures

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… The Epicurean Dealmaker on Harvard the Hedge Fund.  (TED) Rushkoff on MicroHoo; Calls Yahoo “Microsoft’s Prison Yard Bitch“.  (Daily Beast) Weak Dollar overnight, so you know what that means:  Explosive global rally in stocks and commodities?  (MarketWatch) CB Richard Ellis in the eye of the commercial real estate storm.  (LA…

Breakfast Links: IPO's, Cramer & the B of A Tower

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… First, I want to wish a happy 4th birthday to Long or Short Capital‘s site…these guys are great, start reading.  (LongOrShort) 4 IPO’s scheduled for August.  I forgot, what’s an IPO, again?  (DealBook) How many NYC restaurants have gone under this year?  Not that many, considering…  (Grub Street) Straight up…

Breakfast Links: Housing Bottoms, Car Wars & Pigs in the Hamptons

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Major firm strategists move around their year-end S&P 500 targets, as if anyone cares what they think anymore.  (BIG) I agree with this one, farewell Geneva asset management biz…do some actual work.  (Minyanville) Bank failures accelerating.  (TBP) Ezra Klein on the new Menu Labeling trend.  (WaPo) Henry Blodget explains the…

Breakfast Links: Trader Mark, Judd Apatow and the Cankle Epidemic

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… The NYSE applies the old “Grandmother Rule” in it’s barring of a bad broker.  (SEC Teaparty) Javier Bardem is out as the villain of the Wall Street sequel.  Check out the comments section on Dealbreaker for some of the most hilarious replacement suggestions imaginable.  (Dealbreaker) So far, a monstrous comeback…

Breakfast Links: Livermore, Gasparino & the 2nd Ave Subway

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Carney may be onto something re: Epstein‘s “Hedge Fund”.  The next Ponzi?  (Clusterstock) Thank heavens for Greenback’d, a monster list of every activist investor situation going on right now.  (Greenback’d) NEXT Financial gets nailed…gotta supervise those OSJ branches, people.  (BusinessWire) Charlie Gasparino has a secret un-admirer who thinks he went…

Breakfast Links: Pinning Down Roubini

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… OMG, some my fave links of the month so far today! Blankfein to Goldman employees: “Please refrain from wearing your crowns outside of the office”.  (New Yorker) The recession is now screwing with the British pub business, time for us to get serious.  (USA Today) Just try pinning down Nouriel…

Breakfast Links: Ben Stein, Rock Radio & Intern Eating Contests

Stuff I’m Reading This Morning… Felix Salmon calls Ben Stein a predator, or a shill for a predator…tomato, tomaato.  (Reuters) Goldman announces it’s acquisition of the Treasury Dep’t…LOL!  (Andy Borowitz) Jamie Dimon on a CIT Bankruptcy:  “Whatever, dog.”  (DealBook) It’s Summertime!  So let the intern eating contests begin on The Street!  (Dealbreaker) Is the “Equity-Merchant…