Hot Links for Weekend Reading… How did Chariman Mao deal with unwanted “Green Shoots” amongst capitalist-leaning peasants in the Chinese countryside? (Mises.org) Bernie Madoff can still afford a prison consultant, so that’s a green shoot for sure! (LOLFed) David Merkel puts up the 1000th post on his excellent Aleph Blog…start reading him if you haven’t…
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Hot Links: Appraisals, iPhones & Dinner With Gasparino
Hot Links for Weekend Reading… Baruch gets the new iPhone but is disappointed that it fails the cafe table test. (Ultimi Barbarorum) Rick Bookstaber writes the definitive checklist of suspicious things a hedge fund will do when it’s in trouble and desperately flailing to dig out. (Rick Bookstaber) Barry Ritholtz uncovers an attempt by the…
Hot Links: Hedgies, Jeff Macke, Violence & Nathan's Hot Dogs
Hot Links for Weekend Reading… Does any blogger do a better job at keeping up with the latest moves and news from the hedge fund world than Market Folly? I doubt it. Check out MF’s roundup this week of the latest on Soros, Och Ziff, the Black Swan guy, Greenlight’s Einhorn and more. (Market Folly)…
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,…
Blue Horseshoe Worries About "Wall Street" Sequel
I just read some of the preliminary details on the upcoming Wall Street sequel from Oliver Stone over on Dealbreaker and I’m physically incapable of not chiming in on this one. I’ll quote Gordon Gecko himself to let you know how I feel about a sequel to the greatest movie about business ever made: “Mixed…
Hot Links: Ratings Agencies, Europeans and the Power of "No"
Hot Links for Weekend Reading… OMG you guys, I love it when you hear that famous people are friends, I like to come up with my own combinations and pretend they hang out…like Kevin James and Phillip Seymour Hoffman…ok, sorry…so Bill Gates and Warren Buffett and Oprah and Ted Turner and Mike Bloomberg and all…
Hot Links: Lemonade, Eschatology & The Gotti Foreclosure
Hot Links for Weekend Reading Let’s kick it off with something that’s both outrageous and smart, Johnny Debacle goes ape$hit on the business practices of a kid’s corner lemonade stand. Here’s a taste: This Lemonade Stand was founded on a promise of fresh beverages to keep you cool on a hot day. Instead, management oversees…
Hot Links: Jenna Lee, Madoff Secretary, Chrysler & Morgan Stanley
Hot Links for Weekend Reading Who was the luckiest financial blogger of the week? My pal Stephen over at Wall Street Fighter visited with gorgeous and talented anchorwoman Jenna Lee of Fox Business for an interview, so you tell me! The investor class and all of institutional Wall Street was aghast at Obama‘s treatment of…
Who's Who of Financial Bloggers
Who’s Who in the World of Financial Bloggers? Well, if finance blogdom was a high school, here are the extra-curricular activities your favorite bloggers would be involved with… 1. A.P. Economics Barry Ritholtz (The Big Picture) Mish (Global Trend Analysis) Anonymous (Calculated Risk) Boone, Johnson & Kwak (Baseline Scenario) Yves Smith & Co. (Naked…
