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Hot Links: Ice-T Versus a Mac Laptop

[vodpod id=Groupvideo.3717525&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Here’s how nerdy Intel execs propose to their girlfriends.  (LATimes) I’m sorry to hear about Fortune Mag cuting back on frequency of issues, one of the few good print ones left.  (WSJ) Schwab strategist Liz Ann Sonders says buy the dips.  (SmartMoney) Damien Hoffman:  Is Wall Street Ready…

Hot Links: Ugly Dolls, Trillionaires & The Plant That Eats Rats

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… The LOLFed kids require that you pay them only in stacks of Zimbabwe Dollars.  (LOLFed) Felix Salmon on who’s winning between the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal…in his vestibule.  (Reuters) One of the coolest small business stories I’ve heard in awhile: How Ugly Doll became a company. …

The Two Horsemen of the ETF Apocalypse: UMM and DMM

Allow me to introduce you to an investment product so disgracefully ridiculous that one could only assume it was launched on a dare. Very quietly, on June 30th 2009, some firm called MacroMarkets LLC (co-founded by the otherwise well-regarded Robert Shiller) launched two ETFs that purport to be able to give investors 300% of the return or it’s inverse of the…