Hot Links for Weekend Reading I confess, I am now officially a LOLFed junkie. This week, they gave us the NYSE’s new Dollar Menu, featuring items like Citigroup, Pier 1 and Vonage. Alyx, you rule. The week started with another bombshell (non) earnings report from AIG, the hedge fund that happens to be attached to…
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Hot Links: Zombie Banks, the Trader Tax & Doug Kass
Hot Links for Weekend Reading On The Big Picture this week, Barry Ritholtz explained the definition of a Zombie Bank, complete with a table of companies that currently qualify as zombies. TheStreet.com‘s James “Rev Shark” DePorre has certainly been busy this week with the launch of his petition to combat the “Trader’s Tax“. It seems…
Hot Links: Berkshire, UBS and the Microsoft Store
Hot Links for Weekend Reading Warren Buffett has had a tough year so far and an especially tough week. The Bespoke Investment Group shows us the ugly year-to-date evidence. Berkshire Hathaway common stock was demolished during a week that saw many of Buffett’s largest stock holdings plummet, for example Wells Fargo and US Bancorp. On…
Hot Links: Ken Lewis Edition
Hot Links for Weekend Reading: The country is made up of two types of people right now, those who care about the Bank of America/ Merrill Lynch saga and those who truly don’t mind being robbed and pillaged in broad daylight. When the news came out that Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain requested a $10…
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Hot Links for Weekend Reading: December 26th, 2008
