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Hot Links: Insolvency, Google Facts & the TradeBot3000

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… The Fly notes how cranky the Goldman TradeBot3000 must have been yesterday.  (iBankCoin) Bank of America is now searching for CEOs in New York, could it be you they’re looking at?  (DealBook) India’s central bank buys $6.7 billion worth of gold from the IMF.  (Bloomberg) 10 things you probably didn’t…

Hot Links: Greenblatt, Krugman, Roubini & Livermore

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… What’s all the hubub about with Roubini‘s carry trade prediction from this weekend? (Clusterstock) To hedge a portfolio, diversify or hold cash?  Great post.  (AbnormalReturns) Love this stuff – 7 Lessons from trading legend Jesse Livermore.  (Minyanville) The best and worst stock reactions from this earnings season.  (Bespoke) The Bears…

Hot Links: Dimon and the Dollar

Hot Links for Weekend Reading… The Madoff prison interview.  (NYP) The Jamie Dimon book, Last Man Standing, reviewed in the Times.  (NYT) Strolling the Smart Phone Red Light District with Baruch.  (UltimiBarbarorum) Kedrosky on Creativity and Compression, a must read for writers/ bloggers.  (InfectiousGreed) Dollar got its swagger back this week.  (Bloomberg) Bored with the…

Hot Links: Smoke, Mirrors and Record Bonuses

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… John Crudele: The recovery is all smoke and mirrors.  (NYP) Happy 50 millionth visitor to The Big Picture!  (TBP) Merrill Lynch and Wells Fargo strategists on what the Treasury‘s walking away will mean for interest rates.  (SmartMoney) 11 strangest deductions the IRS allows (yes, breast implants are on the list). …

Hot Links: Tudor on Gold, Galleon's Color, Net Quick

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… IMPORTANT: 3rd Q GDP report out this morning, forecasters are looking for this to be The Turn.  (Bloomberg) Guess who’s hard at work building his second Too Big To Fail insurance conglomerate?  (LOLFed) Paul Tudor Jones on the Great Liquidity Race and his bullish outlook for gold.  (PragCap) Galleon pushed…

Hot Links: The Creepiest Places on Earth

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Overseas markets sell off over US consumer confidence fears (they’re worried we’ll stop buying their crap).  (Bloomberg) George Soros on the markets and which hard assets stocks he’s buying.  (PragCap) Remember the DC Sniper?  Sayonara motherf%$#er.  (NYP) The Fly on CNBC‘s traffic…and his own.  (iBankCoin) Todd Harrison talks about the…

Hot Links: One Bad Bird

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Goldman sees another 5 to 10% leg down in housing by mid-2010.  (Bloomberg) John Carney takes a controversial position on insider trading, hilarity ensues.  (Clusterstock) Real-life hero: Vigilante father abducts his daughter’s killer and beats the s#@$ out of him.  (TimesOnline) The Death of the Newspaper – seen in graphic…

Hot Links: Pete Rose, Harvard & SpongeBob SquarePants

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Rally notwithstanding, insider buying down big, insider selling triples.  (PragCap) What on earth is going on at TheStreet.com?  (ZeroHedge) Harvard sold at the bottom.  (Forbes) Matt Taibbi’s Yankees prediction doesn’t quite pan out.  (Clusterstock) Europe to be powered by the Saharan sun.  (NewScientist) Justifying hedgie insider trading is like defending…

Hot Links: Rules of the Internet

Hot Links for Weekend Reading… Joe Nocera: Where’s Our Bonus?  (NYT) The truth about yesterday’s Existing Home Sales data.  (TheBigPicture) The Hoffmans’s continue flogging Roubini, this time with a video.  (RealClearMarkets) Controversy over Dick Bove’s intraday opinion shift on Well Fargo.  (FTAlphaville) Hulu is an H Bomb, Destroying the Television Industry. (Clusterstock) Matt Drudge has…

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…