Howard and Barry shoot the breeze.
Howard Lindzon
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…
More Hot Links: Andrew Hall, Modern Myths & Bank Thievery
More Hot Links for Weekend Reading… Get ’em, Howard! Man’s attempt to teach his children to save foiled by Bank of America thievery. (HowardLindzon) Roundup of economists’ quotes from the Buttonwood Conference. (TBP) Michael Santoli takes on Five Modern Myths that are widely-accepted on The Street right now. (Barrons) Yves Smith follows up on the…
Hot Links: Ackman, Leno & Goldman's BRIC Picks
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Goldman Sachs is recommending the BRIC-related stocks going into earnings season, here are their 50 favorite plays: (PragCap) The most important news of the day. (Clusterstock) Pershing Square’s Bill Ackman has a new short position. (DealBook) Classic: NBC wants Jay Leno to have an affair! (BorowitzReport) Pessimism Porn takes a…
Hot Links: Meet Poe, the World's Tallest Horse
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Spanish Banks may be hiding their losses, what this means for world markets. (Bronte) The StockTwits guys teasing the boss. Funny. (HowardLindzon) Sick! Step 1 – add $8 billion in debt to Tribune, Step 2 – steer into bankruptcy, Step 3 – pay bonuses. (DealBook) Red miniskirts, white jackboots and…
More Hot Links: World's Longest Bridge
More Hot Links for Weekend Reading… Legendary Las Vegas impresario Bob Stupak has passed. (WSJ) Is NBC really a core business for GE or is it, in fact, up for sale, along with CNBC? (ZeroHedge) Cool: The legendary trading culture of Susquehanna International. (InfectiousGreed) A behind the scenes look at Andrew Cuomo, the New York…
Hot Links: Facebook's Ticker, HP's Earnings & Coke's Milk
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Way overdue: Howard Lindzon decides to assign stock ticker symbols to Twitter and Facebook. (HowardLindzon) Hey anarchists, the US government is starting to turn a profit on the chaos loans. (NYT) Mutual Funds blowing out shares of consumer spending plays, retailers etc. (Bloomberg) Pretty provocative stuff for Newsweek: Is The…
Congrats to the StockTwits Gang
I want to take a moment to congratulate the StockTwits guys who rang the closing bell for yesterday’s trading session over at the NASDAQ Marketsite. I met Howard Lindzon, Upside Trader and the rest of the gang at a Bacchanalian loft party earlier this summer. They’re all great guys and, without a doubt, they are…
Wall St Cheat Sheet, My Latest Obsession
I love reading interviews when the subject is someone I truly admire. I also love it when the questions are good enough to expose a whole ‘nother aspect of a person that I thought I knew all about. For this reason, I’m obsessing over Wall St Cheat Sheet in a major way. The site was…
Things To Do Instead Of Attending Your Neighbor's Tea Party Rally
Tea Party The Tea Party movement has been spared my ridicule thus far…Until now. I caught a Fox News town hall-esque State of the Tea Party program hosted by Glenn Beck this weekend and my abdominal muscles ached from all the cringing this broadcast induced. This was a nationally-televised moron-a-thon in the round. Its not…
