A successful career on Wall Street is as much about the failures as it is about the wins. Anyone who tells you differently is either hiding their past mistakes or is about to experience their own epic collapse, made even worse by the fact that it will be wholly unexpected to them. This is good…
Lenny Dykstra
Hot Links: Punk Animals
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Ace Fidelity International fund manager sees a multi-year bull market, led by emerging stocks. (Bloomberg) Lenny Dykstra sold a bunch of his World Series stuff, the ’86 ring went for 56 grand. (Dealbreaker) Twelve Juicy Buyout Candidates. (Clusterstock) A tragedy for family-owned businesses in this recession. (WSJ) The Fly takes…
Hot Links: McDonaldland
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… A Fed official talks about the potential for aggressive interest rates hikes when necessary. (Bloomberg) Trader Mark on the Julian Robertson Armageddon interview. (FundMyMutualFund) Yes, Twitter is worth 74 kajillion dollars, haters. (NYP) Rumors of a Blackstone LBO for Sea World. Somebody warn Shamu! (LOLFed) Jesse is still agnostic on…
Giving Cramer Credit For His Citigroup Call
I know, I know…Cramer‘s picks underperform the market and Cramer’s hedge fund performance performance was all from IPO’s and Cramer makes out with Lenny Dykstra and blah blah blah. I don’t have time to do a whole Defending Cramer piece right now and I’m not interested in having this post turned into a warzone for…
Hot Links: Chairman Mao, Larry Summers & Lenny Dykstra
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…
