The market sucks today, but not the blogosphere! Here’s a few links to keep you lol-ing The Felix Salmon v Henry Blodget is coming to a resolution, with some serious passive aggression, the kind that I thought only my wife could deliver! Here’s Henry Blodget and here’s Felix Salmon. Do try to play nice, boys. …
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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…
Hot Links: Nerds, Dorks, Geeks & Dweebs
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Global stocks, metals run out of steam overnight. Copper’s the culprit. (Bloomberg) My fave post of the week: Kanye interrupts Bernanke. Classic! (LOLFed) Federal Reserve bonus watchdogs will be embedded at Wall Street firms and banks. (Clusterstock) NYC unemployment now over 10%. Party on, Wayne. (Economix) IPO market, coming off…
What Your Favorite Blogs Said at the Bottom
The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average bottomed out at around 666 and 6500 respectively on Friday, March 6th of 2009. Just for fun, and because it’s been too hot to go outdoors, I thought I’d take a look back at what my favorite financial bloggers were talking about as we stared into the…
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. …
Hot Links: The Pentatonic Scale
[vodpod id=Groupvideo.3090598&w=425&h=350&fv=] Hot Links for Weekend Reading… Jefferson County, Alabama: the brokest county in all the land. (NYT) Barry Ritholtz does a killer guest post for Prieur‘s site discussing the analysts. (Investment Postcards) China’s governments create a bottom in commercial real estate by intervention. (FT) Speaking of China, Karabell looks at why their stimulus is…
Breakfast Links: Housing Bottoms, Car Wars & Pigs in the Hamptons
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Major firm strategists move around their year-end S&P 500 targets, as if anyone cares what they think anymore. (BIG) I agree with this one, farewell Geneva asset management biz…do some actual work. (Minyanville) Bank failures accelerating. (TBP) Ezra Klein on the new Menu Labeling trend. (WaPo) Henry Blodget explains the…
Breakfast Links: Bernanke, Mortgage Brokers & Nine Inch Nails
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Filthy mortgage brokers are now calling themselves “Loan Modification Specialists“. Jason kills it with this post. (LOLFed) Some color on Ben Bernanke‘s op-ed, published late yesterday in advance of this week’s testimony. (Bloomberg) Ezra Klein tackles the healthcare debate with an idea that just. might. work. (Washington Post) ShadowBanker takes…
Breakfast Links: CIT, Jimmy Carter & The Grapes of Wrath
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… The exact date that the Chinese stock market will collapse. (MoneyScience) Stick a fork in CIT Group, 1908-2009. (Bloomberg) They caught the runaway Credit Sueeeeesse broker, and no, he wasn’t at Le Cirque. (NYT) Virginia is for Usury. (LOLFed) JPMorgan smokes their numbers, 28 cents vs 4 cents expected…get ’em…
Breakfast Links: Cody Willard, CIT, Sun Valley & Jay-Z
[vodpod id=Groupvideo.2945931&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] OMG, everything is wrong with this video, Batman, Robin & assorted villains sing “At The Hop” in Spanish for some reason, and then at around the 1:18 mark, a mini Spider-Man appears for no reason whatsoever (Spidey is a Marvel character, Batman is DC). This thing is nine types of bizarre. OK, on…
