Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… STOP! Don’t cash out your 401(k) before reading this from Karl Denninger. (Market-Ticker) Here’s a great list of the basic books that all value investors should read. (ValuePlays) Cali has company: New York State is running out of cash. (InvestingContrarian) Frankly, America, Wall Street Really Doesn’t Give a Damn. (NYP)…
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Hot Links: Perp Walks, Proud Bulls and the Skiing Robot
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Rockstar Raymond James strategist Jeff Saut is still bullish and proud of it. (PragCap) Say hello to Preet Bharara, the New Sheriff of Wall Street. (Clusterstock) Eddy Elfenbein: David Rosenberg is running away from his bad calls. (CrossingWallStreet) Bess opens the floodgates of speculation on which Hedgie will be doing…
Hot Links: Megan Fox & The Siren Song of the Bears
Hot Links for Weekend Reading… David Merkel on ignoring the siren song of bearishness in a bull market. (AlephBlog) The big BIG winners of 2009: Stocks that are up 400% plus: (Bespoke) Bonus/ compensation discussions will be prominent at the G-20 meeting next week. (Bloomberg) Peter Schiff: Letting Lehman go was one of the only…
Hot Links: Ben Stein, The Link Economy & Johnny Appleseed
Hot Links for Weekend Reading… JPMorgan updates it’s outlook and strategy for stocks, oil, bonds and currencies. (PragCap) I don’t know what the better aspect of this link is, Ben Stein‘s being fired by the NYT or Equity Private‘s writing, which is brilliant. Click either way and read the post. (Dealbreaker) Blogger Felix Salmon breaks…
Breakfast Links: Toilet Paper Tube Sculptures
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… The Epicurean Dealmaker on Harvard the Hedge Fund. (TED) Rushkoff on MicroHoo; Calls Yahoo “Microsoft’s Prison Yard Bitch“. (Daily Beast) Weak Dollar overnight, so you know what that means: Explosive global rally in stocks and commodities? (MarketWatch) CB Richard Ellis in the eye of the commercial real estate storm. (LA…
Does Microsoft Have It's Swagger Back?
[vodpod id=Groupvideo.3040005&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] Over the weekend, the eggheads at Knowledge@Wharton posted an update on Microsoft‘s new focus on driving innovation. The score so far is something like Google/Apple 50, Microsoft 1 (Bing‘s working) in terms of innovation, but in technology, this can change out of nowhere (see Palm Inc for an example). It’s also worth noting…
Breakfast Links: Madoff, Google and Swiss Banking
Breakfast Links for June 29, 2009 It looks like the Suisse banks may have had enough in the US: UBS AG and Credit Suisse Group AG, the country’s biggest banks, have told Americans to move their money into specially created units registered in the U.S., or lose their accounts. Smaller private banks such as Geneva-based…
Market Recap: The Battle
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMahxoftUFc] The Reformed Broker, AKA Buddy Lembeck, here with today’s Market Recap… Much like Rhymefest* gives up the battle to Big Daddy Kane in the above video (my favorite of ’09 so far), the bears had to give it up to the bulls today as banks and techs stole the show. The airlines went berzerk…
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…
Your Oil Stocks Aren't Coming Back, Chulo
Remember when Intel (INTC), Microsoft (MSFT), Dell (DELL), Lucent (ALU), Yahoo (YHOO) and Cisco (CSCO) ruled the markets? There was an era, roughly 1997 to 2000 when those stocks actually mattered. They were important companies doing big things in terms of providing the technology needed for the next century’s communications and internet build-out. And then,…