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)…
New York
Goldman Sachs is the Yankees, Citigroup is the Mets
There’s a delicious irony about New York baseball and New York banks that I think is worth discussing in light of the imminent Yankees World Series victory. As baseball fans throughout the nation piss and moan about the fact that the Yankees have the wealth of NY to draw upon when pricing tickets, broadcast rates and payroll…
Roundtrip: Housing's Back to Square One
Was it fun for you? It’s been an amazing 8 year period for housing. Floyd Norris shows us how eerily similar the rise and fall of home prices and inflation have been: From the New York Times: During the period, the Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller 20-city composite index of home prices rose almost 21 percent….
Bronx Zoo Layoffs
This is like the punchline of a bad joke… The economy in New York is so bad… “How bad is it?” It’s so bad, The Bronx Zoo is laying off 10% of their animals! From the NY Post: Layoffs in the city have spread to the animals at the Bronx Zoo. The institution is closing…
