Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Andrew Ross Sorkin: We ♥ Mergers. (DealBook) Mr. Juggles translates Las Vegas Sands‘ conference call from corporatespeak to English. (LongOrShortCap) Guess which pro athlete just nudged himself over the billion dollar mark in terms of career earnings? (Forbes) Byron Wein’s making a comeback…sees the rally continuing. (Bloomberg) 50 Common Mistakes…
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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: Ackman, Paulson, Samberg & Whole Foods
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… William Ackman may finally be done bashing his pretty head against the brick wall that is Target. (Dealbreaker) Ezra Klein on what Whole Foods can teach us about healthcare. (WaPo) Bespoke breaks down hedge fund star John Paulson‘s most recent sector allocations. (BIG) And then Trader Mark discusses Paulson’s just-revealed…
Squashing the Goldman Beef
You can always tell when you’re talking to someone who at one point in their career worked at Goldman Sachs. How? Simple. Within the first 5 minutes or so, they will begin a sentence with the phrase “When I was at Goldman,”. This is the real world equivalent of Anchorman‘s Ron Burgundy telling a girl…
Breakfast Links: Pinning Down Roubini
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… OMG, some my fave links of the month so far today! Blankfein to Goldman employees: “Please refrain from wearing your crowns outside of the office”. (New Yorker) The recession is now screwing with the British pub business, time for us to get serious. (USA Today) Just try pinning down Nouriel…
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: Ben Stein, Rock Radio & Intern Eating Contests
Stuff I’m Reading This Morning… Felix Salmon calls Ben Stein a predator, or a shill for a predator…tomato, tomaato. (Reuters) Goldman announces it’s acquisition of the Treasury Dep’t…LOL! (Andy Borowitz) Jamie Dimon on a CIT Bankruptcy: “Whatever, dog.” (DealBook) It’s Summertime! So let the intern eating contests begin on The Street! (Dealbreaker) Is the “Equity-Merchant…
Taibbi v Goldman Redux
“Goldman Sachs…is like a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money” Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone Magazine Matt Taibbi is the reporter who has just exploded into the public consciousness with his brutal Goldman Sachs Controls the Universe piece in, of all places, Rolling Stone…
