March 2008

More proof of two realities we're living through -- 1. They can't stop the revolution. 2. Orwell had it wrong, it's Little Brother that's watching you.   Cyber-Rebels in Cuba Defy State’s Limits By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. A growing underground network of young people has been spreading news the official state media try to suppress. The best part of the article is the quote at the very ... read more

When I was 25 and working at Oppenheimer, my first job on Wall Street, I saw an article about a Reebok 4-minute mile challenge. That is, if you were an amateur athlete and could break a four-minute mile, Reebok would give you a million bucks. Or maybe it was $100,000, whatever. I used to work out hours a day, every day and since I'd ended my streak of playing hoops every single day for more than ... read more

We have the following guests booked for this evening: -Steve Grasso, Stuart Frankel -Rob Nichols, Financial Services Forum president -Rebecca Woodland -Arthur Aidala -Michael Jemal, Haier America President and CEO -Paul Rossi, Publisher of the Economist and Executive Vice President -Robert Van Batenburg, Louis Capital Markets -Topper Luciani, Paul Longo, Scott Caputo, Sir Drake ... read more

Rather than having these politicians grill their former cronies to give Wall Street something to do besides writhe in liquidity-less pain, wouldn't it be great if we could get some citizens up there who have the right to throw stones? Like the foreman mob dude overseeing the remodeling of a luxury apartment building next to mine.  Well, maybe he's not quite got the same stone throwing ... read more

Another Crazy Friday lined up for this week.....We have the following guests booked for this evening: -Dan North, Euler Hermes ACI chief economist -Dean Baker, Center for Economic Policy Research -Rich Edson -Laurie Dhue, Anchor -John Paradiso, Paridiso Jewelers -David Heenan, Flight Capital author -Dr. John Tantillo, Marketing Doctor -Bill Schulz, Red Eye Join Cody and Rebecca Gomez for ... read more

What's up with the lies? Don't get me wrong, I'm no saint, you know? But there's something about these women I've dated lately and this incessant need to create a facade from the beginning. There was the vegan health nut who drank too much, who after checking her gmail at my house on a Saturday had left the window open. She canceled meeting me to see a friend sing at church the next morning ... read more

As much bulling as I've been doing on Google down here below $500 again, I was actually worried that Barron's would call it a value stock or something this weekend. And, see, as Barron's has been dead wrong on Google since it first came public and they were quoting dudes saying Google was fair valued at $25 a share. As I've pointed out before, that'd be like buying it at ... read more

I didn't see the first season of Lost until after James Altucher had convinced me it was the "perhaps the greatest television program ever" and I went on the DVD buying binge to make up for lost video ownership years. So I watched a good half of the first season during what started out as a three day weekend of endless work, sorta in the background until I found myself glued to the 109" projector ... read more

On Happy Hour last Friday, Gogo and I were discussing lately how we're getting to the "fall guy" part of this downturned economic cycle giving the world someone to blame. NYTimes' report today that New York Governor Elliot Spitzer has some sort of involvement with a prostitution ring doesn't seem to have much to do with the markets ... read more

I mean, come on, already with this endless reverse Robin Hood movement that we're all being subjected to because rich landowners speculated too much, funds-of-funds took ridiculously levered up institutional money, levered it up even further and gave it to hedge funds who borrowed more on top of that and used options to get even more exposure to the good times. As I wrote here on these pages a ... read more