March 2008

As Ben Stein so eloquently put it in this weekend's NYTimes, the fact is that by any standard definition of "recession" (typically defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth) that we're not in one.  Yet, we've already thrown hundreds of billions of dollars of your tax money into the banking system through intraday liquidity injections, ... read more

Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.  -  Ecclesiasticus (ch. IX, v. 10) My mom used to tell me all the time that one of my best talents is surrounding myself with good people.  I look at my career today, the people I work with and more importantly who mentor me, and I'm proud to say ... read more

The other night I'm at a charity event with a friend. After the event, we're in a car service headed downtown for drinks. She's got two Blackberries (Blackberrys?) out and is tapping away. After a couple minutes, I ask who's she's texting. She names a hook up friend of hers, and adds that she'd just texted her parents too. I feel the Negativity well up inside of me and I sit there putting ... read more

They asked me to go to the NYC Auto Show. I think they meant that high-falutin, tax-dollar subsidized NYC Auto Show from the Javitz Center. Instead, I headed up to Willet's Point, where there are no sidewalks or sewers, for a kept-real Pimp-My-Ride Auto show from the streets. As I ask in the video, I wonder just how much these people's lives could be improved with that $286 million of taxpayer ... read more

Fanatical Friday this week.....We have the following guests booked for this evening: - A segment with Cody and Cars   --- hilarious --- -Dan North, Euler Hermes ACI -Nikki Dryden, Human Rights Lawyer, Fmr Canadian Olympic Swimmer -Lance Cottrell, Anonymizer Founder(Remote) -Aaron Ferstman, Youtube Spokessperson -Felicia Day, Youtube Contest Winner -Tay Zonday, My personal HERO, oh and hes ... read more

Every breath you take Every move you make Every bond you break Every step you take Ill be watching you - As if you don't know that's the Police The flare up in Tibet is already worrisome and saddening, but the Dali Lama, despite the NYTimes strange insistence on hidden political motivation on his part and the similarly strange refusal to take his ... read more

HUGE Thursday this week.....We have the following guests booked for this evening: -Jill Schlesinger, Strategicpoint Investment Advisors -Doug Roberts, Channel Capital Research -John Singer, Singer Deutsch -Tracy Byrnes -Stanton Barrett, Nascar Driver/Movie Stuntman -Father Jonathan Morris, Via Rome Remote -Thomas Decoene, Itau Securities President -Joy Weinrich, Movies Magazine -read more

Well, it's certainly not quite the boom time it was from 2002-2007, now is it?   That's a large part of why I kept my mom 20% in cash when she was on the show this week looking at her 403b. Fed-Ex, a great tell for the consumer and other trends in this digital age: "Our fourth quarter earnings read more

Another Wacky Wednesday lined up for this week.....We have the following guests booked for this evening: -Tom Di Galoma, Nomura Securites -Mark Amitage, Carbon Neutral Co. President -Julianne Waldron, Nets Green Initiatives -Paull Young, Converseon -Scott Rothbort, Lakeview Asset Management, professor Seton Hall -Todd Harrison, Minyanville Join Cody and Rebecca Gomez for a live Happy Hour ... read more

I keep hearing people confusing yesterday's stock market rally with an "all clear" signal for this financial crisis. While I do think the free market forces combined with this trillion dollar bail out for Wall Street have put us on a path for strong growth during the 2nd and 3rd quarter of this year, I'm far from thinking we're through with the ramifications of the real estate bubble popping. ... read more