April 2008

1. 25bps after 300? Why Bother? 2. The Fed Is a Pawn of the Status Quo 3. When a Free One Costs Twenty 1. Let's think about this for a second. They cut rates from 5.25% to 2.25% before today's 25 bps move. I can only tell you this -- that idiot bureaucrat named Ben has NO any idea what a 0.25% cut, which is less than 1/10th of how much the Fed's ALREADY cut since ... read more

Glenn Farris, Biomass, Gas, & Electric C.E.O John Lehman, Former secretary of the Navy under Ronald Regan Andrew Okpeha Maclean, Tribeca Filmaker w/ John Lehman Phil Flynn Cathy Cone, Delta Retirement Committee Chairperson Joseph Crowley, Congressman on the Ways and Means Committee Rescue Ink, Tatoo Animal Rescue Scott Mccoy, digimeld Todd Harrison ... read more

Quick, guess what year these lyrics are from: I've been waiting for years to buy a brand new cadillac But now that I've got one I want to send it right back I can't afford the gas to fill my luxury limousine But even if I had the dough no one's got no gasoline Who needs a car and a seven-forty-seven When you can't buy a gallon of gas Who needs a highway, an airport or a ... read more

I wear my sunglasses at night so I can so I can Watch you weave then breath your story lines. And I wear my sunglasses at night -- Corey Heart Did I really just quote Corey Heart to start off a blog post? A stretch to connect the lyrics at that... With the 5% hit to the stock today, Altria's now yielding almost 6%. The stock, that is. I mean, I gotta ask you something -- all these ... read more

1. Inflating the Inflation of Inflation 2. Buy Softee For a Hard Fight 3. Flip It: GTA4 reduces violence! 1. I ran through the BS, ER BLS data of beef, electricity, bananas, and other essentials for the last decade and came out with a roughly 3% inflation rate. The question is what it'll look like ten years from now...and we better hope the guys in charge of our dollar start thinking about ... read more

Softee's been getting killed of late as the weekend passed and everybody was shocked that Yahoo and Softee haven't resolved anything yet. MSFT's down from almost 30% from its highs late last year, and down about 20% from its more recent highs.  Meanwhile, earnings and revenues have been steadily growing faster than the street's modeled and the report last week was another pretty darn good ... read more

...Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.   Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion ... read more

With all the pessimism and fear in the midst of all this artificial stimulation, this market has been a pretty good set up for the long side and being bullish. After leaving the business entirely myself and having my Mom take 30% of her savings out of the stock market back on air late last year, I got bullish in March after the markets had dropped 20% and had my mom put 1/3 of that money back into ... read more

I miss writing for the FT, and was happy when I knew I'd get to see some of the people there at the fifth annual "Meet the FT" party.  It was a great set up -- at the top of 30 Rock.  As I walked in with my Jedi Master, James Altucher, we passed NBC Universal CEO, Jeffrey Zucker, coming out of the building.  I got a kick out of telling James that Zucker had eyed me as we passed because he knew ... read more

Even though it's not a game and the repercussions of it aren't fun, let's start a new game on Happy Hour and here on The Cody Word called "The Food Shortage Blame Game". (Is Chuck Woolery avail?) I've been doing a lot of thinking about all this "Going green" by buying "Green guitars", or "Green luxury bags" and we've all been hearing/seeing all the hype and outsized consensus about how ... read more