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April 4, 2008 02:52 PM EDT

Content Is King...Somebody Please Tell the Record Labels

So much focus and, let's face it, hype around Apple's claims that they're now the world's largest music retailer. I was long AAPL since the iPod was just about to be rolled out for in large part, as I wrote back in June of 2005 in this article called, "Companies Dream of Apple's Problems": "Apple's still in the driver's seat of its future, and I'm still very much enamored of those crazy ... read more


April 4, 2008 12:30 PM EDT

When We Rally on Bad News

Didn’t I mention yesterday something about this market’s ability to rally on bad news these days? That jobs report was clearly bad news. To be clear, I don’t care that it was worse than some clueless economists polled by some news organization or not. The point is that we lost 80,000 jobs as measured by our antiquated governmental measuring systems, and the magnitude of that along with ... read more


April 4, 2008 09:25 AM EDT

When We Rally on Bad News

Didn't I mention yesterday something about this market's ability to rally on bad news these days? That jobs report was clearly bad news. To be clear, I don't care that it was worse than some clueless economists polled by some news organization or not.  The point is that we lost 80,000 jobs as measured by our antiquated governmental measuring systems, and the magnitude of that along with all the ... read more


April 3, 2008 02:44 PM EDT

Shocking Headline: Investment Banks Having Problems

Let’s say we find out there’s another $100 billion in losses at the US investment banks from the mortgage bubble coming unwound. No, even better, let’s say there’s another quarter of a trillion of losses at than i-banks and other financial institutions in this country. And what would you think if you wake up tomorrow and find out that oil supplies are being disrupted and the world’s ... read more


April 3, 2008 11:40 AM EDT

Shocking Headline: Investment Banks Having Problems

Let's say we find out there's another $100 billion in losses at the US investment banks from the mortgage bubble coming unwound.  No, even better, let's say there's another quarter of a trillion of losses at than i-banks and other financial institutions in this country. And what would you think if you wake up tomorrow and find out that oil supplies are being disrupted and the world's economies ... read more


April 2, 2008 11:19 AM EDT

Happy Hour 4.02.08

We have the following guests booked for this evening: -Pierre-Emmanuel Tattinger, French Champagne House -Al Haverson, Frito Lay -Mike Santoli, Editor, Barrons -Seth Goldman, Honest Tea-EO & Founder -Veronica Barton, Schwarz Veronica SPA -Dr Jennifer Ashton -Carolyn B., Maloney Congresswoman (D), Hillary Supporter -Sandra Smith Join Cody and Rebecca Gomez for a live Happy Hour at the Bull ... read more


April 1, 2008 01:49 PM EDT

Happy Hour 04.01.08

We have the following guests booked for this evening: -Rich "Big Daddy" Salgado, Coastal Advisors President & Ceo       -Roger Kubarych, Unicredit Chief U.S. Economist      -Rich Donnelly, Apenbio Pharma        -Chris Mcdonald, Actor -Carla Moquin, Parenting in the Workplace Institute Pres. -Rep. Ed Royce, R-California -Meredith Ochs and Chris T “Freewheelin’” on Sirius ... read more


April 1, 2008 01:18 PM EDT

A Different Kind of Wii

Not much to add to this one either.  Gotta love the start of the 3rd quarter, eh? ;) Amazing Virtual Pee Experience from Japan As any good geek should know by now Japan has some of the wackiest and most unusual products anywhere.PS.  Nintendo's stock, like Google's stock, is a buy right now ... read more


April 1, 2008 09:05 AM EDT

Google Time Travel

I think I'll just link to this one for now...

Introducing Gmail Custom TimeTM

Be on time. Every time.*

Google's all about empowering that end user, eh? PS.  I still say Google's a screaming buy below $500 these days. ... read more


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  • Cody Willard is an anchor on the FOX Business Network. Willard is also the principal of an investment management company. He was a long-time featured columnist for the Financial Times and TheStreet.com as well as a regular featured economist and stock picker on CNBC's ''Kudlow & Company."

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