1987 Crash Revisited
Rob Fraim is a reader of mine who puts out his own amusing comments each day via email. On the 17th anniversary of the 1987 stock market...
Only TV Reporter at the 1987 Crash
There is a terrific narrative by Jan Hopkins (Live From New York), who was the only reporter on the floor of the NYSE the day of the...
1987 Crash: 20th Anniversary of Black Monday
I have not been a believer in the parallels between the present market and the 1987 crash. The back drops are too different, and the...
Open Thread: Resilient Markets, Accomodative Fed?
As bad as the markets looked today — and at times, there was some heavy selling — the word that kept coming back to me was...
Return of the Spam Stock Tracker
A few years ago, we noted with wry amusement Joshua Cyr’s Spam Stock Tracker. Well, Josh is back with an updated version that is...
Inside the Investor’s Brain
Last month, we got a terrific response to our posting of the entire first chapter of A Demon of Our Own Design. I want to start doing...
Open Thread: New Market Highs?
I sat in on an interesting conversation today. It was with the CEO of a public company ($20B+ cap), a two major shareholders (only...
Buffett Sell Signal
Call it revenge of the rumor mongers: So far this year, Warren Buffett has been wrongly named as an acquirer seven times. In five of...
Brokers’ Fictitious Gains
Friday’s WSJ had this insightful column on Wall Street’s earnings, Brokers’ Head-Scratcher. “Still, some investors remained...
Open Thread: Markets, Inflation, Growth, Recession
Yesterday, I said that the Fed had become Wall Street’s "Bitch". It was toward the end of the post, and I assumed it...