WSJ: Free or Paid? (Yes)
Early 2006, I gave some unsolicited advice to the WSJ about their blogging efforts (WSJ Joins the Blogging Crowd). That was well...
News Visuals: Relationships between the players
Following up on last week’s hard-to-believe Bear Stearns/Buffett story, I happened across an interesting blog the other day: News...
Our Financial Statement
As per our earlier post, we see this amusing cartoon, just in time for earnings season: Source:Pepper . . . and Salt WSJ, October 2,...
First Brokers, Now Banks: More Fictitious Gains
Yesterday’s surprisingly bad news out of Citibank and then UBS sent us back to the research archives looking for information...
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...
MicroIslet Board of Directors
Since this was announced this week, and so many of you emailed me, I might as well make it official: this week, I joined the Board of...
UAW/GM Modern Times
I haven’t really commented much about the GM/UAW. Mostly, because I don’t have much interest insight into either side of the...
Buffett to Buy Bear? Bull$%*# !
Yesterday, the NYT floated a rumor that Warren Buffett was considering taking a stake in Bear Stearns. Have a read of the actual flailing...
Brokers’ Fictitious Gains
Friday’s WSJ had this insightful column on Wall Street’s earnings, Brokers’ Head-Scratcher. “Still, some investors remained...