Five Days of Misery
Nice piece in Barron’s about the under-performance of the Financials this week: "Big sell-offs often create bargains, but, as...
Bill Gates on Facebook
I assumed this was a older parody (maybe not), but in light of last week’s Microsoft $240 million, 1.6% investment in Facebook, it...
Earnings Drag the Dow Lower
Despite fantabulous growth data from Google, several Dow stocks have cast a pall on the markets today, with the Dow off ~ 200 points as I...
Biggest M&A Year in History
Source:Romping Through the Biggest M&A Year in HistoryOctober 2, 2007, 4:24...
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...