Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (Aug 4...
The Olympic Games kicked off at 8:08:08 pm on Friday night, the eighth day of the eighth month of 2008. Coincidence? Not at all. The...
Lessons Learned From A Dangerous Year
In the beginning of the year, a column I wrote for Real Money discussed some lessons of the past year. It never was moved over to the...
The Risks of Desert Farming
Nice video on the NYT about how Israel is irrigating high-tech desert farming. High food prices have made certain previously unlikely...
Who is the least trustworthy C.E.O. on Wall Street?
That was the question Portfolio asked. The results from a readers poll, along with appropriate quotes: > Alan Schwartz, Bear...
Me Media Madness!
This was a crazy weeks. A lot of stuff happened all at once. I ended up appearing everywhere, especially in print — Bloomberg, NYT,...
Faber: Global Economy in Recession
Investor Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, talks with Bloomberg’s Kathleen Hays about the euro’s...
Fannie & Freddie & Peter Pan Paulson
Nice earnings this quarter; Don’t gloat — you are on the hook for the shrtfall!
Oil Donations to Prez Campaigns
I just discovered a cool site that tracks all of the donations between Oil companies and candidates — Oil Change USA. All of their...
Crude Oil Breaks Below $115
Crude Oil is down to $115 (continuous cash futures contract). We also have some Backwardation — meaning futures (September...
Really Bad Call: SubPrime Doesn’t Matter, Buy Bear...
In light of my earlier rant about PHSI, we introduce today a new and continuing series: Really, Really Bad Calls — in research,...