Archive for May, 2009

• Very Cool Interactive Map of GM Fallout
  Eddy, May 31st, 2009 at 11:54 pm

  Check it out. (HT: ZH)

• GQ quotes Nassim Nicholas Taleb as saying that in the falling market he “made $20 billion for our clients, half a billion for the Black Swan fund.” Yeah…about that.
  Eddy, May 31st, 2009 at 10:45 pm

  Janet Tavakoli does some great legwork: A recent GQ article quoted Nassim Nicholas Taleb as saying that in the falling market he “made $20 billion [...]

• Jack Welch's Challenge
  Eddy, May 31st, 2009 at 12:23 pm

  Dealbook: It was Jack Welch’s night to reign supreme once more. That’s the assessment of Vanity Fair magazine, which along with Bloomberg News staged a [...]

• Jack Welch’s Challenge
  Eddy, May 31st, 2009 at 12:23 pm

  Dealbook: It was Jack Welch’s night to reign supreme once more. That’s the assessment of Vanity Fair magazine, which along with Bloomberg News staged a [...]

• Corporate Dividends Are Drying Up According to Bankrupt Newspaper
  Eddy, May 31st, 2009 at 12:13 pm

  The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports: In February, General Electric Co. — the classic widows-and-orphans stock — cut its dividend for the first time since 1938, [...]

• Barron's Punches Hole in Green Mountain Coffee (GMCR)
  Eddy, May 30th, 2009 at 3:30 pm

  Bill Alpert looks at one of the hottest stocks around, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR), and isn’t impressed: At almost 60-times the earnings forecast for [...]

• Barron’s Punches Hole in Green Mountain Coffee (GMCR)
  Eddy, May 30th, 2009 at 3:30 pm

  Bill Alpert looks at one of the hottest stocks around, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR), and isn’t impressed: At almost 60-times the earnings forecast for [...]

• Western Civilization Peaks
  Eddy, May 30th, 2009 at 3:04 pm

• First Sanjaya, Now This
  Eddy, May 30th, 2009 at 2:31 pm

  Here are seven portfolios larger than yours. Oh, did I mention they’re cats and dogs. I’m serious. 1. Gunther IV, the German Shepherd: This dog [...]

• Harvard MBAs Promise to Be Ethical
  Eddy, May 30th, 2009 at 12:11 am

  The New York Times reports that 20% of the graduating MBA class at Harvard has signed a pledge to be ethical. Oh boy. Have far [...]

• Right-Wing Comment of the Day
  Eddy, May 29th, 2009 at 7:24 pm

  Guess who spouted this? It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath [...]

• Canadian Euro Has Best Month in 60 Years
  Eddy, May 29th, 2009 at 4:28 pm

  The loonie is making us look like a bunch of hosers: Canada’s currency headed for the biggest monthly gain since the Korean War as commodities [...]

• Best Name of a Penny Stock You'll See Today
  Eddy, May 29th, 2009 at 4:19 pm

  Ladies and gentleman, I give you Jedi Mind, Inc. (JEDM). The company just announced a share buyback, but I have to add, these aren’t the [...]

• Best Name of a Penny Stock You’ll See Today
  Eddy, May 29th, 2009 at 4:19 pm

  Ladies and gentleman, I give you Jedi Mind, Inc. (JEDM). The company just announced a share buyback, but I have to add, these aren’t the [...]

• Arianna Huffington: Only subsription that works is selling "weird porn." With video (of the quote, not of porn weird or otherwise)
  Eddy, May 29th, 2009 at 10:25 am

  HuffPo: The Huffington Post will not be seeking subscription revenues anytime soon, Arianna Huffington told Kara Swisher on stage yesterday at the All Things D [...]

• Arianna Huffington: Only subsription that works is selling “weird porn.” With video (of the quote, not of porn weird or otherwise)
  Eddy, May 29th, 2009 at 10:25 am

  HuffPo: The Huffington Post will not be seeking subscription revenues anytime soon, Arianna Huffington told Kara Swisher on stage yesterday at the All Things D [...]

• Schumpeter's Moment
  Eddy, May 29th, 2009 at 9:16 am

  Carl Schramm has a good article on Joseph Schumpeter in today’s WSJ. Here’s a taste: From Schumpeter’s vantage point, capitalism’s very success allows rich societies [...]

• Schumpeter’s Moment
  Eddy, May 29th, 2009 at 9:16 am

  Carl Schramm has a good article on Joseph Schumpeter in today’s WSJ. Here’s a taste: From Schumpeter’s vantage point, capitalism’s very success allows rich societies [...]

• Ted Tuner: AOL/TWX Meger "Better than Sex"
  Eddy, May 29th, 2009 at 8:41 am

  Mark Hulbert writes on the dissolution of AOL and Time Warner’s nine-year marriage. I had never heard this quote before but Ted Turner said that [...]

• Ted Tuner: AOL/TWX Meger “Better than Sex”
  Eddy, May 29th, 2009 at 8:41 am

  Mark Hulbert writes on the dissolution of AOL and Time Warner’s nine-year marriage. I had never heard this quote before but Ted Turner said that [...]