Archive for April, 2009

• Who Else Got Pushed Around by Hank Paulson?
  Joshua M Brown, April 24th, 2009 at 9:45 am, Comments: 0

  I just sat down and digested the B of A/Merrill Lynch Merger Investigation letter and I felt like I was reading excerpts from a Godfather [...]

• Can It Be? Really? A Ford Turnaround?
  Joshua M Brown, April 24th, 2009 at 7:57 am, Comments: 0

  Here's a new Analogy for y'all: Ford is to General Motors as The Jeffersons are to Sanford and Son While Chrysler and GM currently subsist [...]

• Market Recap: Hotel, Motel, Holiday Inn…
  Joshua M Brown, April 23rd, 2009 at 2:53 pm, Comments: 0

  The Reformed Broker, AKA Derick Sermon, here with today's Market Recap... They loved everything about Apple (AAPL) today, and the stock was up over 3 [...]

• Stress Test: Throw Another Trillion Into The Woodchipper
  Joshua M Brown, April 23rd, 2009 at 11:59 am, Comments: 0

  Waiting with baited breath for the results of the US Government's 19 bank stress tests?  Here's an appetizer from the folks over at Keefe Bruyette [...]

• German Sex Bailout
  Joshua M Brown, April 23rd, 2009 at 6:22 am, Comments: 0

  German whores need stimulus, too. I know, I know...too provocative an opening sentence.  I learned that from Rupert, you're lucky that wasn't the title. From [...]

• Ken Lewis: They Made Me Do It
  Joshua M Brown, April 23rd, 2009 at 12:09 am, Comments: 0

  The Wall Street Journal is reporting that B of A CEO Ken Lewis testified to NY AG Andrew Cuomo that he was coerced into going [...]

• Market Recap: Cars and Bikes
  Joshua M Brown, April 22nd, 2009 at 2:27 pm, Comments: 0

    The Reformed Broker, AKA The Mongoose Californian, here with today's Market Recap... Does anyone or anything suck as much as General Motors (GM)?  Even [...]

• These Little Piggies Went to Market
  Joshua M Brown, April 22nd, 2009 at 10:01 am, Comments: 0

  Apparently, there is an explosion in new equity offerings and even new debt offerings coming from the REIT sector.  The Real Estate Investment Trusts are [...]

• Goldman Pegs China's GDP at Lucky Number 8
  Joshua M Brown, April 22nd, 2009 at 4:45 am, Comments: 0

  From FT: Goldman Sachs has hiked its forecasts for Chinese GDP and reckons the magical growth figure of 8 per cent could be reached this [...]

• Market Recap: The Battle
  Joshua M Brown, April 21st, 2009 at 3:00 pm, Comments: 0

  The Reformed Broker, AKA Buddy Lembeck, here with today's Market Recap... Much like Rhymefest* gives up the battle to Big Daddy Kane in the above [...]