Archive for April, 2009

• CEO Dead Pool: Pandit Vs Lewis
  Joshua M Brown, April 21st, 2009 at 11:07 am, Comments: 0

              CEO     Vikram Pandit     Kenneth Lewis         Company               Going Against Him Slow to cut costs, snowballing losses, spins all results positively, [...]

• BONY Mellon Spits the Bit
  Joshua M Brown, April 21st, 2009 at 7:42 am, Comments: 0

  From Reuters: Bank of New York Mellon Corp (BK) lowered its dividend 63 percent to build capital, after a decline in fees resulting from falling [...]

• Whitney's Latest Concern: Pulled Consumer Credit Lines
  Joshua M Brown, April 21st, 2009 at 4:52 am, Comments: 0

  The latest prognostication from the Credit Cassandra AKA Meredith Whitney is alarming to say the least.  It concerns the fact that she sees up to [...]

• The Somali Pirate Takes Manhattan!
  Joshua M Brown, April 21st, 2009 at 4:46 am, Comments: 0

  This has FARCE written all over it... From the New York Times: A Somali teenager has arrived to face what are believed to be the [...]

• My Two-Word Response to New York Mag's "The Rage of the Rich"
  Joshua M Brown, April 20th, 2009 at 6:32 pm, Comments: 0

  x My Two-Word Response to New York Magazine's "The Rage of the Rich"? x x F@ck You. x x Read the full whining, whinging tragedy [...]

• Market Recap: Stocks Go Their "Separate Ways"
  Joshua M Brown, April 20th, 2009 at 4:27 pm, Comments: 0

  Stocks and investors went their "Separate Ways" today, so I thought it appropriate to pass along this video of the band Recess doing a cover [...]

• Goldman & Citi: The Pot and The Kettle
  Joshua M Brown, April 20th, 2009 at 10:07 am, Comments: 0

  So Goldman Sachs (GS) doesn't like how Citigroup (C) made it's numbers last week.  Well neither do the rest of us, but we also don't like how [...]

• Separated At Birth? Ponzi Edition
  Joshua M Brown, April 20th, 2009 at 7:54 am, Comments: 0

  There are two things I’ve been freakishly good at my entire life…one is Tetris, the other is figuring out who people look like…below is The [...]

• Stress Test: Capitalism Without Competition?
  Joshua M Brown, April 19th, 2009 at 9:21 am, Comments: 0

  We've removed competition from just about every facet of American life for our children: No dodgeball or football in elementary school for fear of the [...]

• Why 10% Of Us Are Unemployed, Exhibit A
  Joshua M Brown, April 18th, 2009 at 5:34 pm, Comments: 0

  Hey Kids, I'm an ardent patriot and as American as apple pie, or the apple-flavored pie they serve at McDonalds.  That said, I came across [...]