Archive for June, 2009

• TRB Quoted in Crain's NY
  Joshua M Brown, June 24th, 2009 at 6:15 am, Comments: 0

  Pretty cool stuff... Crain's NY has written extensively about the bankruptcy boom and what it means for the abundance of restructuring talent we have here [...]

• New Roth IRA Rules
  Joshua M Brown, June 23rd, 2009 at 2:31 pm, Comments: 0

  I thought this was a great overview of how the rule change for Roth IRAs will work.  The upshot is that the income restrictions on [...]

• Are You Paying Attention To The Big Shift Index?
  Joshua M Brown, June 23rd, 2009 at 6:21 am, Comments: 0

  Usually when an article starts off with a roomful of theoretical mathematicians having a whiteboard party, I zone out pretty quickly, but I found this [...]

• Market Recap: Dollar Up…You Know the Rest
  Joshua M Brown, June 22nd, 2009 at 2:22 pm, Comments: 0

  The Reformed Broker, AKA Sookie Stackhouse, here with today's Market Recap... The stronger dollar/ weaker stocks and commodities trade was On Like Donkey Kong once [...]

• Festival of Stocks #146: Freak Show!
  Joshua M Brown, June 22nd, 2009 at 3:31 am, Comments: 0

  Welcome to this week's Festival of Stocks (#146), right here on The Reformed Broker.  For those of you who are visiting my site for the [...]

• Smart Balance: It's Like Buttah…Maybe
  Joshua M Brown, June 22nd, 2009 at 12:15 am, Comments: 0

  I'll start by saying that this is not a post that contains any investment advice.  I do not make specific recommendations or market calls to [...]

• Ben Stein on Father's Day in the Times
  Joshua M Brown, June 21st, 2009 at 8:29 am, Comments: 0

  [vodpod id=Groupvideo.2777472&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] Happy Father's Day to all my readers and their dads. My gift today was a babysitter so I can go see The Hangover [...]

• The Tehran Video That Made Me Care
  Joshua M Brown, June 20th, 2009 at 3:24 pm, Comments: 0

  [vodpod id=Groupvideo.2773213&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] I get it now. Took me a week or so to catch on to why everyone's avatar was green on Twitter and why [...]

• What Obama's "Brokers As Fiduciaries" Change Really Means
  Joshua M Brown, June 20th, 2009 at 2:34 pm, Comments: 0

  In Obama's new regulatory reform proposal, there is language concerning how brokers are looked at and treated versus investment advisors. From the Wall Street Journal: [...]

• Hot Links: Hedgies, Jeff Macke, Violence & Nathan's Hot Dogs
  Joshua M Brown, June 20th, 2009 at 6:54 am, Comments: 0

  Hot Links for Weekend Reading... Does any blogger do a better job at keeping up with the latest moves and news from the hedge fund [...]