Archive for July, 2009

• Hot Links: The Pentatonic Scale
  Joshua M Brown, July 31st, 2009 at 10:40 pm, Comments: 0

  [vodpod id=Groupvideo.3090598&w=425&h=350&fv=] Hot Links for Weekend Reading... Jefferson County, Alabama: the brokest county in all the land.  (NYT) Barry Ritholtz does a killer guest post [...]

• How Sick Does District 9 Look?
  Joshua M Brown, July 31st, 2009 at 6:06 pm, Comments: 0

  Just thought I'd throw this out there...How sick does District 9 look? [vodpod id=Groupvideo.3089187&w=425&h=350&fv=] Have a nice weekend kids, and tune in tomorrow for Weekend [...]

• Trump Brand Reaches It's Logical Endpoint: Snake Oil Sales
  Joshua M Brown, July 31st, 2009 at 7:28 am, Comments: 0

  When you think of the word Health, what celebrity immediately springs to mind?  Lance Armstrong?  Nope.  For me, it's Donald Trump all the way.  If [...]

• Breakfast Links: Venom on a Friday
  Joshua M Brown, July 31st, 2009 at 6:04 am, Comments: 0

  Stuff I'm Reading this Morning... Wow!  A list of the most disgusting, pathetic people on earth!  That's right...it's Fashion Meets Finance time once again!  (Pocket [...]

• Ratings Agencies, aka The Three Stooges, Get a Taste of Regulation
  Joshua M Brown, July 30th, 2009 at 5:35 pm, Comments: 0

  [vodpod id=Groupvideo.3080520&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] The Department of the Treasury just released this Fact Sheet to demonstrate what the administration's agenda will look like as it pertains to [...]

• The Big Picture Challenges Jim Cramer on the Banks
  Joshua M Brown, July 30th, 2009 at 11:06 am, Comments: 0

  The Big Picture's Chris Whalen had this to say about James Cramer's table-pounding on US Bancorp (USB), Webster Bank (WBS) et al this morning: I notice that [...]

• Breakfast Links: Toilet Paper Tube Sculptures
  Joshua M Brown, July 30th, 2009 at 6:22 am, Comments: 0

  Stuff I'm Reading this Morning... The Epicurean Dealmaker on Harvard the Hedge Fund.  (TED) Rushkoff on MicroHoo; Calls Yahoo "Microsoft's Prison Yard Bitch".  (Daily Beast) [...]

• Paul Wilmott on High Frequency Trading
  Joshua M Brown, July 29th, 2009 at 1:51 pm, Comments: 0

  This is a very important perspective on what the rise of High Frequency Trading may mean to our markets and the companies that trade on [...]

• Breakfast Links: IPO's, Cramer & the B of A Tower
  Joshua M Brown, July 29th, 2009 at 6:34 am, Comments: 0

  Stuff I'm Reading this Morning... First, I want to wish a happy 4th birthday to Long or Short Capital's site...these guys are great, start reading.  [...]

• Capitalism Lesson #1: Don't Kill Anyone, Just Sue.
  Joshua M Brown, July 28th, 2009 at 10:43 am, Comments: 0

    From the Wall Street Journal: BEIJING -- More than a thousand steel workers in China's northeast staged an at-times violent protest against the planned [...]