Archive for October, 2009

• J&R Music World's Wall Street Commercial
  Joshua M Brown, October 31st, 2009 at 12:43 pm, Comments: 0

  [vodpod id=Groupvideo.3740357&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26]
  I hate to admit this, but they pretty much nailed it.
  LOL

• Happy Halloween from TRB
  Joshua M Brown, October 31st, 2009 at 9:51 am, Comments: 0

  Editors Note: This post originally appeared on October 17th 2009. Have a Happy Halloween and Enjoy!

  Its that time of year again...
  As we speak, your neighborhood freak is busy shoving rusty screws into the Milky Way bars, teen boys are stocking up on eggs and toilet paper and teen girls are shopping for either a [...]

• Hot Links: Dimon and the Dollar
  Joshua M Brown, October 31st, 2009 at 7:20 am, Comments: 0

  Hot Links for Weekend Reading...
  The Madoff prison interview.  (NYP)
  The Jamie Dimon book, Last Man Standing, reviewed in the Times.  (NYT)
  Strolling the Smart Phone Red Light District with Baruch.  (UltimiBarbarorum)
  Kedrosky on Creativity and Compression, a must read for writers/ bloggers.  (InfectiousGreed)
  Dollar got its swagger back this week.  (Bloomberg)
  Bored with the Nintendo Wii.  (Clusterstock)

• The Dollar, Stock Seesaw…Still Running the Show
  Joshua M Brown, October 30th, 2009 at 11:11 am, Comments: 0

  Yep, still running the show.

• Goldman Sachs is the Yankees, Citigroup is the Mets
  Joshua M Brown, October 30th, 2009 at 8:15 am, Comments: 0

  There's a delicious irony about New York baseball and New York banks that I think is worth discussing in light of the imminent Yankees World Series victory.
  As baseball fans throughout the nation piss and moan about the fact that the Yankees have the wealth of NY to draw upon when pricing tickets, broadcast rates and payroll budgets, [...]

• Hot Links: Smoke, Mirrors and Record Bonuses
  Joshua M Brown, October 30th, 2009 at 6:21 am, Comments: 0

  Stuff I'm Reading this Morning...
  John Crudele: The recovery is all smoke and mirrors.  (NYP)
  Happy 50 millionth visitor to The Big Picture!  (TBP)
  Merrill Lynch and Wells Fargo strategists on what the Treasury's walking away will mean for interest rates.  (SmartMoney)
  11 strangest deductions the IRS allows (yes, breast implants are on the list).  (Kiplinger)
  David Merkel gets political [...]

• Ayn Rand Eviscerated in GQ
  Joshua M Brown, October 29th, 2009 at 6:47 pm, Comments: 0

  I've not read anything by Andrew Corsello before, but his evisceration of Ayn Rand in GQ magazine is a thing of caustic, vicious and snark-filled beauty.
  I did my share of battle with the Rand Cult earlier this fall when I interviewed her Ghost to discuss capitalism's share of blame for the credit crisis.  Corsello never [...]

• iPhone Halloween Costume
  Joshua M Brown, October 29th, 2009 at 12:13 pm, Comments: 0

  This is pretty cool, these guys strapped giant LCD TVs to themselves to become iPhones for Halloween.  Don't trip, guys!

  Hat Tip Eric Jackson (Ironfire Capital)

• Dear Motley Fool: Please Stop Spamming Yahoo Finance
  Joshua M Brown, October 29th, 2009 at 9:09 am, Comments: 0

  Dear Motley Fool,
  Please stop spamming Yahoo Finance.  For every 5 Motley Fool articles Yahoo links to in the Headlines section, I estimate 2 or 3 of them are a thinly veiled landing page for you to sell a newsletter subscription.  I don't have a problem with the pitch, just the disguising of that pitch in [...]

• Q3 GDP and Jobless Claims First Look
  Joshua M Brown, October 29th, 2009 at 8:04 am, Comments: 0

  Two big numbers out this morning, we'll put up the initial take on both:
  GDP (from Bloomberg)
  The U.S. economy grew in the third quarter for the first time in more than a year, propelled by stimulus-driven gains in consumer spending and home building.  The world’s largest economy expanded at a 3.5 percent pace from July through [...]