Archive for October, 2009

• Bank Hell: Now Serving Number 106
  Joshua M Brown, October 26th, 2009 at 11:41 am, Comments: 0

  Here's a stat that doesn't get a ton of attention but continues to increase... From the AFP: WASHINGTON — The number of failed regional US [...]

• Big Week For Econ Data, All Eyes On Q3 GDP
  Joshua M Brown, October 26th, 2009 at 8:03 am, Comments: 0

  Virtually everyone I speak with on The Street is looking toward Thursday morning's GDP report for the 3rd quarter of 2009.  This is supposedly THE [...]

• Hot Links: Pete Rose, Harvard & SpongeBob SquarePants
  Joshua M Brown, October 26th, 2009 at 6:20 am, Comments: 0

  Stuff I'm Reading this Morning... Rally notwithstanding, insider buying down big, insider selling triples.  (PragCap) What on earth is going on at TheStreet.com?  (ZeroHedge) Harvard [...]

• Jeffry Picower, a Madoff Castmember, Found Dead
  Joshua M Brown, October 25th, 2009 at 9:54 pm, Comments: 0

  This development is sure to ignite a torrent of speculation and conspiracizing this week... From the New York Times: Jeffry M. Picower, a prominent philanthropist [...]

• Hot Links: Sunday Night With the Pumpkins
  Joshua M Brown, October 25th, 2009 at 5:23 pm, Comments: 0

  Here's a few quick links from the weekend worth checking out... Suspicious: Why is Citigroup abruptly cutting off their gas card program with little explanation [...]

• Bohemian Bankruptcy
  Joshua M Brown, October 25th, 2009 at 8:11 am, Comments: 0

  I don't usually post song parody videos as the vast majority of them are corny. Every time someone sends me a video of MBA students [...]

• Blaming Retail Investors for Commodity Prices
  Joshua M Brown, October 25th, 2009 at 7:01 am, Comments: 0

  "Commodity index rolls have little futures price impact, and inflows and outflows from commodity index investment do not cause futures prices to change" I haven't [...]

• Wal-Mart: Emerging Markets Investing Guru
  Joshua M Brown, October 24th, 2009 at 11:49 am, Comments: 0

  I caught this in Barron's today and thought it was a remarkably interesting story.  Apparently, Wal-Mart (WMT) has a knack for picking emerging markets to [...]

• Hot Links: Rules of the Internet
  Joshua M Brown, October 24th, 2009 at 7:32 am, Comments: 0

  Hot Links for Weekend Reading... Joe Nocera: Where's Our Bonus?  (NYT) The truth about yesterday's Existing Home Sales data.  (TheBigPicture) The Hoffmans's continue flogging Roubini, [...]

• Seven Things You Should Know 9/23/09
  Joshua M Brown, October 23rd, 2009 at 2:22 pm, Comments: 0

  Seven Things You Should Know October 23rd 2009 1. The trailing 10-year total return for the S&P 500 as of the end of 2008 was [...]