Archive for November, 2009

• Help to Defeat the Mindless Trader Tax
  Joshua M Brown, November 30th, 2009 at 6:14 pm, Comments: 0

  There's a petition online to oppose the so-called Trader Tax bill (H.R. 1068, also known as the "Let Wall Street Pay for Wall Street's Bailout [...]

• How the Stock Market is Like My 3 Year Old Daughter
  Joshua M Brown, November 30th, 2009 at 10:41 am, Comments: 0

  I'm finding a great deal of similarity recently between the stock market and my 3 year old daughter. They both: Like shiny silver and gold [...]

• Big Business and Big Government: Let the Apathy Olympics Begin!
  Joshua M Brown, November 30th, 2009 at 9:34 am, Comments: 0

  Nothing that Obama has proposed, that Geithner has enacted or that Krugman has cheerleaded has meant a damn thing for small businesses in the US.

• Hot Links: Smart People, Natural Gas Glut & The Cupcake Bubble
  Joshua M Brown, November 30th, 2009 at 7:22 am, Comments: 0

  Stuff I'm Reading this Morning... Bernanke on The Hill this Thursday.  The Fed will fight back.  (InvestingContrarian) Is there any truth to the monetary cycle [...]

• Heartbreak Hotel Delinquencies Up Fivefold
  Joshua M Brown, November 29th, 2009 at 12:12 pm, Comments: 0

  They put up more boutique/ trendy hotels in NYC over the last 4 years than I could possibly name here.  I never could figure out [...]

• Another Sell-Side Joke: Earnings Estimates for 2020
  Joshua M Brown, November 29th, 2009 at 8:22 am, Comments: 0

  Here's yet another exhibit for the jury to consider in the case of Sanity v. Sell-Side Research: Ladies and Gentlemen, I present Barclays Bank on [...]

• Mutual Fund B Shares Face Extinction
  Joshua M Brown, November 29th, 2009 at 7:19 am, Comments: 0

  The demonization of "B Shares" continues as even more mutual fund families drop this share class from the roster. From the Wall Street Journal: Lately, [...]

• Saturday Night Video: Muppets, Aceyalone & Lego Matrix
  Joshua M Brown, November 28th, 2009 at 5:18 pm, Comments: 0

  In case you haven't seen the majesty that is The Muppets covering Queen, here is Bohemian Rhapsody. Jim Henson would be pleased... [vodpod id=Groupvideo.4046432&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] The [...]

• John Mauldin on Being an Optimist and the Coming Millennium Wave
  Joshua M Brown, November 28th, 2009 at 1:57 pm, Comments: 0

  I am not sure where the new jobs will come from, but they will. Just as they did in 1975. -John Mauldin, November 2009 For [...]

• Technics 1200 Turntable: Saddest Casualty of the Digital Age Yet
  Joshua M Brown, November 28th, 2009 at 10:02 am, Comments: 0

  Only real Hip Hop fans will truly understand the significance of what I'm about to discuss... Yes I love my iPod and no, I'm certainly [...]