Archive for November, 2009

• Hot Links: Fit to be Trampled
  Joshua M Brown, November 28th, 2009 at 9:26 am, Comments: 0

  Hot Links for Weekend Reading... The good news in Dubai is that the Underwater Hotel is weeks away from completion.  (GraspingReality) Here's that piece everyone's [...]

• A Rational Objection to the Trader Tax from Eric Jackson
  Joshua M Brown, November 27th, 2009 at 8:06 pm, Comments: 0

  Traders around the country are erupting in furor over Jim Cramer's unfortunate comments in support of the proposed Trader Tax.  Speaking on CNBC in his [...]

• Dubai World & Bear Stearns: Coal Mine Canaries?
  Joshua M Brown, November 27th, 2009 at 10:59 am, Comments: 0

  Click Image to Embiggen! The meme going around now is that the Dubai debt thing is only the start of a wave of sovereign defaults, [...]

• Dubai Default: Let's Get Ready to Crumble
  Joshua M Brown, November 27th, 2009 at 7:51 am, Comments: 0

  UPDATE HERE: DUBAI AS COMMERCIAL RE CANARY IN THE COAL MINE Dubai's sovereign debt is the disaster du jour, Europe already took a 3% hit [...]

• Black Friday 2009
  Joshua M Brown, November 26th, 2009 at 9:01 am, Comments: 0

  Cartoon by: Dave Granlund (Cagle.com)

• The First Bailout…Happy Thanksgiving from TRB
  Joshua M Brown, November 25th, 2009 at 10:16 am, Comments: 0

  Click Image to Embiggen! Yep, the first Bailout in American history took place in the fall of 1620. Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers - [...]

• SEC Nails MN-Based Currency Trading Fraud
  Joshua M Brown, November 25th, 2009 at 9:37 am, Comments: 0

  The SEC nailed a Minnesota-based currency fraud today, a bust that I believe will be the opening salvo in a much bigger battle to protect [...]

• Hot Links: Jeff Saut, Felix Salmon & the Coffee Wars
  Joshua M Brown, November 25th, 2009 at 7:21 am, Comments: 0

  Stuff I'm Reading this Morning... Goldman Sachs on how to trade the end of the year.  (PragCap) The coffee wars have begun.  (CrossingWallStreet) Does Felix [...]

• New Glossary of Finance Terms Volume II
  Joshua M Brown, November 24th, 2009 at 5:02 pm, Comments: 0

  Back in March, I updated the definitions of several finance terms to better suit the times.  Due to popular demand, I'm bringing this feature back [...]

• A Contrarian Conundrum…and Some Quotations
  Joshua M Brown, November 24th, 2009 at 11:27 am, Comments: 0

  Who is the real contrarian these days? The Bears, who are dead right about how bad the economy is or the Bulls who are dead [...]