Archive for November, 2009

• John Paulson Likes Gold…More Than a Friend
  Joshua M Brown, November 24th, 2009 at 9:12 am, Comments: 0

  John Paulson of Paulson & Co, the legendary hedge fund manager who made tens of billions betting on the mortgage crisis between 2007 to 2009, [...]

• Hot Links: Too Fat To Graduate
  Joshua M Brown, November 24th, 2009 at 7:26 am, Comments: 0

  Stuff I'm Reading this Morning... Fed to Banks: Payback Time.  (Bloomberg) The nominees for Fund Manager of the Decade.  (FinancialAdvisor) Jeff Saut (Raymond James strategist) [...]

• Whither the Wirehouse?
  Joshua M Brown, November 23rd, 2009 at 1:09 pm, Comments: 0

      Charles Schwab just conducted a poll of 200 financial advisors, all at full service firms (aka wirehouses).  More than half had at least [...]

• The Reformed Broker for Bank of America CEO
  Joshua M Brown, November 23rd, 2009 at 8:42 am, Comments: 0

  After much soul searching and consumption of Skittles over the weekend, I've decided to formally throw my hat in the ring for the position of [...]

• Hot Links: Ernie & Birch
  Joshua M Brown, November 23rd, 2009 at 7:16 am, Comments: 0

  Stuff I'm Reading this Morning... Stocks explode around the world as St Louis Federale makes dovish comments.  (TBP) BIG STORY: Treasuries at 0% for the [...]

• Correcting the Rest of the "Headline Readers" on Goldman Sachs
  Joshua M Brown, November 22nd, 2009 at 6:25 pm, Comments: 0

  There's a pet name I've privately assigned to many of the bloggers out there who are so obsessed with covering every story that they barely [...]

• Trader Mark Spots the Mark-Up Monday Trend
  Joshua M Brown, November 22nd, 2009 at 10:27 am, Comments: 0

  Some of my most profitable and interesting discoveries in the market have occured when I've taken a hunch or gut feeling and then backed that [...]

• Terry Keenan Stuffs This Year's Wall Street Turkeys
  Joshua M Brown, November 22nd, 2009 at 9:48 am, Comments: 0

  The New York Post's always acerbically witty columnist Terry Keenan lines up this year's Wall Street Turkeys and knocks 'em down. The names on the [...]

• Bad Economy = Tight and Tapered Jeans
  Joshua M Brown, November 22nd, 2009 at 7:28 am, Comments: 0

  This is just a random fashion observation I've made recently concerning the tightness of jeans in relation to the overall condition of the economy. Maybe [...]

• Saturday Night Video: Congressman Brady and Sec Treas Geithner Have a Cat Fight
  Joshua M Brown, November 21st, 2009 at 7:01 pm, Comments: 0

  Geithner gets feisty with the Congressman right around the 2:50 mark, but the whole thing is worth watching. Better than that friggin' "V" tv show [...]