Archive for December, 2009

• Apologies… (in which TRB says he's sorry to those he wrongly lashed out at this year)
  Joshua M Brown, December 28th, 2009 at 10:52 am, Comments: 0

  Like most bloggers, I have a big fat mouth and sometimes it opens before the brain it's attached to can complete the necessary processes. UNLIKE [...]

• Gary Dvorchak's Look at 2010's Smartphone Wars
  Joshua M Brown, December 28th, 2009 at 9:20 am, Comments: 0

  Gary Dvorchak did an excellent 2010 Year in Review piece on TheStreet.com this morning. That's not a typo, he's got the same type of imagination that I have and has put it to use in order to formulate a list of events that could take place in the coming year...

• Hot Links: Global Currency, Super Bowl Ads & The Big Zero Decade
  Joshua M Brown, December 28th, 2009 at 7:54 am, Comments: 0

  Hot Links for Morning Reading...

• More Evidence That High CEO Pay Is Detrimental To Shareholders
  Joshua M Brown, December 27th, 2009 at 7:06 pm, Comments: 0

  I'm gonna keep harping on this issue until Say On Pay gets done for shareholders and apparently, so will Jason Zweig. If you're not familiar [...]

• A Return to Normalcy…on the Surface
  Joshua M Brown, December 27th, 2009 at 2:08 pm, Comments: 0

  These are not empirical data points, to be sure, but are they worth noticing? Do they signal a return to the way things were?

• Corporate Boards: A National Embarrassment
  Joshua M Brown, December 27th, 2009 at 7:14 am, Comments: 0

  Gretchen Morgenson takes on one of the most crucial factors of our decennis horribilis in the stock market: the failure of corporate board culture.

• about that 00's decade…
  Joshua M Brown, December 26th, 2009 at 6:11 pm, Comments: 0

  about that 00's decade...

• The Myth of the Moat
  Joshua M Brown, December 26th, 2009 at 3:00 pm, Comments: 0

  It's not that The Moat doesn't matter in stock selection, it's that, like most analytic concepts, it doesn't always matter.

• "You Underestimate My Sneakiness"
  Joshua M Brown, December 26th, 2009 at 11:00 am, Comments: 0

  Christmas F Words: Family, Friends, Fezziwig, Fireplace, Fa La La, Frosty the Snowman, etc. This year, we got two more: Fannie and Freddie, the GSE's [...]

• Punishing the Ant, Rewarding the Grasshopper
  Joshua M Brown, December 26th, 2009 at 5:59 am, Comments: 0

  One of the more perverse features of the bailout/ rescue/ stimulus plan is the fact that ultra-low rates are doing a great deal of damage to senior citizens and those who have been saving responsibly and coninue to attempt to do so.