Archive for July, 2010

• When The Crowd Discovers Your Indie Stocks
  Joshua M Brown, July 28th, 2010 at 6:15 am, Comments: 0

  You know how when your favorite underground band hits it big you almost can't help but hate that band? This weird revulsion to the sudden widespread popularity of something you had to yourself can also occur in your stock portfolio. And it feels just as weird.

• Recovery Apartheid
  Joshua M Brown, July 27th, 2010 at 6:01 am, Comments: 0

  Imagine if, instead of Earnings Season for the S&P 500, we had a 4 week stretch in which we heard from a different sector of Small Business each night on a series of conference calls.

• Folk Heroes of the Great Recession
  Joshua M Brown, July 26th, 2010 at 1:28 pm, Comments: 0

  The Great Recession, that began sometime in 2007 and has not necessarily ended for most of us, is now producing its own set of folk heroes.

• Fusing With Fusion
  Joshua M Brown, July 26th, 2010 at 8:13 am, Comments: 0

  I'm very excited and proud to announce that I've just joined Fusion Analytics Investment Partners.

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  Joshua M Brown, July 17th, 2010 at 7:01 am, Comments: 0

  The Reformed Broker will return on July 26th.  See you then. - Josh

• things the grandkids should know
  Joshua M Brown, July 16th, 2010 at 5:35 am, Comments: 0

  some stuff about your humble commentator...

• The Serpent Swallows Its Own Tail
  Joshua M Brown, July 15th, 2010 at 5:06 pm, Comments: 0

  Of course Goldman and the SEC settled.

• Counterpoint Re: Deficits are Good
  Joshua M Brown, July 15th, 2010 at 1:42 pm, Comments: 0

  Yesterday I linked to a Daniel Gross post on Slate that deals with some of the positive ways to look at the deficit issue that has [...]

• Natural Gas Trucking Takes Another Step Forward
  Joshua M Brown, July 15th, 2010 at 11:03 am, Comments: 0

  Potential congressional vote next week on elements of the Pickens Plan.

• Consumer Gloom, Small Biz Misery
  Joshua M Brown, July 15th, 2010 at 7:50 am, Comments: 0

  Public company executives are enjoying their Recovery, borrowing for free, hoarding their cash and compensating themselves as if the sun is about to explode. This as the rest of the country looks on in slack-jawed amazement and utter befuddlement.