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Given Wall Street's tightened purse strings, perhaps it's no surprise that the Wall Street Burger Shoppe and its $175 Richard Nouveau burger couldn't survive the recession, bailout, and fallout. The restaurant, ...READ»
What if you didn't send your money to a faceless investment bank, but instead gave it to a local business? We spoke to author Amy Cortese about local investing, where people keep their capital within 50 miles of where they live.READ»
After years of having their Fannies spanked and their Goldmans smacked, are bankers, brokers, lawyers, and hedge fund managers prepared for the timely return of White Collar Boxing?READ»
StockTwits CEO Howard Lindzon is trying to create a real-time financial news network. How does he expand his influence with competitors as big as CNBC, Google, and Yahoo?READ»
While you were sleeping last night, innovation was stealing your ideas as you dreamed, making huge amounts of money, and then being forced to hand it over in fines.1. The cap on the Deepwater oil leak seems to be holding, but BP is ...READ»
Microsoft has, for the first time, been beaten in market cap by Apple. At the close of the market today, Apple sat at $222.12 billion, a gain of 1.8%, while Microsoft went down 1% to $219.18 billion. That makes Apple, according to ...READ»
Explaining the Wall Street mess:Here’s how I use motivation to explain the Wall Street mess. Can you motivate others? No. Motivation is an internal desire, not an external force.Yes, it is possible to ‘get’ ...READ»
Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich weighed in on the whole FTC investigation of Apple. His conclusion? Get your priorities straight, FTC.READ»
Wall Street's new sarcastic catch-phrase; “The United States of China”. Accurately reflects, China's two trillion dollar sovereign wealth fund surplus that just snapped up over $9 billion worth of shares in some of ...READ»
Always hungry is not a bonus:Once on a walking safari in South Africa I almost became lunch for a charging lioness. Now that it’s bonus season on Wall Street, I’d like to send a few bonus buccaneers on a walking African ...READ»
The market has fallen two weeks in a row and the analysts are already running around like Chicken Little. While it is so tempting to get caught up in these daily dramas, it is also short-sighted. Consider, for example, the case of ...READ»
Friday, September 18, 2009
The Race from Bretton Woods
Poignancy will not be lost in
this edition of the strategist. I write to you this week from Bretton
Woods in
New Hampshire as I prepare to embark on a ...READ»
Friday, September 4, 2009
Cue September
As if simply following the
media script, markets finally pulled back again this week after
relentless gains.
Measuring the severity of the fall, last Friday we closed at ...READ»
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
"Leveling off"
In the Fed’s FOMC release on
Wednesday, Bernanke and Co. asserted that from their vantage point, the
economy is "leveling off". This shift in language from "stabilizing" ...READ»
With Hollywood prepping big-budget versions of Monopoly, Bazooka Joe, and Stretch Armstrong, what's next? Here's another blockbuster that Rooftop Comedy came up with.READ»
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Buy in May
Students of the Stock Traders Almanac will tell
you that market returns over the best six month period of the year (November 1st thru April 30th) tend to trump those of ...READ»
Friday, May 8, 2009
Mr. Waddell Goes to Washington
Earlier this week, Stacie and I had a terrific opportunity to travel to Washington for a comprehensive debriefing. Through my membership in the Society of ...READ»
