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October 14, 2007
Sneak Peek at Weekend Reading
Here is a sneak peek at some links for my weekly Weekend Reading column over at TheStreet.com:
- Profile of hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones (NY Times)
- Microsoft's $12-billion advertising sales target can only be hit by major acquisitions (AdAge)
- Expectations for online advertising may be getting outsized (Reuters)
- Profile of Firsthand's Kevin Landis, back puffing away about tech stocks (NY Times)
- Research: Fama & French on dissecting market anomalies (JoF)
- Mega-yachts are apparently "indispensable" (IHT)
- How two Bear Stearns hedge fund set off the global credit crunch (Business Week)
- The worriers are out now that Google has crossed $600 (NY Times)
- Depression rates ranked by occupation (LA Times)
- Funny Michael Kinsley review of Alan Greenspan's new book (NY Times)
- Mark Cuban is learning some hard lessons (Fortune)
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Wow, what a shitty hatchet job by Fortune on Cuban. You know the writer is a hack when he throws in filler phrases like 'The money was nothing to him' in order to bait readers. Not sure why you linked to such a crappy piece.
Ajay -- Within reason, I try to link to articles that will have people in & around financial markets talking next week. The articles typically either present new information, or look at a known subject in a different way. That is not the same thing as saying I endorse the conclusion(s) of every piece, whether Fortune's contretemps with Cuban, or others.
I was not implying that you endorse the conclusion, I simply disagree that the article presents new information or is useful in any way. I suppose you could argue that the article looks at Cuban in a different way, to the extent that it downplays all his accomplishments and tries to put him down, but again there's nothing new factually added there. Perhaps you only skimmed it but my contention is that it's a badly-written hatchet job.
Nice Google hatchet job in the NYTimes Saturday. Aside from the fact that this same basic story has been written a hundred times -- and 550 points -- since they came public, I'd take Steve Lohr's arguments more seriously if he either checked his facts or his spelling. That new search engine is Hakia, not "Haika."
Paul, Thanks for the article. Your weekend readings are real gems.