April 8, 2008
Quote of the day comes from a piece up on Bloomberg today. It is purportedly about the environmental consequences of 100 Hiroshima-size nuclear weapons, as the following snippet shows: A nuclear war involving 100 Hiroshima-size bombs would open a massive...
People outside of financial services are much more fascinating with hedge fund managers than are the rest of us. Like many/most of my readers, having spent an unholy amount of time with hedgies over the years, you realize fairly quickly...
Here is Reason #7,732 why Yahoo management is delusional, just in case you needed it: Yahoo Inc. Chairman Roy Bostock said the Internet company's plan to grow on its own received a "very positive'' response from investors, countering reports that...
I love teardowns -- taking apart consumer electronic devices to find what public company components are hiding inside -- and I'm doubly fond of fantasy teardowns. What are those? That's when analysts tear apart, metaphorically speaking, a product that hasn't...
While chairing Money:Tech 2008 I got to see oodles of early-stage financial technology companies, and many of the most interesting were in the New York area. It's nice to see New York leading in this area (along with doing well...
One of my favorite points with young growth companies, whether private or public, is that I focus on the people because the company almost certainly won't end up building what it says it will, so I better like you guys....
Rather than wasting so much time doing pre-emptive reputation management, as he did yesterday in the FT and today in the WSJ, ex- Fed chair Alan Greenspan might mull why so many people think he is so tone deaf to...
In scanning the Fed's minutes from its March meetings my eyes kept glazing over, even more so than usual for such turgid stuff. So I decided to check the document's readability, via the Flesch-Kincaid test. Here is the result: How...
I'm briefly on CNBC's Power Lunch today in about an hour, at noon EST. Talking tech stocks, earnings, GPS, etc. If you have anything particularly striking you think worth mentioning, feel free to post it here. [Update] Some stocks I...
