August 5, 2008
These FOMC statements should be banned. They are a tired exercise in reader-hostile word-smithing, a conscious attempt to hide meaning and abuse language. Check the following for the MS Word track changes on today's statement. Then try to explain how...
Entertainingly neck-snapping day out there on the markets with stocks that were down yesterday going speedily higher. Here is a list of the top twenty stocks that were down yesterday, and up today, sorted by total distance traveled over the...
Quick heads-up that I'm guest hosting "The Call" on CNBC tomorrow from 11am to noon EST (8am-9am PST). Send topic ideas and I'll try....
I need a word. I want one that describes that delighted feeling you get when you discover that a subject that used to soak up a lot of cognitive cycles no longer requires any. I'm going to suggest "Yahoo!", but...
One of the most consistently provocative conferences I attended last year -- my own Money:Tech 2008 aside, of course -- was Eric Norlin's Defrag conference. Oodles of interesting people, lots of great conversation and all of it aimed at one...
