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Yesterday my wife said to me, “Did you hear about the head of BP?” I said, “What now?” “He was at a yacht race yesterday….can you believe that!!?” I thought for about a millisecond and said, “Sure I can!”
The "Moneyed" Crowd
Last night, I finally watched my “Wall Street: 20th Anniversary DVD” that I gotforChristmas. Now they’ve just put out the sequel 20+ years later.My DVDhad a few special features that werekind of interesting. The 1989originalmovie is still awesome andteaches so many lessons that are probably even MORE relevant today. I mean the director, Oliver Stone, [...]
The Business of Sports
The NBA had as good as a final ending to their season that they could expect last night. The LA Lakers (2nd biggest TV market) beat their rival Boston Celtics (huge East Coast following) in Game 7. The game came down to the final minute with the Lakers coming from behind. This almost assures a [...]
Media Alert!
Its Thursday so tune in like you always do, to Sirius/XM satellite radio to hear Eric and I on the radio with Pete Dominick on the POTUS network. That’s Channel 110 on Sirius and Channel 130 on XM. That’s 5pm eastern. I’m particularly excited today because I shaved and even showered since I heard a [...]
Just Because….
I have a blog…A little Mike Ness. ”Cheating at Solitaire” I hope you like it.
S&P Up on the Year. That’s Nice.
After yesterday’s further rally, the S&P 500 Index is in positive territory again for 2010. That might be short lived as today’s housing starts number was in the crapper (technical term). But nonetheless, an impressive bounce back to what looked to be Armageddona few weeks ago. So what am I doing about it?
Wouldn’t Want to Be a Banker in Europe Now
Bloomberg.com is reporting that the European Parliament–one of those useless additional layers of government that is another waste of taxpayers money. We have afew here too. The UN comes to mind–has stated that bankers bonuses in Europe who work for banks that accepted public money should be capped at half their salaries. And that NO [...]
Happy 100th Howlin’ Wolf!!
Crazy. Something just tapped me on the shoulder and said, “You got to get yourman Howlin’ Wolf (aka Chester Burnett) on the blog. Sure as sh*t, it turns out last Thursday would have been his 100th birthday!
A Drug War We Can Win
So with all the back and forth talk on oil slicks and leadership issues last week, a little “battle royale” was ensuing with some pharmacy companies. Oh yes. Walgreen’s (ticker: WAG) and CVS Caremark (ticker: CVS and a core holding of ours), got into a major throwdown. First, Walgreen’s decided that they didn’t want CVS [...]
Take Your Vuvuzela and Your Dividend and Stick It!
Good Lord. Lets make up a new rule. Any country looking to host ANY sporting event that I either want to watch (like The World Cup) or have to watch (like what Richie refers to as “The Tennis”) may not have a local freaking noise maker like this vuvuzela in South Africa that 90,000 people blow [...]
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