Archive for May, 2011
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Hey, you ding dongs! I know you think we just blog away in our drawers all day, sipping cheap wine through a straw, blowing cigar smoke out of a half opened window, and cheering on the horse racing. And to be honest, on many days you would be correct. But not today, my friends. Well [...]
It’s All Ball Bearings These Days
I tend to be a different type of cat. Sometimes bad. Sometimes not so bad. You’re going to hear at some point today about the housing market and how the new numbers for April were ATROCIOUS. New construction has PLUMMETED. Condos and apartment building construction down 28%. Home builders are going to say some god [...]
Where’s the Beef?
Remember, in perhaps the greatest comedy of all-time, “Fletch”, when Frank, Fletch’s boss, the newspaper editor, shows Fletch the full page ad they run in the paper promoting the story that Fletch is supposed to have completed by the upcoming Sunday? He tells Fletch, “Fletch we NEED that story. Because you can’t run the ad, [...]
Out of Wood
Right about now, the United States of America just technically ran out of money. Yep. No bell went off or any alarms, but we ran out of wheat, jake, benjamins, wood, wampum, or any other word you want to use to describe cold hard cash. Now of course, this is a “mere” technicality, as the [...]
Now The Pitchforks Might Be Coming
Soooo, bloomberg.com is reporting that these 2 ladies are suing AIG, yeah THAT AIG, for sexual discrimination. They claim that because they were old women, they were dismissed, and not treated fairly. Um, maybe you got fired because your firm had to get 182 BILLION DOLLARS (said like Dr. Evil from Austin Powers) so, the [...]
Blogging Today? Not So Much
I love you all dearly. I really do. But today i’ll be taking a “mental health day” or “telecommuting” or “at a meeting offsite and hard to reach” or whatever people call it these days when they play hooky and goof off.
Curry For Lunch or Last Supper?
I must say, I was very disappointed in this Galleon “Fat Raj” insider trading trial. Oh sure, they just found “Fat Raj” guilty on ALL counts and he will be going to jail for quite some time, but there just wasn’t the great drama and one liners, that I was hoping for. I mean there’s [...]
I Got Your Luxury Items Right Heaaaaah!
Tough times when it comes to high end goods. And I’m not even talking about gross margins or year over year sales.
Ahhh Schoolin’
Going out on a few more tours of the fine NYC public school system’s finest this morning. I promise this will all be through tomorrow as we have to make a decision by midnight as to what our top choices are for the fall for public school for our soon-to-be 3rd grader. Then I will [...]
Don’t Job Me
Boy, this has been as good a week for the President, since I can remember. Now we have 244,000 jobs created in April, above the market consensus. The unemployment number sadly climbed to 9% though from 8.8%. I’m sure there will be some brainiac politician to point out how we should NOT look at just [...]
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