dear hand baskets,
when people ask me what i’m buying these days (stock-wise), I respond, “hand baskets.”
“Hand baskets?” they respond.
“Yeah, everything seems to be going to hell in a hand basket these days, so I might as well own stock”.
(Credit goes to my boy Graig for coming up with that one)
But still, Mr. Basket, you […]

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the letter format all taken of. sigh.
a letter to president obama from bill gross.

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This is the donald at his finest. Seriously. You MUST watch it. Whether you agree or not, super-entertaining. And, on balance, I agree with my boy, Mr. Trump.
Watch DT on CNBC.
Agree:
- Oil companies are just having a field day and making a freaking killing. There was a reason why we had public utilities at one […]

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The stock markets for the past 3 weeks has been just fascinating. And by fascinating, I mean quite crazy and on most days, quite painful.
I studied Finance at Rutgers, and we learned a lot about how “efficient” the markets were. How all available and whispered about information is efficiently synthesized by the vast army of […]

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I shudder to even write the words, but I have to wonder if another stock market tech bubble is forming. The last time we were here, at the end of the last/beginning of the current decade, everyone’s cash flowed into tech and telecom because it seemed like a sure thing. Exuberance all around. Today, the […]

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I had this grand theory a few years back that our society was descending into cannibalism. While I guess that could be a literal descent into eating our fellow man and woman, but I mean it in a metaphoric way.
I’m sure there are better examples, but for our purposes let’s use the companies Costco and […]

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