Archive for December, 2011

  • Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays or Happy Year End
    Posted by on December 25th, 2011 at 3:41 am, Comments: 0

    Merry Christmas to you and your family. If you don’t do Christmas, then happy holidays or just whatever. Don’t get hung up over the small [...]

  • Great Quotations and Figures from 2011
    Posted by on December 24th, 2011 at 9:01 am, Comments: 0

    During the first 6 months of 2011, Greek immigrants into Germany grew by 84%. Spanish immigration to Germany increased by 49% – a total of [...]

  • Christmas Eve Breakfast Links
    Posted by on December 24th, 2011 at 6:45 am, Comments: 0

    Hope you have a great Christmas. We are having a few people over and going to church tonight. I can’t believe the traffic in Chicago [...]

  • Big Payroll Tax Cut
    Posted by on December 23rd, 2011 at 9:24 am, Comments: 0

    The press is making this whole tax cut thing to be a big victory for Democrats. But is it? The disorganized Republicans passed a two [...]

  • Friday Breakfast Links
    Posted by on December 23rd, 2011 at 7:13 am, Comments: 0

    Hey, who knew you could “trade” beer? It’s a commodity, right? John Cochrane is a great analyst. Too bad no one listens to him. Hyde [...]

  • Letters Home For Christmas
    Posted by on December 22nd, 2011 at 4:31 pm, Comments: 0

    Sometimes you can’t be with your family during the holidays. In December 1944, a father was separated from his wife and children for Christmas. He [...]

  • Investors Do Create Jobs-Millions of Them
    Posted by on December 22nd, 2011 at 8:07 am, Comments: 0

    There is a new theme going around the internet that rich people don’t create jobs. The fact is, they are wrong. Rich people create thousands [...]

  • Thursday Breakfast Links
    Posted by on December 22nd, 2011 at 6:57 am, Comments: 0

    Ho Ho Ho! There may be an accomplice to MF Global. JP Morgan ($JPM)? Funny, of course it’s true. If you are a tech pro, [...]

  • Matt Damon Is Right About Obama
    Posted by on December 21st, 2011 at 2:25 pm, Comments: 0

    Matt Damon has spouted off about Obama. He says Obama lacks the leadership qualities necessary to be President, and I agree with him. “I’ve talked [...]

  • MF Global Plot Thickens With JP Morgan
    Posted by on December 21st, 2011 at 1:37 pm, Comments: 0

    Seems that they found 200 million in some customer funds. They were transferred to JP Morgan ($JPM), their London operation. If there was any doubt [...]

  • Wednesday Breakfast Links
    Posted by on December 21st, 2011 at 6:45 am, Comments: 0

    VC returns were down during the 2000-2010 decade. That’s what happens when you put billions into clean tech. It also doesn’t help that government regulation [...]

  • On This Date In 1976, Richard J. Daley Passed Away
    Posted by on December 20th, 2011 at 7:21 pm, Comments: 0

    The man they called “Boss” passed away 35 years ago today. It was a shocking day for many Chicagoans. He had been mayor for 21 [...]

  • The Media is The One Percent
    Posted by on December 20th, 2011 at 11:21 am, Comments: 0

    The recent meme in the media is that Boehner can’t control his members. The people elected in 2010 are extreme. That’s false. The media that [...]

  • The Millions Are Better Than The Monolith
    Posted by on December 20th, 2011 at 9:00 am, Comments: 0

    Love this, (thanks Insty). Simply love what he has to say, and how he goes after the “ruling class”. If you are paying attention to [...]

  • “You Can’t Have A Recovery Without a Healthy Banking Sector”-BUNK
    Posted by on December 20th, 2011 at 7:54 am, Comments: 0

    Over and over pundits and politicians say that we can’t recover without healthy banks. My question is why? Banks still have bad balance sheets, especially [...]

  • Tuesday Breakfast Links
    Posted by on December 20th, 2011 at 6:19 am, Comments: 0

    It’s winter. There is risk. Hedge your snowfall risk here. Freedom to fascism. Sometimes it doesn’t happen overnight, it happens in an evolutionary way. This [...]

  • The Trading Pit
    Posted by on December 19th, 2011 at 9:39 am, Comments: 0

    I traded in a trading pit for 23 years. Mano e mano. It was hyper physical, and really unlike any other type of business on [...]

  • Paul Krugman Doesn’t Shop Either
    Posted by on December 19th, 2011 at 9:18 am, Comments: 0

    Saw this tongue and cheek blog post about Paul Krugman not knowing how to cook. Clearly Mr. Krugman does spend his Sundays inviting Princeton colleagues [...]