October 2009

Android 2.0 gets Facebook integration and a car mode With the 4G iPhone coming, will it be enough? FT.com - Apple leaps ahead with 47% profits surge No one's complaining about this, are they? RUMOR: Verizon and Apple Already…

David Einhorn delivered a speech at the 2009 Value Investing Conference that is creating a lot of buzz in the blogosphere. He said a lot of interesting things about the investing and political climate.  A surprising amount of it comes…

In my recent post on greed, I wrote about how for the last generation corporations have been trying to get out of as many of their expensive obligations to workers as they can reasonably get away with.  The list of obligations includes…

In today’s morning with Dave article, Gluskin Sheff’s Chief Economist and Strategist says the macro environment makes it look like 2007 all over again – as if the crisis never happened. It’s like 2008 and early 2009 never happened. Hong…

The title of this post is somewhat misleading – designed to be provocative to get you to read what I have to say. Indeed, I am going to defend Goldman Sach’s right to pay what it likes to its employees. But, I am also going to defend your…

BB&T report slumps as credit issues weigh | Reuters And they are generally considered better managed. More investors overweight equities: Citigroup | Reuters Even more evidence of an asset-based recovery Government banks…

Wolfgang Munchau of the Financial Times wrote a very important comment piece in today’s Financial Times. In it he said that central banks are targeting asset prices to avoid the brunt of cyclical downturns. This policy is inducing asset…

Further proof that the reflationary efforts of policy makers is taking hold comes from London in the form of record high house prices.  The Guardian reports: Property asking prices in London have broken through the record high set…

Supply-Side Economics, R.I.P. | Bruce Bartlett Repudiation of Bush. Not all tax cuts are created equal. How Hillary Clinton Was Reborn As Secretary of State -- New York Magazine Is her star rising? Another Goldman executive…

From the FDIC: San Joaquin Bank, Bakersfield, California, was closed today by the California Department of Financial Institutions, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver. To protect the depositors,…