November 06, 2009 –
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RELATED TICKERS: MSFT
, AAPL
, VZ
As per the link referenced below, I agree that while apparently Microsoft finally got it close to right with Windows 7; now they need to work on their ads. Their current campaign is almost as lame as the Verizon ads that brag if you buy an iPhone from AT&T all you get is 85,000 applications to help make your life easier and more fun but if you buy a Verizon-networked phone, you get two maps, one of which is irrelevant to you. [more]
November 06, 2009 –
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RELATED TICKERS: GS
, C
, BAC
Charlie Gasparino is an experienced CNBC reporter (formerly of Newsweek and WSJ) with great sources who has just published a book on the financial meltdown, so his opinion carries considerable weight. In an op-ed piece published in the WSJ today, he decries the role of policy makers for not only the “push” of making easy money available and bailing out risk takers, but the “pull” of “transform[ing] home ownership [from] something that must be earned into something close to a civil right.” [more]
November 04, 2009 –
WBCN 104.1 Boston was one of the first radio stations in the USA to adopt a progressive rock format in 1968. While apparently never a great profit center—the station has changed ownership many times over the decades and infamously met one new owner who fired a bunch of staffers with a mass strike that succeeded in forcing the rehiring of everyone—they had a cadre of highly creative DJs who loved the music—one of the originals was Peter Wolf who on the side was in the process of becoming lead vocalist for the J. Geils Band—and were given free reign to play and talk about whatever music worked, which occasionally might be a classical piece or jazz, in addition to lots of music from new bands. The station also had a show geared toward prison inmates, a lost pet finding service, wrote their own ads for their sponsors which were often hilarious, and a provocative news director (Danny Schechter, the News Dissector) who generally complemented his reporting with an appropriate tune constituting an arch editorial comment. [more]
October 23, 2009 –
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RELATED TICKERS: DNDN
, OSTK
, C
Check out this post on Deep Capture detailing Senator Ted Kaufman’s efforts to recruit cosponsors for his efforts to require the SEC to reinstate the uptick rule and enforce other regulations against abusive short selling. Below is my letter to our North Carolina senators, Kay Hagan and Richard Burr (and please consider sending letters of your own; Deep Capture has a convenient link to all 100 senators’ e-mail interfaces): [more]
October 22, 2009 –
A friend of Hillary’s passed over for Attorney General by Janet Reno, she found herself running the Commodities Futures Trading Commission in 1996 and to her growing alarm, discovered potential dangers in the unregulated multi-trillion dollar derivatives market…but when her CFTC proposed regulations, Alan Greenspan, Larry Summers, and Robert Rubin moved to crush her. [more]
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