On the flight over, I watched some Chapelle videos. The guy is unbelievably funny, and his show was terrifically ballsy.
We met with lots of people this week — maybe that’s why this video resonated.
Its an oldie but a goodie — watch the old white lady’s face as she nods in [...]
Bizarrely amusing:
The first installment of Chap-Hop superstar Mr.B the Gentleman Rhymer’s ‘Histories’ series. The history of hip-hop. In five minutes. On the banjolele. Chap-Hop hoorah! Directed by Dave Alexander.
I had lunch last week with Rolfe Winkler, who is an up and comer in the blog world, a thinking man’s Felix Salmon.
He is similarly annoyed with St. Warren — but rather than engage in my sophmoric venom spew, he went to the spreadsheet to discover that Buffet owns [...]
This is way too funny:
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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The 11/3 Project www.thedailyshow.com Daily ShowRandall Forsyth steps in occasionally for the Up and Down Wall Street column when Alan Abelson is on vacation or otherwise indisposed. He writes with a similar skepticism, perhaps not as dark as Abelson’s, his prose sparer, a tad less purple.
Beyond the literary mechanics, however, Forsyth’s grasp of all that [...]
Due to an unexpected outbreak of rationality (and perhaps embarrassment), the Treasury department has rejected requests of Goldman Sachs and Berkshire Hathaway to purchase Tax Credits from Fannie Mae.
This paper transaction would have provided precisely zero value to the taxpayers, and allowed these firms to add to the piles of [...]
The Glide Path Option
November 6, 2009
Peter Boockvar, Barry Ritholtz, David Kotok, Prieur du Plessis, Guest Author, John Mauldin, Jim Welsh, Marion Maneker, David Rosenberg, Michael Panzner, James Bianco, Rick Ambrose, Bill King, Tim Iacono, Kent Thune, Chris Whalen
