If you dare call yourself an entrepreneur, read James Altucher’s piece below to ensure your self-applied title is legit. Today’s links also include a negative outlook on Zillow’s IPO, a great write-up on Fannie’s economic outlook, and a word on home appraisals from FoxBusiness—so it has to be legit. -Fannie Mae Outlook: Economy Hits Air
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In the classic movie Big, Tom Hanks, a boy trapped in a man’s body, watches 40-something toy company executives pitch a new toy and responds with a simple boyish dissent: “I don’t get it.” This direct approach breathes new life into a staid environment, reinvents the toy, and the company goes gangbusters. It’s not quite
Earlier this week, the NBER was a year late calling the end of the recession. And back in December 2008, they were a year late calling the beginning. The Daily Show video below is a good bit on the end of the recession, but still doesn’t top Paul Kedrosky’s masterful tweet a few days ago:
This post is a few days late because I don’t watch FoxBusiness, but Cody Willard who co-anchored their recently cancelled market wrap show Happy Hour has left the network. In what many would call true-to-Fox form, they blocked Willard’s farewell blog post even though he called his experience with Fox a “dream job.” Click link
Dear Cody: I checked into your Happy Hour show yesterday on FoxBusiness and saw you cut your hair. I’m writing to say: good choice and keep it short. I know you’re a rocker by night and all that, but you were looking eerily like the UPS guy (a side-by-side visual aid provided here), and as
Three months ago, I wrote an Open Letter to Dylan Ratigan with my case as to why he should stick with financial media after his departure from CNBC. At the time I laid out two options that seemed most probable for him: So as you evaluate new options, I am sure there are many but
Dear Dylan: I read about your fiery departure from CNBC, and that’s the only way I would have heard about it because I stopped watching CNBC around January 2008. CNBC had been a critical part of my all-day regimen for 13 years, but I stopped watching because CNBC turned into your typical shouting-match cable news
Fox Business News launched in October 2007, two months after the financial crisis began, with lowbrow programming like their market wrap show Happy Hour which takes place in a bar and features segments like Quick Shots where they offer stock picks. To some, it lacks financial credibility but to Fox it brings the broadest possible
FoxNews anchor Neil Cavuto interviewed his boss today, and there were three topic areas of particular interest in the wide-ranging interview. First, here’s what News Corp head Rupert Murdoch had to say about regulation and taxation regardless of who is the next president. Also see below for what Murdoch said about taxpayers and the massive
On Tuesday, March 11, CNBC Mad Money host Jim Cramer said that Bear Stearns was fine. On Sunday, March 16, JP Morgan Chase announced a bid to take over Bear Stearns for $2 per share with the Federal Reserve as a backup to help with liquidity on bad Bear Stearns debt. This week, Fox Business