From: January 2007

Freedom and Trust

I have lived and travelled many places, but no place feels more free than the streets of Manhattan. What you want, when you want it…and by foot. Ben Stein (Bueller…Bueller) had a great piece today in The New York Times that really struck a chord. My favorite excerpt: When yeoman farmers sent their savings to …

Sleep is good…continued

It’s an old boring story that is quite tiring really :) …..sleep is THE business of the next 20 years. As America ages the businesses that make sleep products will keep making gobs of money. We have covered Ambien’s maker Sanofi-Aventis on Wallstrip. Back in May I detailed the biggest sleep players – Respironics, Resmed, …

The Perfect Red Eye?

I am not sure one exists, but compared to my middle seat hell of the last one, last night’s was perfect. Full row to myself, correct ambien dose and an on time flight. Not sleepy, I had my first meeting with James Altucher of Stockpickr, a site I am using more and more and my …

Airlines on Wallstrip

We love to hate them. Bad service, delays, peanuts, mile high club (ya right), unions, corruption, no livestock (unless its Aeroflot), no internet, no email, no sushi, oil shocks, terrorism. I just hate them and avoid the stocks. I write about them often. My hate has blinded me to some disgusting gains for legacy carriers …

Wallstrip Comes to Phoenix

I am tired of middle seat “red eyes” to New York so Wallstrip came to Phoenix. Some great stuff coming the next 7 days so stay tuned. The weather was an absolute disaster save the 30 minutes of sun that we had to film the first episode. Lindsay made contact a few times and we …