FAILURE is good! My witty friend Barry Ritholtz who is a fantastic writer has a new book coming out called ‘Bailout Nation ‘. Such a great title for the times and it should do big numbers. I expect a free signed copy though Barry… As catchy a title as it is given the times, it …

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It will be a very interesting week in the markets, one in which I head into long some favorite names, but nervous. I will get to a deeper post on the markets later Sunday. I am scouring the web for edges and there are great arguments on both sides. My only gut instinct short-term is …

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Great weekend post over on Fred’s Blog and the discussion has a lot of smart media people chiming in on the subject. Take the time to go read it and all the comments. My friend Darren Herman added this: This conversation is a great one with lots of extremely quality people contributing. I’d like to …

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There is no dumber day in America. We should be embarrassed that we continue to be conned after the year that we have had. No amount of shopping will make up for the stupidity of the retailers over the last 7 years of expansion. Not only is retail overbuilt at a time when the consumer …

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As the world has flattened, the web has become overwhelming for many. That’s why Yahoo gets the traffic for now, but it’s stock languishes. Traffic is no longer the only shizzle for a web business. As we enter the next phase of the web, discovery and filters will continue to take the traffic away from …

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We all do it. Mostly lazy and backwards thinking and if we continue to do it, we will eventually implode. Carl Icahn is reeling in losses from his purchase of a bazillion shares of Yahoo in the mid 20’s this summer. He is now supposedly ratcheting up his trade as the stock trades at $10. …

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I am with my friend and newly graduated student Maximo who I am reblogging his comment from Fred’s post: I don’t know how useful this will be to a trader, but here is my view because the question you ask is an excellent question not just for investors but everyone who cares about this country. …

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Congrats to friends Jon Labes and Talia Pulver for continuing to innovate and break ground in the web video business with PLENTITUBE.COM . I am very biased as a tiny angel and close friend to Jon who filmed most of my ‘Naked Putz’ shows at Wallstrip and was our first hire with Roman. Their company …

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Building on Twitter has been fun. Soren just gets this stuff and with the help of our development team are thinking way far out on integration and win/win features and benefits for the stocktwits community and twitter’s as a whole. Take a Read of Fred’s post who is better at explaining StockTwits new Firefox extension …

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We have three major problems forgetting the nightmare ‘FAILouts’ for the moment: 1. Google 2. Facebook 3. Government Google has no legs. The Dow just rallied 1,000 points and Google is lower. Who cares the reasons, but when a cash flow machine full of cash and piss and vinegar won’t budge, you can’t get me …

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