Last night, I was at a Jewish Federation Dinner with a few thousand charitable Phoenix friends. Many of my partners and clients were in the room and the pre-event is always the best part where we chat about things. Many of my clients are in their 60’s, having seen pretty much all the markets can …

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The short answer – I hope so! All day I get the same question from OLD MEDIA… What about abuse, pump and dump etc… No offense old media, but that is what you have been doing in a really bad way for 20 plus years. Here is my standard template response for all you media …

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Mr. Doug Kass, of Seabreeze Partners and long-time great writer for TheStreet.com is out with a great article covering why he is no longer net short. The media has spun it into Doug calling for a bottom, but if you READ the article , Doug is a long way from being bullish. I love that …

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People I trust and love are calling me mean, negative and even pompous of late. Screw them! Just kidding. I am cranky, and negative (focused) and I guess pompous lately talking about Stocktwits and my book and I have been mean. If it was just some anonymous haters, I would brush it off. It’s not …

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Very few people are making money now. I have almost stopped trying. The lunatics are running the assylum. Donald Trump is a business god with books galore, but he has lost more common shareolder value for Americans than 99 percent of the population could dream of. One hundred time gold medalist is not just dumb …

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As our money flows out the back door of our government in ever increasing, dumb and secretive ways, I think it is time to put the crisis in a little perspective. Why are the financial companies getting all the money, if any, especially in the no holds barred fashion to date. From what I have …

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I have never need a bailout. I am confident that if I needed one, I could not go to our government. Nor Robert Sarver. I can’t say I fully understand TARP (Troubled Asset relief Program), but I am skeptical of it nonetheless for the yutz’s that created it can’t be trusted. TARP is a shitty …

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We are truly at a financial and cultural inflection point. If we are not in a depression financially , we are there in spirit. If we have learned just ONE thing from the financial and political collapse in America, it’s that there are NO experts and NO such thing as SMART money or SMART politicians. …

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Disclosure – I am biased and conflicted as a co-founder of Stocktwits an investor in Tweetdeck , and a tiny investor in Twitter. When I think of Twitter, I think of one of my favorite movies ‘There Will Be Blood’: Unlike Daniel who when looking at a map of his the oil territories asks his …

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Need some blog and Twitter time off after a crazy eight days in New York. All-Star NBA game is in Phoenix and Max and I will be in hoop mode. Tonight was The Shorty Awards and Greg did a great job pulling off the event. I have had a surreal week seeing my book in …

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