Paul Krugman of the New York Times is calling this economic decade ‘The Big Zero ‘. It was a decade in which nothing good happened, and none of the optimistic things we were supposed to believe turned out to be true. Paul and I smoke insanely different tobacco. As an entrepreneur that has managed a …
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'Too Slick to Succeed?'…Not In America Baby!
Ponzi schemes are at all-time highs according to the Associated Press . Ponzi schemes, named for infamous swindler Charles Ponzi, are extremely simple: Investors attracted by promises of high profits are paid with money from an ever-increasing pool of new investors, with the scammer skimming off the top. Sometimes the investments are at least partially …
Overheard on StockTwits: $AMZN and $AAPL Win, $T FAIL
Each day we dive into the StockTwits stream and pull out the morning pearls of wisdom. Here’s what we found today:
The Top 100 Ticker Symbols of 2009 on Stocktwits
Data, data, data…that’s the drumroll of the new web. Soren has been hard at work behind the scenes at Stocktwits, looking at the data, organizing it and thinking of different ways to display it. We all want tomorrow’s page one news today, and the confidence to make the appropriate trade/investment on the information. I am …
Overheard on StockTwits: Santa Rally and New Leadership
Each day we jump into the StockTwits stream and pull out the morning greatness. Here’s what we found today:
Bank of Apple Revisted…
I have long hated bankers/banks on this blog. I hate their hours (the fake long ones and the true banker hours), I hate their attire, I hate the offices and shrines they built for themselves with shareholder money to feign trust. Of course bankers and banks serve a purpose, but it’s a simple job. Our …
State of The Financial Message Industry
Many in the financial world dismiss Stocktwits as a message board. Thank goodness. Gives us some breathing room to build. Yesterday a friend sent me an email pointing out how relatively large the StockTwits community has gotten. He compared the number of messages about $AAPL to both Motley Fool and Yahoo Message Boards. Here’s what …