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Weekend Humour (sic)

Cadged from WFMU.org with my thanks.

 Twenty-Four Reasons to hope for a stock market crash in the new millennium
By Dave Mandl
Art by Bob Piersanti

 

  • Cheap TriBeCa real estate
  • No more discussions of the NASDAQ on sports call-in shows
  • Twenty-three-year-old former wunderkind founder of The Globe.com arrested for beating up a transvestite in West Hollywood
  • No more damn books about Warren Buffett
  • Startling revelation: Microsoft is no more than a slave labor camp for twenty-year-old white kids that sells hideously bad software at criminal prices; Bill Gates is a pudgy, semi-autistic dweeb whose mother still dresses him
  • Cheap SUVs
  • Eighty percent of the world’s biggest assholes stranded in the Hamptons without carfare to return to New York (Note: requires summer crash)
  • No more articles on investing in Family Circle, Allure, Entertainment Weekly, or Car & Driver Magazine
  • Computer programmers stop dressing like Oscar Wilde and dating supermodels, go back to watching Deep Space Nine and eating Munchos like they’re supposed to
  • Every day is sale day at Barney’s
  • Born-again day-trading “genius” Barbra Streisand and her evil sidekick Donna Karan lose it all
  • Inane commodity-prices ticker at Shea replaced with Jerry Koozman monument
  • Price of Trump Hotels stock actually falls below zero
  • So long forever to Smart Money, Upside, Worth, Fast Company, and Cigar Aficionado; more room on newsstands for SweeTarts
  • Parade of TV market pundits swear they’ve been 80% in cash all along
  • New York magazine special issue: “Staten Island: The Undiscovered Gem in New York Bay”
  • CNBC Market Babe Maria Bartiromo back working in Nellie’s Pizza on Bay Ridge Avenue
  • Online brokerage firm E-Trade, its stock price under intense pressure, branches into dry-cleaning business
  • Web-page-designers begin to lie when asked what they do for a living
  • Re-emergence of OTB as a viable gambling venue
  • No reservations necessary at Nobu, even on Saturday night
  • Federal government drops its proposal to invest Social Security funds in stocks, decides to put the money in a huge stamp collection instead
  • Amazon.com stock certificates replace Pokemon cards as latest kids’ trading craze
  • Top-rated TV game show: Who Wants to Win a Roll of Quarters?
  • (Highlights mine.)

    Will attempt to get a weekend update up about the S&P and the Jacksonians between wedding festivities.  Silver and gold and their miners still looking very stable here, which is important.  Ciao* for now.

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    8 comments

    1. brushbuck

      Hi Jake,

      How about some more New Yawk neighborhood pics, if not too difficult. As someone who’s never been there and probably never will, enjoyed and was educated by your previous ones.

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    2. JakeGint

      Will do…. sometime this week.

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    3. Yogi & Boo Boo
      Yogi & Boo Boo

      I love it… Have a great time at the wedding festivities.

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    4. mrkcbill

      Very Good.

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    5. JakeGint

      Just checked into the hotel near the reception. Searingtown Road (Manhasset – Port Washington) has become a parking lot since the last time I regularly travelled it (back in the late eighties when I worked at Sands Pt. golf club).

      This Island is for insane people.

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    6. vcutrader

      Hey Jake-

      We agree on great silver plays, like SLW(been my biggest position since Nov) but was wondering your take on titanium, via TIE. I added some in late March but I am thinking about adding more. Seems if the economy improves, there is a chance TIE can benefit with commercial aircraft orders. Plus, the firm has no debt and should have positive FCF in 2009.

      Been enjoying your insights on here and the PPT, take care man.

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    7. vcutrader

      Hey Jake-

      We agree on great silver plays, like SLW(been my biggest position since Nov) but was wondering your take on titanium, via TIE. I added some in late March but I am thinking about adding more. Seems if the economy improves, there is a chance TIE can benefit with commercial aircraft orders. Plus, the firm has no debt and should have positive FCF in 2009.

      Been enjoying your insights on here and the PPT, take care man.

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    8. JakeGint

      VCU — TIE’s familiar to me from past ownership, and it’s made a nice move here on volume, but it hasn’t been as consistent as say, a TC has been. I will look at it more closely later this week.

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