Author Archive
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Punch Your Banker and Lawyer….AND THEN…Walk Away From Your Mortgage!
Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | January 10th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
I believe there should be a ‘Homeowner’s Anonymous’ where we could actually give good advice for those that are addicted to the kool-aid of ‘Own Your Home’.
The head of the Mortgage Bankers Association ‘ Frank Shmendrick the Turd (third)’ says:
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Overheard on StockTwits: “Only Fear in this Market is Investors on the Sidelines”
Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | January 8th, 2010 at 2:04 pm Each day we jump into the StockTwits stream and pull out the morning buzz. Here’s what we found today:
Orange Juice has been on the move lately. Some are saying next bubble but I think it could be the beginning of a new food inflation:
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Overheard on StockTwits: Junk Bonds, Forbes Cover Curse, and No Double Dip
Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | January 6th, 2010 at 12:35 pm Each day we dip into the StockTwits stream and pull out the Morning Buzz. Here’s what we found today: read more...
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Howie’s All Time Highs China Automotive Systems CAAS
Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | January 6th, 2010 at 7:59 am China stands for Chaching again these days.
I avoid most Chinese stocks because I can barely trust America. That said, price is price and the money is fllowing into Chinese equities the last 6-9 months.
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Overheard on StockTwits: $AAPL, $GOOG, $F, and Pharmaceutical Silliness
Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | January 5th, 2010 at 12:40 pm Each day we dig into the StockTwits stream and try to bring you the morning buzz. Here’s what we found today: read more...
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Howie’s All Time Highs General Mills GIS
Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | January 5th, 2010 at 8:00 am So boring and such an old web 1.0 website, but price does not lie and a poor website hides many truths when it comes to social media.
The big brands have some major leverage when it comes to moving crappy ad dollars from TV to the web and the brands inside General Mills $GIS are smarter than you think.
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Overheard on StockTwits: Back to Business
Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | January 4th, 2010 at 1:02 pm Each day we dive into the StockTwits stream and pick out some morning pearls of wisdom. Here’s what we found today: read more...
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Stocktwits 2010
Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | January 3rd, 2010 at 1:09 pm It is amazing to have witnessed the growth in trading/investing ideas and links being passed around tagged with $ and $$.
Welcome to a fresh start to 2010. For money managers, the slate is clean. We can go back to underperforming the monkeys and indexes (I did in 2009).
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Happy New Year…Let’s Keep it Simple in 2010
Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | December 31st, 2009 at 7:58 am Life is difficult.
That’s how ‘The Road Less Travelled ‘ starts out and that is pretty much the whole story.
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My Decade…Economically Speaking
Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | December 30th, 2009 at 8:14 am Paul Krugman of the New York Times is calling this economic decade ‘The Big Zero ‘.
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‘Too Slick to Succeed?’…Not In America Baby!
Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | December 29th, 2009 at 8:07 am Ponzi schemes are at all-time highs according to the Associated Press .
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The Top 100 Ticker Symbols of 2009 on Stocktwits
Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | December 28th, 2009 at 11:28 am 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.
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The Year 2010…The 10 is for Page 10
Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | December 27th, 2009 at 11:18 am Everyone is out with their predictions for 2010 $twentyten and as usual, mine are just to assume most trends will continue. I like Amazon, Apple, Gold and Google because that is where the money is flowing. The right web, mobile, software and weapon stocks will also make you money. I never own airlines, even though we have three great ones flying our skies today (JetBlue, Southwest and Virgin) and I avoid hot ‘component plays’, generally semiconductors, who can shoot to the starts for a few quarters at a time.
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Ally Bank…Smart, But Too Slick.
Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | December 26th, 2009 at 11:45 am I want a new bank system and fresh ideas and at first glance ALLY could be offering it.
It is impossible to have missed their web advertising campaign. They are relentless and are pitching a simple campaign.
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When I was a Kid…
Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | December 24th, 2009 at 8:04 am Our Grandparents had TWO World Wars and a depression. You had to walk 7 miles through snowstorms to buy a BOOK.
My generation has Alan Greenspan, Tim Geithner, Goldman Sachs and Capital One. Luckily we have Twitter, wicked Weapons, and Prisons.
