Archive for August, 2012

• Oh No – Another Post About High Frequency Trading?
  Posted by kid dynamite on August 31st, 2012 at 11:54 am, Comments: 0

  HFT is a topic I’ve beaten to death previously on this blog, and also extensively in comment threads on other blogs around the vast confines [...]

• Quote of the Day – Cullen Roche
  Posted by kid dynamite on August 31st, 2012 at 10:56 am, Comments: 0

  From Cullen Roche at Pragmatic Capitalism: “Perhaps the Fed’s most powerful tool at this point is just leaving the empty bazooka on the table letting [...]

• Marco Rubio: Strike That – Reverse It!
  Posted by kid dynamite on August 31st, 2012 at 10:40 am, Comments: 0

  I was watching this last night in bed, and thought I must have misheard Marco Rubio.  The gaffe starts at the 17:30 mark:   “We [...]

• Investing vs Gambling Meta-Post
  Posted by kid dynamite on August 30th, 2012 at 12:35 pm, Comments: 0

  Please allow me to babble out loud (in pixels?) here for a minute… This won’t be the first nor the last time I make the [...]

• The Definitive Vegas Club Scene Article
  Posted by kid dynamite on August 30th, 2012 at 9:55 am, Comments: 0

  Devin Friedman at GQ has written a masterpiece of an article about the rise of the “product” that is the Las Vegas Superclub.  Friedman paints [...]

• The Latest Chapter in Vringo and Google’s He Said / She Said
  Posted by kid dynamite on August 29th, 2012 at 9:37 am, Comments: 0

  Yesterday I relayed a plain-English interpretation of some back and forth legal documents in the $VRNG – $GOOG patent case.  I would suggest that all [...]

• Occupy Wall Street’s Worst Idea Thus Far
  Posted by kid dynamite on August 29th, 2012 at 8:54 am, Comments: 0

  From Bloomberg, emphasis mine: “Occupy Wall Street, the global movement against inequality that ignited in Manhattan last year, will mark its first anniversary by trying [...]

• Some Thoughts on the Vringo – Google Patent Battle
  Posted by kid dynamite on August 28th, 2012 at 10:57 am, Comments: 0

  Vringo is one small-cap “stock-of-the-moment” that is garnering a lot of hype on Stocktwits, Seeking Alpha, or anywhere anyone publishes an article about it.   James [...]

• Empirical Evidence That Dogs Will Rat Each Other Out Instead of Sharing Treats
  Posted by kid dynamite on August 26th, 2012 at 6:25 pm, Comments: 0

  Regular readers of Kid Dynamite’s World know that Mrs. Dynamite and I are dog people.   Oscar came first: we got him when he was a [...]

• It’s All About The Benjamins: Red Sox-Dodgers Blockbuster Trade Edition
  Posted by kid dynamite on August 25th, 2012 at 10:41 pm, Comments: 0

  “It’s All About the Benjamins” – Puff Daddy If you don’t get that concept, you’ll be massively confused by the blockbuster trade between the Boston [...]

• Bruce Springsteen – Lost In the Flood
  Posted by kid dynamite on August 22nd, 2012 at 8:24 pm, Comments: 0

  November 18th, 1975, Hammersmith Odeon, London: August 18th, 2012, Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, MA: I was there for this one: -KD Share on StockTwits

• Fifty Shades of Grey Boosts Barnes & Noble Same Store Comps
  Posted by kid dynamite on August 21st, 2012 at 8:54 am, Comments: 0

  From their just released earnings report: “Comparable bookstore sales increased 4.6% for the quarter, as compared to the prior year period. Comparable bookstore sales continued [...]

• Don’t Discount The Power of Targeted Advertising Online
  Posted by kid dynamite on August 20th, 2012 at 11:44 am, Comments: 0

  Look, I’m online a lot.    I buy a TON of stuff online – mostly from Amazon.com ($AMZN – no positions).   Like most of you, I [...]

• If You Bet That The New York Times Couldn’t Use The Word “Dildo” Three Times in One Article, You Lose
  Posted by kid dynamite on August 19th, 2012 at 6:26 pm, Comments: 0

  I was going to file this post under “Dear Penthouse? Or The New York Times?”  but anyway, here it is: This one might surprise you: [...]

• This Makes Me Want To Fight Someone: Dear America, You Cannot Possibly Be This Dumb
  Posted by kid dynamite on August 15th, 2012 at 8:05 pm, Comments: 0

  Thanks to Matt Levine at Dealbreaker for this gem:  “Great Idea Corp.”  First, let me give you Levine’s prospectus excerpt: “Great Idea Corp. was incorporated [...]

• Trending Now – This Sounds About Right
  Posted by kid dynamite on August 15th, 2012 at 6:54 am, Comments: 0

  Presented with no comment (except to clarify that the number one item there is “Kim Kardashian Prison Orange.”  And yes, of course, #6 is “Fattest [...]

• The Boss At His Best: For You
  Posted by kid dynamite on August 13th, 2012 at 9:55 pm, Comments: 0

  Growing up, my dad taught in a school system a few towns over, so my sister and I went to school there because the schools [...]

• A Little Bird Told Me That The Labor Force Participation Rate is About to Increase…
  Posted by kid dynamite on August 13th, 2012 at 12:24 pm, Comments: 0

  Ok, ok, total click-bait title.  I admit it, but hey – I figured we’re still mired in the summer doldrums of internet traffic, and that’s [...]

• Herbalife Says That the 70% Rule Is a Joke Anyway
  Posted by kid dynamite on August 9th, 2012 at 9:13 am, Comments: 0

  Yesterday afternoon a bunch of SEC filings from Herbalife ($HLF: no positions) hit the Sec.gov website.   For those unfamiliar with the $HLF saga, hedge fund [...]

• The Actual Details of the Knight Capital Error
  Posted by kid dynamite on August 9th, 2012 at 8:25 am, Comments: 0

  A few days ago I speculated about the details of Knight’s error unwind with Goldman.   I got some things right, some things slightly right, and [...]