Author: Michael Kahn

Having morning coffee and flipping through the cable business shows this caught my ear – Piper Jaffray downgraded the shares of Motorola to a sell. Let’s check this out for a moment.br /br /This stock was trading in...

I have a question (what else is new?)br /br /Why are we trying to turn food into ethanol, when there are other biofuels available, at least in theory? Here are some crazy, and I do mean crazy, ideas that may only work in...

It is very hard to be a bear on a day, despite a 131-Dow-Point drop and solidly bearish indicators, when you read this stuff:br /ulliFund managers took the most negative stance on equities for a decade in June amid worries about...

Remember back to the good ole days of 2007 when the worlds coffers were overflowing with the sweet fruits of the ATM? You know – refinance your mortgage and take cash out. And for the big boyz and girlz, sell bonds in...

Colleague Dave Calloway, Editor of MarketWatch.com, called it “In-Thain” that Merrill Lynch wanted to sell its stake in Bloomberg. That’s right, John Thain, the CEO, wants to sell of the piece that is actually...

I was on a conference call today and picked up this little tidbit. The easier it is to buy advertising time in the media the worse the economy is and right now you can buy all the advertising you want.br /br /Uh oh.br /br /I...

Just booked a flight on JetBlue. While they still let me check one suitcase for free (the second will cost 20 bucks) they charged me an extra 60 bucks per round trip to sit in one of the “expanded legroom seats. Most of...

Every time I write my column there is always the possibility the market will change drastically between the time I file it and the time it goes up on the site. Today, when the stock market stalled at Dow down 140-150 I had that...

Readers, I want to take a a poll and here is why:br /br /In my neighborhood and surrounding towns, over the decades, the number of gasoline filling stations has declined but not at any rate that would raise an eyebrow. A new...

The old saw says that history does not repeat but it rhymes. Here is a tidbit I dug up from a chat room posted by colleague Dave Steckler:br /br /spanThe last time the Giants won the Super Bowl (1990), oil prices were spiking,...