First Day of Spring
By Barry Ritholtz - March 20th, 2009, 7:41AM
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And — Are you kidding me? — its frickin’ snowing in NY . . .
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Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
March 20th, 2009 at 7:48 am
Barry – Loved the interview at Forbes. Wish it had been longer. I’m waiting for you to discuss the next “shoe” – I mean bombshell to drop. You are looking at the Big Picture . I really appreciate that.
March 20th, 2009 at 8:29 am
First day of Spring + Friday = Friday Night Music.
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BR: I cant believe you wrote that — I have something queued up for this evening . . .
March 20th, 2009 at 8:38 am
Bombshell:
A.I.G. Sues U.S. for Return of $306 Million in Tax Payments
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/business/20aig.html
The lawsuit was filed Feb 27 and no one has given this any attention until now!?
Manchester United Shirts Add To AIG Outrage
http://www.luxist.com/2009/03/19/manchester-united-shirts-add-to-aig-outrage/
“BNET has a cheeky suggestion on what the American people should request from AIG in regards to this deal. They say that since we own 80 percent of AIG we could have the shirts changed to say “United States United” or even USA.”
I vote to change the shirts to say Bailout Nation! All with me say AYE!
March 20th, 2009 at 8:44 am
If you went back in time to several years ago and you asked most of us about some of the Fed/Treasury/Federal government interventions from the past year (TARP, TALF, stimulus, etc.), we’d probably say, “Yeah, when hell freezes over.” Maybe the snow in NYC today is the first sign of just that…
=) Happy Spring!
HCF
March 20th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Not all too different from the numbers “we” keep on GDP, Unemployment, Inflation and Debt…
March 20th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Rick Santelli needs to stop whining about the lack of predictability in the markets. Like it’s suddenly too hard for him to figure out what’s going to happen next. Hey, welcome to the world of the small time investor! Nothing feels any different to me… it’s always been a crap shoot and it still is. If you can’t take the heat, get out of the fire.
March 20th, 2009 at 9:02 am
BR: surprised to find you talking about snow and not fulminating about AIG or has that dopey bill taken away the appetite…..as a topic it’s way past it’s shelf life
March 20th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Beautiful here in Houston.
March 20th, 2009 at 9:27 am
BR,
the ones of the old ways refer to it as a “Daffodil Snow”, it’s, actually, good for the sprouting bulbs..
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Hey Mike,
ever look in the phonebook for furniture?
March 20th, 2009 at 9:41 am
hi
yes this is first day of sprirnt and for now there are “newrooz” celebration in persian lanaguage coutries…but i think this celebration not belong only to persians..it belongs to mankind history….so happy newrooz to all of world.
regards
March 20th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Mark: ?
March 20th, 2009 at 10:13 am
Effing weather.com told me it was 40F this morning just before 6AM as I prepared to go out for a training ride on my bike. 30 minutes in and I am getting blasted by clumpy snow, have to put my sunglasses on before it’s even light out and suffer on for another hour in this crap. If it weren’t for effing weather.com telling me it was 40F and, instead, telling it like it was (more like 30F), I would’ve had my cold-weather gloves and not worried about freezing my digits off in my 40F gloves.
NOT COOL WEATHER.COM!
-Mike J
March 20th, 2009 at 10:20 am
Mike,
in the Houston phonebook..if you do, it should be obvious.
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mike j,
put weather.com in the trash can, try this: http://weather.unisys.com/
March 20th, 2009 at 10:52 am
I have to admit I’m still mystified by the Houston phone book, unless Mark’s in the furntiure business.
March 20th, 2009 at 11:54 am
BR: I cant believe you wrote that — I have something queued up for this evening . . .
I sensed that all this authoring was taking you away from what’s truly important.
March 20th, 2009 at 11:58 am
No. The best weather site is wunderground.com when you dial in your zip code. It includes all the local private weather stations in their network. SO you get the microclimate as well.
March 20th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Mike,
do you even have a Houston phonebook?
March 20th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Yeah. They are much too big. The yellow pages is split in two.
The only thing I saw in the furniture pages that struck me was an ad for Hoffer Furniture.
March 20th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Snow in spring? Global warming hurf durf Al Gore hurf durf! Ha! Ha! Zing!
March 20th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Mike,
hello? sound familiar? (:
it’s why I was telling you: “If you needed furniture, look in the phonebook”
if you do, drop by, say Yo! to Scott…or, if you have extra furniture. that you don’t need, give to the Furniture Bank that his Dad, Jody, set up..