Jess Bachman, who did the terrific illustrations for Bailout Nation, turns his attention to Yahoo’s epic collapse.
This is only the upper 10% of the graphic or so:
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"Money is power, & you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it." —Russell H. Conwell, Temple Univ, 1877
"It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine" say the French as consumer confidence in May rose to the highest since Nov '10 as they welcome and get excited about new Pres Hollande. Also, the French 10 yr bond yield touched the lowest on record this morning. June consumer confidence in Germany held at 5.7, just .2 pts off the highest since Mar '11. To the euro bond debate which is now taking on greater rhetoric with those with high bond yields wanting them and those with low ones saying no way, ECB member...
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November 11th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
I read yesterday that YHOO was looking at Groupons and mulling a $4 Billion offer.
There’s reason this stock has been in decade-long swoon: the company’s been run by idiots.
If they pay $4 billion for Groupons, the entire top management should be fired by the Board. And then the Board should fire themsleves.
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November 11th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
Yahoo Finance currently shows the 10-Year T-bill currently at 0.2574% yield. Now that’s a brutal decline in yield!
http://finance.yahoo.com/
November 11th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/517027/found_yahoo_clasic_yodel/
for the classic Yahoo yodel that was often heard in 99-00 — especially on CNBC !!
November 11th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Yahoo!, that’s like the altakaka search engine, right?
Sorry… I mean Alta Vista.
November 11th, 2010 at 11:37 pm
Articles such as this one Yahoo calls 20% layoff report ‘inaccurate’ in the IT tress press do not help matters.
November 11th, 2010 at 11:38 pm
tress > trade
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BR: (All you could do is look at the comment before hitting “submit”)
November 12th, 2010 at 6:07 am
Picture perfect chart of a bubble. The standard template, parabolic up and then back in half the time to the point of origin. It doesn’t matter how good your business model is during the process. Afterwards, absolutely–look at Amazon. Same chart originally but different result 10 years later.
November 12th, 2010 at 9:53 am
Falling down the stairs in a mansion can take a long time.