Filed under: International markets, Good news, Management, Citigroup Inc. (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of New York (BK), Wells Fargo (WFC), Chasing Value, U.S. Bancorp (USB) It is being reported today in the Business Journal that the safest bank in the United States is Wells Fargo & Company (...

Bad day on Wall Street today, folks. The S&P 500 closed at the lowest level since April 1997. The NYT explains: Analysts said that after fevered speculation last week about bank nationalization, many investors now expect the government to move in that direction, despite statements from the White Hou...

Image via Wikipedia … it’s 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses … Ever feel like social networking is like stumbling around in the dark with a million things to pay attention to, people tellin...

An increasingly upset Mr. Cheney stated categorically that Mr. Wallace, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary and Bill Clinton, Caroline Kennedy, and even Paris Hilton could all go “bleep” themselves. Although such enthusiastic support for onanistic love comes during the twilight of his publi...

Filed under: Major movement, Earnings reports, Rants and raves, JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), Charles Schwab Corp (SCHW), Wells Fargo (WFC), IndyMac Bancorp (IMB), U.S. Bancorp (USB) Yesterday's Major League All-Star Game went into extra innings (15 total) before the American League w...

Image via Wikipedia Hat tip to Mashable - I found the Zemanta plugin for Wordpress, which is just astonishing. It suggests contextually relevant content from around the web for your blog, all in a useful little sidebar. Let’s say I’m blogging about Sallie Mae, my archrival. Just by putti...

  High School B-Ball Phenom Lance Stephenson’s Choice Down to Three Schools Lance Stephenson, the only junior on USA TODAY’s All-USA Boys Basketball Team, has narrowed his college choices to three schools, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via Zag’s Blog. A 6-foot 5-i...

Filed under: Management, Rants and raves, Competitive strategy, Microsoft (MSFT), Apple Inc (AAPL), General Electric (GE), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Citigroup Inc. (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Merrill Lynch (MER), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Entrepreneurs, Serious Money Since I have been a shareholder...

Filed under: Market matters, JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bear Stearns Cos (BSC), Housing, Cramer on BloggingStocks TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says we'll finally get real pricing of the hard-to-mark paper. After months of saying, "Why don't they bring in some pros, do a Resolution Trust and get on with thi...

no matter which way you turn, it's still going to be the average joes who are going to get screwed in this deal... JPMorgan Raises Bid for Bear Stearns to $10 a Share The sweetened offer is intended to win over stockholders whovowed to fight the original fire-sale deal, struck only aweek ago at the ...