I wasn’t planning to cover the North American International Auto Show this year, because really, you don’t need us to tell you that there will be a lot of prattling about hybrids and batteries and the like. But then we read that the hecklers were out in full force to greet Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne, [...]
Entries from January 14th, 2010
Marchionne: Blue Shirt? Check. Black Pants? Check. Jobs? Fuhgeddaboutit
January 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment · breaking news
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Mad Libs Time!
January 11th, 2010 · 3 Comments · all ur bankz
This week, Wall Street banks left and right begin handing out their 2009 bonuses, which is sure to make everyone not working a Wall Street bank quite cross. We here at LOLFed understand that your time is valuable, and rather than waste it with a fundamentally similar post every time numbers are announced, we though [...]
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The Florida Weather Report
January 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment · breaking news
First, it’s crop report nightmare part deux (the first wave of cold weather to go through FL this month didn’t do much damage, check out my Trading Places nod if you didn’t catch it). Expect a hot mess tomorrow in the futures market if temperatures in Florida dip below 28 degrees for longer than a [...]
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Steve Feinberg Is No Edward Cullen
January 8th, 2010 · No Comments · commodities
Cerberus – the private equity firm named after that three-headed dog that guarded the gates of Hell, because Steve Feinberg thought it was “a good idea at the time” – arguably got the short end of the stick in the massive auto industry bailout, losing their equity stake in Chrysler and pretty much having to [...]
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The Crop Report
January 7th, 2010 · 3 Comments · commodities
A little afternoon fun in honor of the drop today in OJ futures – seems like FL’s crops will escape the worst of the cold snap. The epic scene from the end of 1983′s Trading Places: Orange juice futures contracts retreated Thursday after much of Florida avoided a potentially devastating freeze overnight. Orange juice contracts [...]
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