Hunger Games is expected to do $100 M its first weekend March 23. The story  features a female heroine clearly modeled on My Fair Lady as follows teens fighting for survival in a government-controlled world that hosts annual televised games in which young participants are forced to kill their opponents. No wait I am thinking Audrey Hepburn and…

Thursday March 15, 2012 We have numerous grad students scheduled for presentation Saturday March 31, 2012 at SWTLC. Students not scheduled can earn quiz grades by reviewing a presentationa and reporting on it in the discussion area of BB for their class. Click to access program_draft_march13.pdf This is the link to the schedule. Make you…

Sunday March 4, 2012 Here are some interesting photos of WWII USA Airplane Factories. All are government pictures so the ladies are posed and well dressed but still an interesting look back at that era. Just in time for Women's Hstory Month.

Friday Feb 23, 2012 JC Penny recorded a loss as it ramps up for Ron Johnson's re make of its stores. Johnson was hired from Apple and promises big changes. But Fitch downgraded JCP debt to junk as a result of losses and well more debt. JCP is selling at a much higher multiple than Kohls.…

Wed Dec 28, 2011 Doug Kass has his 15 Srurprises for 2012. Notably he sees the Market at the same level at year end 2012 aas now. His similar prediction for 2011, same same also was correct.    I will have my prediction list later but I see he is recommending GM as I did as well…

Dec 9, 2011 Friday Yep time for ethics class. Funny we never run out of candidates and never need to go back to older material,There is never a lack of candidates for Who's the Worst in the latest time frame. While far from the worst, there should be a category for the most entertaining, and…

Sat Oct 22, 2011 Groupon was expecting to raise $25 B in its IPO, well make it half that. Imitators, like the SA Express News, are cropping up all over. This article courtesy of an alert TAMUSA student. The difficulty of picking successful start up stocks is separating the plausible, Groupon, from the probable, like…

Tuesday Sept 27, 2011 Monday morning Warren Buffet announced he would be buying back shares of Berkshire Hathaway. The market reacted by jumping the shares about ten percent. And sure enough the analyst above is right, at 98K BRK.A is trading for book value. Please read the analysis. As he says, Buffet does not own options,…

Tuesday Aug 23, 2011   It looks like all the high tech stuff will not be hooked up the first day of class. I thought we would do something different, The first assignment is to read ?Emerson's essay, 1841, on self reliance. And one might read Steve Pressfield's  tHe War of Art. And then I…

Monday Aug 22, 2011 nsider. Lots of land No income tax Right to Work Law The DFW Airport, right in the center of the country, short flights to both coasts, and the Central Time Zone. I never realized just how important Central Time Zone was until I traded bonds and had to wire money. Being…