Editor’s Note–Well Big D, CLASSY JET didn’t win last Friday but she did finish a nice 2nd. Watch out next time. And due to some funny business in the 2nd half of the Jets/Miami game, you had a losing weekend. Lets see you break out and of course give us a few BREEDERS CUP winners!–R.B. Well Richie we thought we had a lot of things pegged last weekend, but alas it didnt come true. That’s ok we’re ready for this wonderful sports weekend. For those who may know me for quite some time, you will know that 6 years back when the BREEDERS CUP was held at Santa Anita, I nearly
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The Today Show is reporting that places like Goldman Sachs (there’s that name again!) and Citigroup are getting more H1N1 (swine flu) shots for their employees than some hospitals in NYC! You can’t even begin to make this stuff up. The Today Show gets like a bunch of housewives all over the country watching right? Christ, you don’t want them pissed off at you. The media really doesn’t like these banks does it? I dont either. For perhaps different reasons. Speaking of Goldman, I shorted their shares at $171.50.Its higher than that now.Which, ifyou are counting at home, is
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I’m walking up 5th Avenue in NYC last evening smoking a cigar, as I have been known to do. People are out but I don’t notice many carrying shopping bags. I do notice some foreign voices which is a good sign. I’m hoping that the weak U.S. dollar is going to be good for something. I know the rest of the world has its issues but there have to be some bargains the foreign tourists can spend their hard earned dough on right here in the good ol’ US of A. So, in any event, I see 4 fellows hawking CDs. But not a table of CDs, just a few CDs in their hands. I realize they are also
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Self certification mortgages has received another nail in the coffin as Platform Home Loans, one of the last two remaining lenders in the residential mortgage market, announces it will be pulling all of its self cert mortgage products by the end of the week. This news comes just weeks after the FSA stated that they would be looking to ban self cert mortgage products.This news is no doubt going to come as a massive blow to the self employed business community who have ordinarily not been able to fit into the prescribed boxes that mortgage lenders have imposed. It is however, hoped that once the
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Bears hibernate right? I’m getting to be like a big bear. As in bear market. We’ve been telling you about all the foolish things this administration has been doing to “fix” things with this crisis. And much like in little league these days where “nobody loses and everyone gets a trophy”, the gang in D.C. has decided to act that way towards the economy. Unless of course, you are rich. But what they don’t figure out is that small business owners, the “rich” guys, don’t hire people when they are taxed to death. And they move to Florida or Arizona and throw
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Well Richie, by all accounts from my high friends in very low places, last weekend in the NFL might’ve been the worst week for the Las Vegas sportsbooks ever. The favorites went 10-2-1. When its a disaster for the books, its probably not a great weekend for Big Dick. If you can picture this you’ll see what I mean. Think ofa degenerate gambler who cant rub two nickels together and has no teeth but still wagers and wagers stupidly, mostly on favorites.Now think of those beautiful facilities in Las Vegas known as casinos where thesportsbooks look like somethingout ofNASA. Which side would
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Well Richie, by all accounts from my high friends in very low places, last weekend in the NFL might've been the worst week for the Las Vegas sportsbooks ever. The favorites went 10-2-1. When its a disaster for the books, its probably not a great weekend for Big Dick. If you can picture this you'll see what I mean. Think ofa degenerate gambler who cant rub two nickels together and has no teeth but still wagers and wagers stupidly, mostly on favorites.Now think of those beautiful facilities in Las Vegas known as casinos where thesportsbooks look like somethingout ofNASA. Which side would you
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First Quench Ltd which owns brands, Threshers, The Local, Wine Rack and Haddows, had to go into administration on Thursday after struggling in the recession. Richard Fleming, Mick McLoughlin and Ian Corfield of KPMG have been appointed joint administrators to First Quench. KPMG said 81 redundancies had been made at the firm’s head office in Welwyn Garden City, and warned that more jobs were likely to go.First Quench has 1,202 stores under its various brand names, and employs 6,283 workers.
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