Alex L. Mauldin: NewsNews from around the world.(Untitled)- November 25, 2004 Something To Look Forward To Stephen Roach, the chief economist at investment banking giant Morgan Stanley, has a public reputation for being bearish. But you should hear what he's saying in private. Roach met select groups of fund managers downtown last week, including a group at Fidelity. His prediction: America has no better than a 10 percent chance of avoiding economic "armageddon.'' (Read more)http://radio.weblogs.com/0117496/categories/news/2004/11/25.html#a723 (Untitled)- November 21, 2004 An Eye For An Eye Or at least two Mr. Happy's for $1,250. All I can add to that is this: Kids, crime doesn't pay.http://radio.weblogs.com/0117496/categories/news/2004/11/21.html#a713 (Untitled)- November 9, 2004 One Hundred Pieces Of News You've never seen the news this way before: 10x10.http://radio.weblogs.com/0117496/categories/news/2004/11/09.html#a692 (Untitled)- November 9, 2004 $41,000 For Two Pounds Of Fungus I'll be the first to admit that you should be able to spend your money on whatever you like. If you earned it, you also earned the right to set it on fire if you want to. That said, I still find this unbelievable: New York restaurateur Francesco Giambelli dished out a record $41,000 (&163;22,000)for a 2.4lb Italian white truffle yesterday. The 85-year-old, who owns Giambelli 50th on New York's East Side, beat off an unnamed opponent in Moscow to claim the.http://radio.weblogs.com/0117496/categories/news/2004/11/09.html#a691 (Untitled)- November 6, 2004 They Have Different Drummers Be it far from me to be judgmental (or hypocritical), but I don't understand some people. I just can't fathom how they view the world. How they get through life without drowning in their own stupidity. How they manage to wake up every morning just as moronic as they were the day before, see nothing wrong with that fact, make one colossally bad move after another, and still make it to bed safe and sound at the end of the day. And for once I'm not...http://radio.weblogs.com/0117496/categories/news/2004/11/06.html#a685 |