Let The Games Begin…
The SEC announced that it is finally ready to vote this week on the provision of the JOBS Act allowing hedge funds to advertise. Scheduled to take place July 10, a successful vote would lift the 80-year-old ban on hedge funds’ ability to market to the masses. Wall Street’s forbidden fruit would then, for intents and purposes, be able to be sold at Wal-Mart. Look out, Ma and Pa Kettle, here come the hedge fund managers! That giant sucking sound being heard in Boston are the billions of dollars leaving the coffers of mutual funds and heading for the hedge fund industry. It is clearly an exciting time for hedge […]
The Machines Are Taking Over…
Is it me or are people spending way too much time speaking, texting and using their supposedly smart smartphones? It seems that no matter where you go, what you do, someone is always on the phone. What does these people to have to say? Am I missing something? Standing in line at Starbucks, text your friend; waiting for the bus, text somebody; looking at the watermelon at Shop-Rite, make a call. Everywhere I go; people are toiling away on their phones. Well, friends, it is time to stop the madness. The time has come to put down the phone, stop talking, texting or viewing and start interacting with humans again. […]