Monday, December 1st, 2008

It’s So Good It Must Be Fantasy

On most autumn Sundays, you can find me on my couch in my own little fantasy world. More specifically, I’m in my own little fantasy football world. I have one eye watching football on television but the rest of me is frantically switching between tabs on my web browser following multiple games on CBSSports.com Gamecenter. [...]

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Season 19: The Johnnies Road To The Final Four Begins

Kids have their birthday. Gentiles have Christmas. Dudes have Superbowl Sunday. Happily married couples have their anniversary. Investment bankers pre-2008 had bonus day. According to Ralph Waldo Emerson, you should “write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” For Brian Greg Litvack the best, most exciting and thrilling [...]

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Vote

Eight years ago, I remember staying up late into the night watching Election Day coverage plunge into sheer chaos as the closest presidential election in American history unfolded in real time. I was in college, and watching a historical moment in the making seemed like a great way to kill a night hanging with my [...]

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Wanted: Reliable, Dependable, Honest and Hard Worker

A good friend who works in finance for a hedge fund is interested in diversifying his personal investment portfolio. He’s lost some trust in the short term markets and doesn’t want both his career and investments to be completely reliant upon the unpredictable and irrational swings in the current market. One investment that he is [...]

Friday, October 24th, 2008

This Dude is Chillin

I came across this news story last night and it’s just too good. There is a hedge fund manager in Los Angles named Andrew Lahde. Last year he made a whoppingly insane 866% return by betting on the subprime mortage collapse. He recently announced that he is leaving the hedge fund business with a letter [...]

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

50+ Finance Questions

As a kid, I was somewhat of a math whiz. I was always in some kind of special math program and went from a mathlete (kind of like Jeff and Vant) to the glorious position as captain of the Great Neck North math team. But my talent in math probably had more to do with [...]

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Thinking Finance Thoughts

I’ve been tuned in to the Wall Street financial collapse for the past few weeks since I wrote my last blog post on the market. I wake up and go to sleep to CNBC and devour as much intelligent analysis as I can find in regard to the credit crisis, bailout plan and status of [...]

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

The Knick Bailout! (Friend Post)

I have the distinct honor of being part of a New York Knicks off-season email listserv. Yup, it’s as pathetic as it sounds. What kind of intelligent analysis can be applied to the Knicks signing a crippled Allan Houston or Steph telling the world that he’s going to get all his money (21.9 million)? I’m [...]

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

MattNYC: The Spread Offense Is Awesome (Comment Of The Week)

My blog post on Michigan Football and Rich Rodriguez wasn’t well received. That probably has as much to do with my writing as it does with my argument (although I’m sure you could argue that both are off base). The message I wanted to get across was that I understand we need to give this [...]

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Dick Rodded

Week four of the college football season came and went this past Saturday and I couldn’t have been less interested. That’s because my school, Michigan, had a bye week. Thank goodness. It already kind of feels like they are having a bye year. Michigan is off to a rocky start with painful losses at home [...]