Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
A reader says “I learned more from this blog than from Mark Zuckerberg’s speech at Harvard, Dale Carnegie’s books and G100 counsel combined. Don’t get me wrong, Zuck’s not a bad guy, but I don’t need him to tell me about the ecosystem and planetary welfare from his pedestal.” Thanks, pal. …
I’m taking up another reader email today. “Hello Max, I am fortunate to have found your website, the content is niche and glorious like no other site I have seen. You are helping people though their breakpoints and I am stuck between Scylla and Charybdis. I work at a major investment …
I like comics and I am a Star Wars fan. A reader sent me a link to these videos and asked me to comment on what I see fit with the Sith code and compare that with the Jedi order code. Which one is better ? Attached were also some …
I try to keep off politics, but people asked me: how about Comey and Trump, where is this going ? What do you think ? What do I think ? I think today we’ve finally seen the markets moving down-logically- and there’s still ways to go. The problem is there …
As you may have already figured out, I do not write for CEOs. These guys and gals they’ve got it made. They don’t need me to fluff their buttermilk pancakes. I write for the up-and-coming folk who is rising to the top and is ready to rock the boat. If …
We’re going to read an e-mail today: “Max, My name is Sam and I am a software program manager. I’ve been with my company for six years. I manage testing and commercialization of connectivity programs. I do nerdy stuff: establish routine update, update status, schedule trends vs. baseline, risk management, …
I’m posting another email today… This is a sad one. It makes me wonder why do we keep these people, why do we give them leverage over our lives…I’m talking about bosses here. “Max, You seem to be the only I know of that talks about the bad bosses in …
What is about the forbidden fruit that makes it so sweet ? Is is because it’s forbidden ? Is it because is breaking an ethical rule ? The forbidden is getting the excitement women crave for ? Is is the pear shape fruit that makes it so appealing ? -The …
Most of you have seen this already, I am pinging back of Valuewalk. Highlights: Painful shorts with a big position in Tesla (TSLA) : “Our shorts generated losses but added alpha, and gold gave us a small profit in macro. Apple (AAPL), Chemours (CC) and gold were the biggest winners; the …
Those that never watched “Suits” may wish to pause this one. Harvey Specter is a lawyer in the Suits series obsessed with winning. He’s not even a hard-ass but he is pretty good. How good do you think he is ? Please go though the survey below and answer it …
