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Friday, November 4. 2011

Offal Deals

The current market on Wall Street is driven by a number of outrageous factors.  Europe and U.S. Debt, Fed Quantitative Easing, Hot IPOs, and large scale fraud are headlines each day.


Last night, an interesting IPO was priced, and it could be a bellwether, as its movement may be indicative of market conditions.



The business plan was good. This was going to be a moneymaker. The problem with the deal was optics. Rendering is a nasty business.


So are businesses with low costs of entry.  One of the sure signs of bubble behavior is herd mentality that becomes contagious and self-reinforcing.

Posted by Bulldog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 10:50 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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I tracked Darling for a couple of years as a possible play in the enviro bubble.
#1 foxmarks (Link) on 2011-11-04 11:02 (Reply)
"I'm here with the offal, sir!"

>>"Very well. Carry on."
#2 buddy larsen on 2011-11-04 17:44 (Reply)
Larsen, you idiot, you should have spelt it "Carri on"
#2.1 buddy larsen on 2011-11-05 10:14 (Reply)
I can't understand why anyone would buy into Groupon. It's a business plan that can be replicated endlessly by any business with a web presence and sales people - TV & radio stations for example. I get daily e-mails from Amazon that are essentially Groupon type things already.
And Woot. I like Woot.
#3 BlogDog on 2011-11-04 19:10 (Reply)

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