At Random

Jim Arnold, Arnold Investment Counsel in Milwaukee, gets the prize this month.

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This month’s selection came from Chicago, the FAF Conference back in June. I think I heard it from Parker Hall.

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Again, the joke of the month comes from Texas, but not from out regular Texas source. This time the award goes to Gene Vaughan of Vaughan, Nelson, McConnell and Scarborough.

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Check out a “hot” new commodity.... fox urine. We’re not kidding.

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Yes, there is a money management camp in Palm Beach, Florida (where else?) and at The Breakers. Sound like great fund for the kiddies?

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You can miss a lot when your daily papers are the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, papers where the only comic section is the editorial page.

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Now here is a great plan for shrinking government spending. It comes not from a politician, not from Peter Grace and not from the White House staff. It come from Gallagher.

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Last month this publication included it’s annual “Fearless Forecasts,” those frivolous flights of fancy that occasionally come true. Do you recall the one predicting it would be discovered that acid rain can be neutralized by seeding clouds with massive amounts of Rolaids?

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The Real Victims of Our Fiscal Follies.

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In Chicago they tell me a new dome is being planned; no more icy November winds off Lake Michigan. I predict the “Monsters of the Midway” will then become the “Milquetoasts of the Dome.”

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Mark Floyd, young son of the Leuthold Group’s Jim Floyd, could be responsible for taking this publication in a new direction.

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In mid-June I spent a few days in New York, visiting clients, introducing son Kurt to the marvels of New York.

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I had to clean up some of Walter’s ethnic slurs, but nevertheless the source is Deemer Technical Research.

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This is this publication’s annual absurd outrageous (and sometimes correct) prognostications. Don’t confuse these with the more traditional economic and market predictions. They are frivolous flights of foolishness and fantasy, and some have become reality. New readers should be alerted that some of these border on being “sick” and you may be offended.

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Sorry Ted, you can win some, but you can’t win ‘em all.

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I have found myself increasingly amused by the really weird humor of Gary Larson.

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Wall Street humor is typically cynical, iconoclastic and acerbic. And, the worse the markets get, the sicker and more perverted the humor seems to get.

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I know from experience things can be tough on the “buy side” as well, but at least none of my old clients ever forced me to eat junk food for twelve straight days!

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Think of this when you “hit the wall” in your favorite fall marathon.

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Using power tools to cut through a steel wall and pipe, in early June, Richard Matt and David Sweat crawled their way out of Clinton Correctional Facility.

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