28.2.06

Long on going Long Shareholder Lawsuit Lawsuits

According to the 10b-5 Daily, according to the Economist, according an article in the Stanford Law Review, according to a study by James Cox, according to data collected from 118 securities class-action suits between 1995 and 2002, 72% of institutions never claim their full share of the lawsuit proceeds.

The always interesting 10b-5 Daily notes that the article notes that institutional investors may be "violating their fiduciary responsibilities when they do not try to get their money" from firms violating their fiduciary responsibilities and could be the subject of "class-action suits" over the improper handling of class-action suits...

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Told two friends, and she told two friends and she....

27.2.06

Spam at Its Best

Dear ラブステーション-

I write kindly in response to the email you sent me yesterday, which was as followed (translated from Japanese by Google's "Human Translator Trapped in a Box" Service):
From: ラブステーション
Date: 22 Feb 2006 22:22:50 +0900
Subject:  お待ちしております
To: misterjuggles@gmail.com

Is association with the Serret Bu woman whom it selects how? It gets wet to getting wet and the る woman who is sown anytime and being perfection free anywhere, it introduces...


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26.2.06

Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing William Jennings Bryan

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

-William Jennings Bryan

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25.2.06

Adding Google Site Search Module to Your Site

This is a secret sell-out. I struggled forever to get a small form factor site search module from either Yahoo or Google. At first, I opted for Yahoo as it seemed to be the more flexible code and hoped it would boost our Yahoo search ranking which seemed to blow. I settled on Google once I stripped out a bunch of different aspects of it and got into the smallest size possible. So if you want to add Google Site Search to your Site and in the slimmest fashion, use the code below. Be mindful that you need to replace the three bracketed portions ("yoursitehere.com") with your own url in the format as it is in the brackets. But remove the brackets. Works great in a sidebar, as you can see at the bottom of ours.

Here is the code: Link to Google Search Module Code

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24.2.06

If the Russian Can't Do It, It Can't Be Done

In the continuing spat over the investability of Russian equities, I offer the following picture which once again shows that Russian aircraft manufacturers (in this case Ilyushin) and Russian airlines (in this case Vaso Air) have everything under control.
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23.2.06

Short Expectations

The following was contributed last week by our new writer, Equity Private, who has an excellent blog about being an private equity insider. Both He/She/It ("Hsit"), along with Female to Be Named Later (links to her blog), will be contributing at will.

Meta data surrounding "investor relations" has the potential to become a derivative vehicle itself. Investor Relations ("IR") is a field which has developed into an art and a science due to the importance of earnings announcements and the triumph of the short-term (12 week) focused analyst over the long-term (12.5 week) focused analyst. Below, we outline a system to guide equity strategies in this realm...

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22.2.06

More Anti-Web 2.0 Wiki

Added some of the comments listed for the Anti-Web 2.0 wiki and also an image. We'll continue to update it as comments and trackback roll in. Check this anti-Web 2.0 Wiki out and add your own definitions...

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20.2.06

Satan’s Portfolio: RCII, Gazprom, and Verizon

Future additions will be in threes, as all bad things come in threes. Here is an explanation of Johnny's Satan's Portfolio Investing Thesis.

Rent-A-Center (ticker: RCII)



Rent-A-Center targets the least educated and poorest American demographics and sells them rapidly...


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19.2.06

Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

-Cicero

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18.2.06

Sell Out Saturday: Announcing Our Intention to IPO

On Blogshares.com. More details to follow but we will be marketing our IPO in due time. Prepare to have enough capital to be able to own a fictitious piece of us.

Follow Our Initial Public Offering

17.2.06

Short the Guy Next to the Guy

Months ago I got free business cards for longorshort.blogspot.com with the intention of some guerilla marketing. Never happened. So yesterday, I got around to doing something about it and and gave the guy who stands next to the guy who gives out free daily newspapers the stack of 200 business cards and offered to pay him $20 to...

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16.2.06

Longue ou court...en francais

Mes amis! Regardez cette page ici régulièrement si vous voulez lire des articles financiels en francais mauvais. Cette page = "super cool".

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14.2.06

The Time Barron's Investing Thesis

Barron's

Fact: Barron's is the best mainstream financial publication, frequently making incredible calls. The question though is what is your catalyst for exiting your position? It's awesome to have a great reason (Barron's) to buy a stock, but it's decidely not awesome to not know when to sell it...

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13.2.06

How do you know if something is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0 is on the tips of fingers and lips of influentierati across the web. But how do you know if you, a product of yours, an investment of yours or a service you use is Web 2.0? This handy reference sheet will help guide you.

Is it a Web 1.0 idea repackaged, reinvested in, and resold as a new content delivery paradigm social calendar platform?

It is Web 2.0!

Does it talk about community or social networking without any natural way of accomplishing it?

It is Web 2.0!

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12.2.06

Quotes Entirely Relevant To Investing

There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
-Leon Trotsky

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11.2.06

Sell Out Saturday: Linking with No Shame

So our last true sell out effort, was changing this page to show candy ads. It yielded proof that our readers hate chocolate, since our finance ads got far more clicks. Today's effort won't be about direct revenue generation, but merely direct whoring.

We urge you, our readers, to post a link to longorshortcapital.com wherever you have the capacity to do it. Be it a forum you are a part of, an illegal underground file trading network which you rip for, or a website you run, post a link to our site. Any link posted will get a reciprocal link if you email misterjuggles@gmail.com. If you have any qualms about doing it or fear shame, just ask yourself "What would Genghis Khan do?"

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10.2.06

Long or Short Announces Q2′06 Dividend of $1.50

Creating value for our subscribers, that's what we are all about. If we don't get you with our content, we'll instead reel you in with our dividends. Long or Short Capital is happy to announce our Q2'06 dividend of $1.50 per subscriberholder per our dividend policy. A subscriberstake is now worth $75, assuming no growth and an 8% discount rate. Assuming just a measly 5% annual growth in our dividend gets you to a value of $200 for a subscriberstake. How much does a subscriberstake cost? $0. We bring the value to you. Given our float of 85 subscriberstakes and the no growth assumption, our current capitilization is...

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Fruit Drinks in Spain

In Saudi Arabia, they stone you for committing a crime. In Spain, they fruit you.



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8.2.06

The Cleavage Hypothesis

While subscribers to the Wall Street Journal don't usually read Vogue, the finance world does pay attention to at least one aspect of women's fashion: the length of their skirts. For the lay investor, I am not making a reference to stockbrokers starring at their secretaries' asses as they bend down to get more Form 144's. I'm referring to the Hemline Theory, which in its most general form, states that there is a relation between the "fashionable" length of skirts and...

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Article contributed by "Female to be Named Later"

7.2.06

Products So Good They’re Dangerous: AAPL

A recent lawsuit (see more details here) accuses Apple of making a product, the iPod, so compelling and feature-filled that it is dangerous to its user. In this case, the accuser claims the iPod's massive capacity for tasty tunes of tempting him...

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6.2.06

Long or Short Capital Reports Q2′06 Results

Long or Short Capital's fiscal quarter ended on 1/31/06, and the company reported their results in a press release on their site:

Mister Juggles: "We completed a watershed first Half to our 2006 Fiscal Year. Q2'06 was our best quarter ever, thanks to the genius of management and a compensation package which continues to be heavily weighted towards long dated options in the company's non-existent stock. We have an ever increasing amount of skin in the game so you should trust us, subscribe your friends to our site and find ways to generate more free cash flow for us which will turn into dividends for you...

Unaudited Financial Results for Q2'06 and additional commentary here

5.2.06

Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing


"The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters."
-Genghis Khan

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2.2.06

Clear Buy Signal for ORCL

A clear buy signal for Oracle (ORCL) is provided in a SF Chronic Article on Larry Ellison's spending habits:

"In e-mails, which stem from a recent shareholder lawsuit against the technology titan, Ellison's accountant, Philip Simon, warns the billionaire about his habitual runaway spending...

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1.2.06

Incredibly True Quick Serve Restaurant Truths #2

Cedric Burgher, formerly the CFO of Burger King, is now the CFO of KBR, the division of Halliburton (HAL) that does contingency support and various government subcontracting in Iraq and hotspots around the world. Burgher moved from one about to IPO company....

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