Archive for December 8th, 2006

A: A Big Thumbs Down to David Stern for Trying To Regulate Mark Cuban’s Free Speech

Q: Who’s Right in the Mark Cuban/ David Stern NBA Feud?

mark_cuban.gifTime once again for our non-investment Friday blog. For those not familiar with my Friday blog, every Friday, I essentially blog about non-investment related topics, often business related in some sense, but sometimes not at all.

Recently, David Stern fined NBA franchise Dallas Maverick’s owner Mark Cuban U.S. $100,000 for criticizing NBA referees on his blog, blogmaverick-dot-com. For those unfamiliar with this feuding duo, David Stern is the reigning commissioner of the National Basketball Association and Mark Cuban is the outspoken billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks who made his fortune during the dot.com boom by selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo. I like Cuban for a lot of reasons. (1) He’s probably the only billionaire that the I could hang out with and feel at ease with; (2) He’s got a big mouth; and (3) He’s bitingly sarcastic.

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Mark Cuban: Is this the New Normal? (Fund my Mutual Fund, 10/29/08)
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Watch out for the Laws of Substitution

December 8, 2006 - Here’s a short casual Friday post. As sure as the sun will rise tomorrow, all toy stores will suffer a shortage of the most popular toys that your children will have asked for come Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, etc. This happens every single Holiday season. And for good reason. All toy stores know that if you’re a parent, that you’ve already promised to buy your kids the most popular toys this season. They also know if they happen to be “out-of-stock” of these popular toys, that you, the parent, will have to buy a substitute gift instead Read more …

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Apple eyes Successful Holiday Season with new Mac Notebooks (WC Power Tech Fund, 10/14/08)
Morgan Stanley memo cancels holiday parties (Idiot Inc., 11/4/08)
Budget Day!!! Whoo Hoo!!! Tax Breaks out of Hell? (Canadian Personal Finance Blog, 3/19/07)
Lead Found In Children's Toys and Furniture Recalled: Today!!! (Todd Sullivan's - ValuePlays, 5/15/07)
Read more on Toys & Games, Holiday Season at Wikinvest

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