Dear Readers, Thanks for your support and readership. Starting Friday or thereabouts you can contact me through GreenbergMeritz Research & Analytics at www.greenbergmeritz.com. I will no longer maintain a public blog. I will, however, continue to appear on TV. May the Hostile React-o-Meter spin outta control, outta control, I tell ya. The beat goes on… [...](more)

From the “you have only a few more days to kick me around” department: I’ve written here previously about the uptick rule and whether it is the cause of all that ills the financial world, er, the stock market. I won’t sit here and argue whether it should be reinstated. The markets have clearly become [...](more)