- Organ donor TV show triggers condemnation. "Do you want to keep your briefcase and hope it contains a kidney and risk picking another briefcase? Or do you want to take the banker's offer?"
- So much for sell in May and go away... This from Yahoo Finance: So much for investors fretting about the old adage, "sell in May and go away." Blue-chip stocks may have ended today's session in lackluster fashion, but sellers this May were few and far between. The bull market continues.
- Oil prices were down $5 in May. Of course that didn't make its way to the pumps. Although gasoline prices are pumped up. I went to a station yesterday and that only allows $50 worth of fuel. Didn't fill it up! "They" blame refinery capacity and summer refinery conversions. "Shyeah, Wayne. And monkeys might fly out of my butt." More on the high gas prices from Time.
- Are you following the ethanol market? Here's an article on the supply glut and the worry that this will drive down prices. But do you kow the real bad news? This is causing beer prices to rise! In Germany, farmers are switching from barley to environmentally friendly crops in order to cash in on the biofuels craze! Like most Germans, brewer Helmut Erdmann is all for the fight against global warming. Unless, that is, it drives up the price of his beer. Who cares about gasoline prices? THIS. IS. SERIOUS.
- China and the Mother of All Double-Tops. From Barry Ritholtz.
- Kevin Stecyk has *finaly* finished uploading pictures of Jennifer Nguyen to his Flickr account! If you click on her picture above, you will be taken to a larger version.
- "Dude, you're fired." Dell eliminating 8,800 jobs.
- Nielson ratings for TV commercials? (I have bad news for you folks. I use a DVR and fast-forward through commercials.)
