David Pinsen

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Camels in Manhattan

Cheryl took this pic at 8:30am today. Presumably, they were there for the Radio City Christmas Spectacular.

Me on Bloomberg TV

Well, my tweet, actually. This one got mentioned Margaret Brennan’s “InBusiness” show yesterday morning:
@margbrennan You nearly died once from riding 90 mph on the NJ Turnpike without a seatbelt. Was that emblematic of your approach to risk? $$
— David Pinsen (@dpinsen) December8, 2011

I was hoping to embed a clip of Ms. Brennan reading that tweet [...]

A quick Alloy Steel update

Last month, I emailed the list of questions below to Alloy Steel’s CFO, Barry Woodhouse (disregard the emoticon; that should be the numeral “8″). I told Woodhouse I was planning to write a Seeking Alpha article about the company’s Q3 and was hoping to include answers to those questions in the article. After speaking with [...]

Hedging two banks exposed to the European Sovereign Debt Crisis

“Days to save the Eurozone”, then the big rally
A couple of days before Wednesday’s coordinated central bank action goosed global markets, Wolfgang Münchau wrote in his FT column (“The Eurozone has only days to avoid collapse”) that if the European summit on December 9th didn’t lead to an ambitious three part plan to [...]

Me in the FT, and a little more AYSI

– I neglected to mention this at the time, but I picked up a few more shares of AYSI on Thursday at $0.75. No new news on it, but when I saw it hit .75 I entered a limit order which was partially filled. This was my most recent Seeking Alpha article on the [...]

Predicting the iPad in 1968

In Arthur C. Clarke’s novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, the passage below takes place during Dr. Heywood Floyd’s flight from the space station to the moon. Although the film version doesn’t give a sense of how long that flight was, the book says it was about 25 hours, so there’d be a lot of time [...]

How to market a non-mobile app to mobile app users

With a subscription web app, when someone subscribes, you have their email address. That’s not the case with an iOS app, since they are downloading it from Apple. I have email addresses for the relative handful of Portfolio Armor iOS app users who’ve e-mailed me, but not for the rest of them.
That presented something of [...]

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