A headline writer’s dream…
Category: Crazy
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Subway Craziness
It made for a good tabloid cover page, but it sure looked scary. A huge construction drill goes in the wrong place and nearly pierces a subway car (on the F line – hence the cover below). Thankfully, no one was hurt.
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Ten Insane Things
From The Reformed Broker, Ten Insane Things We Believe on Wall Street:
1. Falling gas and home heating prices are a bad thing
2. Layoffs are great news, the more the better
3. Billionaires from Greenwich, CT can understand the customers of JC Penney, Olive Garden, K-Mart and Sears
4. A company is plagued by the fact that it holds over $100 billion in cash
5. Some companies have to earn a specific profit – to the penny – every quarter but others shouldn’t dare even think about profits
6. Wars, weather, fashion trends and elections can be reliably predicted
7. It’s reasonable for the value of a business to fluctuate by 5 to 10 percent within every eight hour period
8. It’s possible to guess the amount of people who will get or lose a job each month in a nation of 300 million
9. The person who leads a company is worth 400 times more than the average person who works there
10. A company selling 10 million cars a year is worth $50 billion, but another company selling 40,000 cars a year is worth $30 billion because its growing faster
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Free Fall Record
Remember Felix Baumgartner’s record free fall from virtually outer space? Promoted by Red Bull, live streamed, tons of publicity?
A Google exec, quietly and with his own money, just broke the record.
Hopefully there will be videos…
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What do you see?
Look at the chart below. At a glance, what would you conclude? Amazon is kicking butt? Damn, I wish I bought their stock 10 years ago?
Or would your headline be, “Amazon’s Growth is Waning”?
If you didn’t pick the latter, you don’t understand how to drive online clicks to produce ad revenue.
Though you might be smart…
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Tweet of the Day
This is the best tweet you will see today. Someone, somewhere, will always make you smile. Courtroom transcript. http://t.co/mR2ZKyJ8NC—
John Myers (@johnmyersteam) October 23, 2014 -
Supreme Court as Dog Video
This John Oliver bit just cracked me up…
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