by Tom Ventresca | May 7, 2018 | Mr. Seifert Sez
The Donald Has A Real Storm On His Hands I don’t know about you, but I doubt that everything is A-OK at the White House these days. It started with a rumor first reported by In Touch Weekly, a tabloid, that the President had been having trouble with his...
by Tom Ventresca | Apr 29, 2018 | Mr. Seifert Sez
Sometime Change Isn’t For The Best Megyn Kelly was the star of Fox News and when her contract ended she decided that she was ready for a new gig. She maintained that her former boss, the late Roger Alias had harassed her and was guilty of abuse. So, when...
by Tom Ventresca | Apr 22, 2018 | Mr. Seifert Sez
The last time we met with billionaire Steven A. Cohen, he was trying to keep his hedge fund SAC together and himself out of jail on insider trading charges. SAC collapsed, and Mr. Cohen made a deal with the SEC to stay out of public money management for a period of...
by Tom Ventresca | Apr 16, 2018 | Mr. Seifert Sez
Where Are They Now – Ten Years Later? It seems that as you get older time really does fly and it also seems impossible that it has been ten years since Bear Sterns blew up. That was really the start of the subprime mortgage melt down. Bear Sterns was so...
by Tom Ventresca | Apr 8, 2018 | Mr. Seifert Sez
April 9, 2018 Big Banks Back In The Trading Business! Mr. Seifert Sez Last week I commented about how the Wise Guys were licking their chops waiting for volatility to return. When the VIX was hovering around 10 for most of 2017 the...
by Tom Ventresca | Apr 2, 2018 | Mr. Seifert Sez
Talk about things going wrong, just ask Elon Musk what can happen in business! Three months ago, his stock was trading at all time highs. He was launching rockets that he believes will for all intents and purposes allow ordinary citizens the chance to fly into outer...