Wall Street Folly

It's Official: We've moved! Our new home is www.wallstreetfolly.com

Please join us over at our new Wall Street Folly site.  We're still working out some kinks, but it's up and running! (Note, if for some reason you're not directed to that site, keep trying.  It gonna take a bit for the redirection of our wallstreetfolly.com url to be propogated through the system.)

"Change has come to Whitehouse.gov"

Welcome to the new WhiteHouse.gov. I'm Macon Phillips, the Director of New Media for the White House and one of the people who will be contributing to the blog.

A short time ago, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States and his new administration officially came to life. One of the first changes is the White House's new website, which will serve as a place for the President and his administration to connect with the rest of the nation and the world.

The White House blog's first post, dated today

The Icahn Report: Carl responds to criticism from the Chicago Tribune's Eric Benderoff

After Carl's blog finally went live, he was criticized in a 6/19/08 Chicago Tribune blog article penned by Eric Benderoff entitled "Memo to blogger Icahn: Give Power to the people, not your lawyers".  Benderoff took the new blog to task over its format and legalities.  Icahn responds, telling him that his activist status requires the format and legalities, but that he (Benderoff) has missed the mark: that the blog is looking to expose bad corporate governance behavior, and hopefully over time, some of the restrictions will ease, but for now, it is what it is.

It's here! It's here! Carl Icahn's blog is FINALLY live

Guess they were putting the finishing touches on Carl Icahn's new blog when it was offline earlier today, but Carl Icahn's blog is no longer an urban myth.  He actually has several posts up, dating back to June 12, with a "Thanks for the Support" post.  Other posts include "Absurdity of The Poison Pill" (6/13), "Comments on Sandy Weill's Statements Concerning Citigroup" (6/14), "Absurdity of the Staggered Board" (6/15), "About CEOs – Anti Darwinian Metaphor – Survival of the Unfittest" (6/16), "Absurdity of Corporate Board Elections" (6/16), "Corporate Democracy is a Myth" (6/18)

We haven't yet had time to digest it all, but here's the link

 

Hopefully it's not an ominous sign that Carl Icahn's blog is now offline

We just checked to see if Carl Icahn's new blog was up and running yet -- it's supposed to finally go live today.  We were surprised to see that it's not even online anymore -- that a GoDaddy parking page is what you get.  Hopefully it means that they're working on it and there aren't more lawyer issues that will prevent the blog from finally opening today....

Blogging virgin no more?: After teasing us since February, Carl Icahn's blog is finally going live on Thursday

At least that's what Reuters is reporting.  We hope that it's not just another tease, with his lawyers somehow getting in the way again -- that had been the excuse.   And we're sure he'll have plenty to talk about.  We suspect that the day chosen to lose his blogging virginity is no coincidence -- it's the day of Biogen Idec's annual meeting, and Carl's embroiled in a proxy fight with them, trying to his slate of 3 board members elected so that he can force a sale of the company; he owns around 4%.  Most sources seem to favor Biogen to win the fight.  But no doubt there will be choice words and we're waiting with anxious anticipation....

We're told that our blog isn't loading or is very slow.....

Sorry 'bout that, but our webhost  Typepad, is having issues.  Hopefully they'll fix problems soon....

Carl Icahn's long awaited blog is set to launch in May

That's according to Reuters.  He's been teasing us since early February that it was "coming soon".  We await the arrival of "The Icahn Report" with anxious anticipation! 

Carl Icahn is adding a new weapon to his arsenal -- a blog

There'll soon be a new blog in town, penned by none other than famed activist investor Carl Icahn. He'll  focus on what he perceives to be management problems at public companies, including ones that he's not currently involved in. There's not much there right now -- just a front page that says "Blog Coming Soon" with a picture of the man.  We look forward to its launch with anxious anticipation. Welcome to the neighborhood, Carl!       

No it wasn't your imagination...our blog was down this afternoon

We've gotten a bunch of email letting us know that our blog was down this afternoon.  Sorry 'bout that, but our blog host had server issues and they were down.  Thanks for being patient!