TONY Blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... lost astronaut followed instructions written by authors and artists including New Yorker writer Michael Shulman, artist and Hercules and Love Affair alum Kim Ann Foxman, and performance artist Marina Abramovic.Although the performances are over, the astronaut’s base camp—which displays logs and photos of her excursions and architectural models of moon homes—is on view at APF Lab (15...
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Michael Shulman submits: Valuation alone is never a reason to short a stock - not even when it is 487 times current earnings. Slowing growth can be a reason for shorting a stock - a momentum stock that goes from a 100% to a 20% growth rate in less than two years. A secondary offering that sells no company shares but insider and private investors shares - is that a warning sign? Or how...
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Michael Shulman submits: Too bad blood banks are not publicly held, they, on and off, would be great shorts. Friday, an article in the Wall Street Journal highlighted the ongoing difficulties a critical supplier, the American Red Cross, was having keeping the FDA happy. A couple of days ago the same publication published a piece on how swine flu was inhibiting people from donating or...
Going Out Gurus (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
"I don't think any of us had any great ambitions or imagined putting out more than one or two singles each. We really just wanted documents of what we were doing, and putting out singles seemed to make the most sense." That's Michael Shulman of Slumberland Records, talking about the modest beginnings of his record label, which he founded in Silver Spring 20 years ago and now...
