After watching the late re-run of the March 12th edition of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, I find myself inspired, revitalized and struggling with the inactivity of this blog for the past year. It just might be the right kick-in-the-butt for this blog to come out of semi-retirement?
I feel bad for Jim Cramer. I truly do! And not because he looked ass-silly, being forced into this confrontation by CNBC; a move that will inevitably close the curtains for Cramer’s on-air career. I felt sorry for Cramer not because …

Nation, if you’re like me, everyone’s crazed about tax season. I haven’t file my taxes yet, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t done my taxes. There’s a difference! More on that next time..
But why is it a “season”? Why worry about it only this time of the year? Shouldn’t we treat it with an around-the-year preparation attitude? I guess one person simply can’t change the mass hysteria around this topic. But one man is doing his best to help you out — Stephen Colbert. He has the funniest solution to …

Did you see last night’s Colbert Report? Stephen Colbert ran a great segment satirizing financial pundits, and even utilized some Jim Cramer-esque props! If anybody can point me to a video / link of the segment, I’d very much appreciate it. Here were Stephen’s topics as I remembered:

Real Estate
Oil & Gas
The ridiculous anti-trust history of AT&T
Soy Milk!!!

My favourite part was when he kept hitting the button to get a prediction but getting the reply to “ask again later …”. He finally got a “yes” and his priceless reaction was “There’s …

I’m lucky to count Larry MacDonald as one of Investorial’s readers. Larry is an economist, author of several business books and currently runs the Investment Ideas blog at Canadian Business Online. He is currently doing a series rounding up Canadian financial blogs. So far he’s profiled bloggers such as Canadian Capitalist, Bill Cara, The Dividend Guy, Yaser Anwar and many more. I have been consistently reading many of those blogs, and am discovering new ones through this process.
Investorial was lucky enough to also get mentioned by Larry in the …

A quick update on the various mash-up experiments involving social networking and stock picking since I last reported on it. TheStreet.com has bought into a venture founded in part by one of its writers, James Altucher. You can read about the StockPickr.com joint venture from James himself.
Two things of note. A contrarian investor like myself by nature does not subscribe to the theory of the “wisdom of crowds”. I didn’t sign up to try out the StockPickr service, because I don’t anticipate putting it to good use. Having a big …

Before I break out into a Sally Field “moment”, I just want to show my appreciation for receiving such a humbling mention at WallStreetSelect.com’s recent readers’ choice award for most insightful investment blog of the year. I must stick out like a sore thumb when compared to the other names on the list, since I know and have read everyone of the honorable mentions.
How Investorial got nominated in the first place is still a mystery to me! And though I might question why Digg appears as an investment blog, …

During this Happy Holiday season, I want to thank you for your readership! Investorial started as a forum for my rants and reactions to investment / financial media out there, who’d have thought people would want to read them? I’m very humbled by that fact. I’m even more grateful for being able to forge relationships with bloggers out there such as Canadian Capitalist, InvestorGeeks, and AOL Blogging Stocks. Merry Christmas to you!
What about my gift? Like Charlie Brown, I don’t have much to offer. But please believe that my wish …

Will Smith’s latest movie “The Pursuit Of Happyness” opened in theaters December 15th, 2006. This isn’t a movie review, but as all my other writings on this blog, it’s my editorial from a financial and a personal perspective.
The movie’s title really spoke to me at a time when I’m trying to decide how happy I currently am, and what is it that I want to pursue; what direction I want to take. The movie is based on a true story. But though most people feel that this story is about …