The Barron's Roundtable

Barron's, the weekly financial magazine, began its 3 part Roundtable series covering the financial markets this week. The Roundtable's participants include the business world's elite. Bill Gross, Art Samberg, and Mario Gabelli are a few of the names. It is held at Barron's headquarters on a semi-annual basis and is a forum at which all things pertinent to the financial markets are discussed and debated. Years ago Samberg pounded the table on Citrix. I think it was the winter of 1998. Citrix turned into a 10 bagger, so these guys definitely have some keen foresight. The paper is well worth the $5 price tag.

The roundtable took place at Barron's headquarters where Alan Abelson writes his weekly column. While there he he may have run into Fred Hickey the prominent tech expert. The two have been staunch bears on the markets for quite some time and at the moment the market seems to be going their way. It makes you wonder when they ran into each other if they danced the jig since the markets were tumbling that day. As a friend of mine put it "maybe the two were dancing around like two bears in the woods who just stumbled on a picnic basket." I said to my friend that it was possible but without a photo I would find it hard to believe. So if anyone has a photo of Hickey and Abelson dancing to REM's "Its The End Of The World" please send it in.