Soccer, indoor football, arena football, you could have lacrosse down here. A canadian tycoon eventually bought the silverdome in 2009. Not for lacrosse, though. The place cost 55 million to build when they first built it. He got it for a half million. The tycoon had wanted to put a casino in there. But last year voters said no to that. Well, this is pontiacs formally 55 million silverdome right now. Look at that. Over the past week, wind storms have shredded the silverdomes inflatable roof. So now the weather comes right in. But dont worry. The new owner said they were going to build a new roof anyway. He said the silverdome in tatters in the brief michigan winter is not really the disaster it look like. Its more like a very, very rough phase 1, the demo phase. Michigan is amazing. Michigan republicans, you in particular are amazing. On Inauguration Day this week, while the president was being sworn in for the start of his second term, Michigan Republicans back home, they spent the da
You could have lacrosse down there. A canadian tycoon bought the place. It cost 55 billion to build. He got it for a half million dollars. He wanted to put a casino in there. Voters said no to that. Pontiacs formerly 55 million silverdome right now. Look at that. Over the past week, windstorms have shredded the silverdomes inflatable roof so the weather comes right in. Do not worry, the owner says they were going to build a new roof anyway. This is not really the diss ter looks like. A very, very rough phase one, the demophase. For his next big plan to make money on the dome that nobody wanted in the city that is so broke. Michigan is amazing. Republicans, you in particular are amazing. On inauguration day, being sworn in for the second term. Michigan republicans spent the day talking about turning an island into a new independent country. It would be ruled based on the fictional pseudo economic nominals of ayn rand. After insisting there was no reason to strip union rights, michigan r
Never the crime, it is the coverup. Right. Thats what they say. Can anyone here play this game . Does anyone know how to do this despite the trading halt, stocks shook i was surprised they were able to shake that off. Nobody likes strange, weird things and they close with modest gains yesterday. The dow, in fact, could have traded lower, had done it six straight days, but it didnt. And Broader Market activity, treasury yields continued to climb. And in addition to absolutely beating the nasdaq story to death today, we are going to continue to figure out what the fed is going to do. We have lockhart and bullard on and Steve Liesman. The story we have been beating to death for weeks now. We want the exchanges to work. The facebook and everything else, it is interesting, we love doing it, but the big picture doesnt usually change. At some point, the Technology Gets better, it gets more the nasdaq has more competition these days. Theyre the first one. They should be the ones that have it d
This morning defended the way hisses change defended the outage. He added that he was, quote, proud of the fact that we had an orderly close. Guys, heres how its playing on the front page of paper it is people have not seen. Nasdaq in fresh market failure is the way the journal puts it across the top of the fold. Nasdaq paralyzed by technical breakdown is the ft. And then, jim, usa today, wall street yawns as nasdaq goes dark. I thought that was the most cogent of all. No one really cared. Bob said everything was good. They did a great job. Its fine. I want to let people know we speak with people around here. They all scoffed and laughed at that. Bob said what he did. I felt what i felt which was that the lack of communication was terrible. I had the unfortunate moment where i had to be on air and had to try to speculate. The way you cut back on speculation is to come out and say, guys, heres what we think is happening. We were all stuck trying to speculate because the communication wa
Billionaires this week, and a certain millionaire actor. Well get to that in a bit. First, bill ackman was leveling a charge at zoros fund. A stock that ackman is shorting. The question is was that illegal or is this just a case of sour grapes . Former s. E. C. Boss harvey pitt will weigh in. Also, much more fallout from George Clooneys fullthroated assault on dan loeb and his move to try to split up movies. Is clooney biting the hand that feeds hollywood . Well look at that and more. Look forward to that. Also black monday for Major League Baseball. Multiple suspensions for performanceenhancing drugs coming down at any moment. Alex rodriguez is expected to get the worst of it. Maybe thats why hes the only one fighting the suspensions. Were live in chicago where a. Rod is still expected to play his first game of the season this evening. You cant make this up, folks. We are there for the spectacle. Turning our attention to the markets right now. As we mentioned, the dow is down by about