Tea Parties Set for Mobile and Daphne as Shelby Renews Flat Tax Push on Tax Day
The Common Sense Campaign will rally at Bienville Square and the Daphne Civic Center on April 15, while Sen. Richard Shelby marks the filing deadline with a call to end…
Wrestling the Bear: A Baldwin County Retiree’s Plan to Trade His Way to Disney World
With the market falling and a promised family trip on the line, a retired paper mill manager in Baldwin County laid out the leveraged ETF trading system he used to…
The Bottom Came in December: A Mobile Broker on the 1974 Crash, Recovery, and a Diagnosis He Did Not Expect
In the gloom of late 1974 a Mobile stockbroker drew up two models of the future and labeled them Doom and Boom. The market gave him his answer on December…
Bring Wall Street to Main Street: A Mobile Broker’s First Licensed Years
Part three of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: a Christmas bonus paid in whiskey, an NYSE exam graded by the boss, and a tape so slow a quote took…
The Cabal Behind the Stock Board: Five Mobile Brokers Shop for a New Firm
Part twelve of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: five brokers met each afternoon after the boss left for his club, plotting to sell a ready-made Mobile office to a…
The Day a Newcomer Called Zenith to 300 and Stopped a Mobile Office Cold
Part five of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: brokers gave a suspicious Northern newcomer a wide berth, until the day he staged a trading feat nobody in the office…
The Sitters, the Soybean Doctor and a Change of Command Downtown
Part four of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: retired men who spent their days watching the tape, a shift in command at the brokerage, and the return of the…
‘What Have I Gotten Into?’ A New Broker Takes the Measure of Mobile’s Little Wall Street
Part two of a serialized memoir of a bygone Mobile: a rookie account executive discovers that all three of the men above him at the downtown brokerage have a drinking…
St. Patrick’s Day, 1952: How a Mobile Sportswriter Wandered Into the Brokerage Business
The first installment of a serialized memoir of a bygone Mobile recalls a 31-year-old juggling three jobs who walked into a downtown brokerage office next door to the liquor store.
Nobody Rings a Bell at the Top: A Mobile Brokerage’s Bear Market Revolt
Part eleven of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: a brutal 1962 bear market, a boss who berated a broker on the morning his mother-in-law was dying, and the plot…