People tell us that we play too loud
But they don't know what our music's about
We never listen to the record company man
They try to change us and ruin our band.

That's why we don't wanna be good
That's why we don't wanna be good
We're prisoners of rock and roll.

When were jammin' in our old garage
The girls come over and it sure gets hot
We don't wanna be watered down
Takin' orders from record company clowns.

That's why we don't wanna be good
That's why we don't wanna be good
We're prisoners of rock and roll.

We're prisoners of rock and roll. - Neil Young

CodyWillard.com is, alas, becoming cody.blogs.foxbusiness.com.

Am I just a classic sell out at this point? I have to wonder exactly that if I can flatter myself for a minute, don’t I, as the move is made…

The whole of my blog, starting with TheCodyBlog.com or even the original TelEconomist.com days, is something which frankly I’ve come to associate my self-identity with, at least in some part. And it is now fully engulfed by a mainstream media outlet… The Man. Hmm.At any rate, rest assured that there will be absolutely no change in the the thrust of the content and what I write and say around here. I'll not pull any punches -- none that I'd not pull on my own anyway at least, you know. I'll still write in exactly the same voice, calling it exactly as I see it, Flipping It as best as I can (though I suppose being as fully part of a mainstream media company, a giant conglomerate makes my trying to Flip It [Flipping It - a term I've trademarked and defined as doing or thinking exactly opposite conventional wisdom] a bit more challenging by definition, doesn't it?) and basically being exactly who I've always been as best as I can.

I’ll post lots of stock, economic, and societal analysis and commentary, lots of music, personal stories and home videos and photologs and whatever else I want, whenever I want, however I want...as long as the technology's supported and all that, which, come to think of it, means one change to the blog will be that I won't be able to embed videos any more until FoxBusiness.com chooses to greenlight that ability. Sigh, the control starts even as I say it won't, doesn't it?

Well, at least they can't stop me from writing that the control starts, can they?

We're Prisoners of Rock n Roll, but let's keep on rockin' in the free world, eh?

Yes, ironically, you'll have to click on the link below since I can't embed the video since I've sold out and now don't have the control I did if you want to scream with the Godfather of Grunge himself.

All that said, as far as my media career is concerned, you guys do realize I started off with a telecom stock website called TelEconomist.com and got a break from Jim Cramer and TheStreet.com by responding to one of his columns back in 2000 and now, yes, my blog is moving to Fox? I am pretty proud of that too, you see!

See you on the other side then.

We have the following guests on tap.....

-Amy McAnarney, H&R Block Executive Director

-Vitali Klitschko

-Bob O'Brien Barron's

-Josh Cohen, Google

-Steve Paster

-Lynn Reaser, Bank of America Economist

-Jon Friedman

We have the following guests booked for this evening:

-Lisa Lockwood, beauty queen turned swat member

-Hosea Chanchez, actor

-James Dyson, Dyson Vacuumes

-Bob Meighan, Intuit

-Charles Payne

-Steve Orlins, National Committee on U.S. China Relations President

-Todd Harrison

-Scott Rothbort

Join Cody and Rebecca Gomez for a live Happy Hour at the Bull and Bear at 5:00–or at 5:00 and 11:00pm on FB

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We have the following guests booked for this evening:

-Jerry Moskowitz, FTSE Americas

-Mike Santoli, Barrons

-Patrick Lashinsky, Ziprealty CEO

-Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Why Women Mean Buisness Co-Author

-Alison Maitland, Why Women Mean Buisness Co-Author

-Imogen Lloyd Webber

-Marc Sperling, Sperling Enterprises LLC President

Join Cody and Rebecca Gomez for a live Happy Hour at the Bull and Bear at 5:00–or at 5:00 and 11:00pm on FB

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We have the following guests booked for this evening:
-John Huddy

-Lama Pema, Monk

-Dan Mchugh, VP of Budweiser & Bud Light

-Don Peebles, Peebles Corp. Chairman & CEO

-Bruce Vincent, Swift Energy President

-Steve Grasso, Stuart Frankel

-Kirsten Haglund, Miss America

-Tiernan Ray,Barron's

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Didn't I mention yesterday something about this market's ability to rally on bad news these days?

That jobs report was clearly bad news. To be clear, I don't care that it was worse than some clueless economists polled by some news organization or not.  The point is that we lost 80,000 jobs as measured by our antiquated governmental measuring systems, and the magnitude of that along with all the data points we get elsewhere, simply confirms the hard economic times we're going through.

You really needed a jobs report for that?  No, and neither did the market and thus...

We rally on bad news.

And that's bullish.

Let's say we find out there's another $100 billion in losses at the US investment banks from the mortgage bubble coming unwound.  No, even better, let's say there's another quarter of a trillion of losses at than i-banks and other financial institutions in this country. And what would you think if you wake up tomorrow and find out that oil supplies are being disrupted and the world's economies are slipping along with the US.

Would you be surprised?  No, of course not.  And neither would the stock market at this point, it seems, no?

And what if it turns out the mortgage write-downs are nearly over.  Or more to the point, let's say there's some new development of peace and it turns out that the consumer picks up her spending again this summer and that the enterprises around the world start investing in new technologies and productivity and GDP numbers perk up.

I feel almost silly just writing that last graph...we'd all be shocked if things get better in a hurry for the economy and fundamentals.

And see, doesn't that say it all about why you've gotta stay bullish and long for the near-term...and, as I said on Happy Hour last night -- maybe even expect the stock markets to reach new highs into early summer...

Even the bad economic news about jobs and the rest of the ugly data from the last couple weeks along with the testimony on Capitol hill from the idiots who've created this mess for us have all resulted in a steadily climbing stock market from the recent lows.

When stocks flatline or bounce on bad news...you gotta ask yourself, what would they do on, yes I'm gonna throw it out there -- good news.  "Flip it", right?

Buy the fear and bad news, sell the euphoria and good news.

We have the following guests booked for this evening:

-Pierre-Emmanuel Tattinger, French Champagne House

-Al Haverson, Frito Lay

-Mike Santoli, Editor, Barrons

-Seth Goldman, Honest Tea-EO & Founder

-Veronica Barton, Schwarz Veronica SPA

-Dr Jennifer Ashton

  -Carolyn B., Maloney Congresswoman (D), Hillary Supporter

-Sandra Smith

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We have the following guests booked for this evening:

-Rich "Big Daddy" Salgado, Coastal Advisors President & Ceo      
-Roger Kubarych, Unicredit Chief U.S. Economist    
-Rich Donnelly, Apenbio Pharma      
-Chris Mcdonald, Actor
-Carla Moquin, Parenting in the Workplace Institute Pres.
-Rep. Ed Royce, R-California
-Meredith Ochs and Chris T “Freewheelin’” on Sirius Radio

Join Cody and Rebecca Gomez for a live Happy Hour at the Bull and Bear at 5:00–or at 5:00 and 11:00pm on Click HERE to find out where you can See Happy Hour where you live.

Not much to add to this one either.  Gotta love the start of the 3rd quarter, eh? ;)

Amazing Virtual Pee Experience from Japan

As any good geek should know by now Japan has some of the wackiest and most unusual products anywhere.PS.  Nintendo's stock, like Google's stock, is a buy right now too.