The Merrill Lynch Bull Is Back?

So I saw this powerful looking bull on TV today. And it looked so smart and strong that I just had to call up the bank associated with the bull. I think it was a bank. It was someplace called, "Merrill Lynch", it rings a bell. In fact, I thought they went out of business or were bought out by another bank or had a CEO who bought really expensive rugs. Something like that. Anyway, the bull was just so beautiful looking and so pretty that I had to call them and have them manage my retirement money - you

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Would the Henry Blodget Who Used to Work at Merrill Lynch Say Buy Facebook?

The new Henry Blodget, who runs the Business Insider and shows up on CNBC from time to time, is very calm and rational, there's no pumping up stocks just because Merrill Lynch wants to do business with these companies. Ten to twelves years have gone by, it's a new day on Wall Street, and everyone deserves a second chance and Henry seems like a good guy. Back in 2000 though, during the tech bubble, when Blodget worked for Merrill Lynch, he gave conflicting ratings of stocks, publicly he touted Internet stocks as buys, privately though, he berated them. I'm

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Tagged cnbc, facebook, fast money, Henry Blodget, merrill lynch