Sooner, rather than later, it seems! The Fast Money contributor apparently wrote on Minyanville just now that he’ll be back in action Monday, in post entitled “People Say I’m Crazy…” (which we can’t see, lacking a login, so those who can should get in touch). The “crazy” is presumably a reference to this appearance on the Kudlow report last week:
The Mackster’s been MIA since then, with Steve Grasso taking his seat on the show. It’s unclear if this means his contract with the network, which is said to be up in June, has been renewed or if this is more of a send-off type situation. We hope it’s the former, as none of you can deny the above performance is just the sort of thing that place needs more of.
Update: Here’s what J-Mack wrote. Apparently the meltdown coincided with a vacation he’s had planned for a while.
Greetings from New York, where I’m taking a long-planned staycation, which morphed into a trip to Charlotte to address a ministry group on how to best help congregations deal with the financial crisis.
My underlying message was, is, and will likely remain:
1. Don’t invest in hope, because that rules out anything financial (save, possibly, Goldman Sachs (GS));
2. Don’t “buy and hold” and get uninvested to the point where you rediscover your sense of peace regarding their financial positioning. At that point, let’s begin the rebellion against the pure lunacy and flat-out illegal manner in which this administration takes control of companies who long-ago earned the right to be euthanized.
All apologies to those offended by the absurd (and endless) bailout of General Motors (GM). If you’re delighted to pay for the better part of Detroit, I really can’t speak for or to you. You likely think I’m crazy, and I doubt you understand what’s unfolding before your very eyes. If you’re actually in favor of leapfrogging socialism straight into totalitarianism, let’s just agree not to talk to one another at all.
Regardless, I haven’t been “kicked off” or “put on probation” from Fast Money. I plan on being there next Monday. That’s simply all I have to say on the matter.
baldy is back baby!
I have no idea…I’m going to talk to you like a child…I’m going eat a car and your a child that eats the car…I’m not going to leave my car…I’m tweaked…on rails
Hey!!…huh??…what?? You car people are I’m so sure that you child how do you what??? Talk to you!! Talk to you!! Howard Dean said it best car people when he said, “Yeeeaaaaahhhhhhhh” to all you US Americans!!! I’m done with you Space Shuttle and then what??? Hey!!! The collection plate is in Detroit baby and YOW!!! Mr. Baseball!!! A hotfoot on TV huh???
@3 you forgot to nod your head if you don’t anti-understandable
Jeff Macke is John Galt.
God help us.
Babble of an early short of bailout targets and debasement. Who is the child?
So glad Macke is coming back! The show with Dennis was priceless.
If he is coming back I do hope he brings a huge bag of that weed he was smoking.
If you don’t understand him, you are either (a) dead or (b) crazy, or (c) let’s just not talk, ok?
Just to clarify, is the J-Macke nickname a reference to the autistic basketball player J-Mac?
Just to clarify, is the J-Macke nickname a reference to the autistic basketball player J-Mac?
And a big F U to Dyl Rat.
Herman Mack ate a car… probably no relation
charlotte? congregation? crisis? I was hoping KL was running his televangelist biz better than his bank.
Fast Money should have a two minute session entitled “Crazy Macke.” Macke gives a one minute commentary on any subject and the rest of the talent get a minute to figure out what he just said.
Gold, Jerry! Gold!
@15 i’d watch
He sounds a lot better.
Still sounds nuts.
It’s obvious that the medication that he resumed taking hasn’t entirely kicked in yet.
All the blow he’s on is/has/and will continue to be fully kicked in.
I think DealBreaker needs to sell a shirt that says “I see Car People!”
@21 FTW
A “staycation”, hmm? In upstate New York? For his own sake, I sincerely hope it’s one of those “vacations” on a lovely estate with gourmet food and a luxurious suite, but where you are “encouraged” to stay until your “tour guide” determines that you are fully “rested” . . .
@15
Anything is better than watching that idiot Pisani give the markets a handjob
I hope he got a lot of money for that dignity he sold all those years ago…
I love Jeff Macke. I stopped watching financial tv but Macke is and was always great. Interesting, strings unusual sentances, he’s funny, he makes you consider, and if he is crazy then more power to him. He’s the best.
The horror, the horror …
Macke’s latest, getting back to his roots and an interesting bit about his dad:
http://www.minyanville.com/articles/TGT-Ackman-target-haft/index/a/22852
He’s been right on the macro, and the market could be killing him with this unrelenting rally. That’ll drive a trader crazy as the marks go against him. The best traders are different to begin with, so…
Does anybody on Planet Earth talk in anything but tongues?
29 Poolooseebagumba.
Jeff Macke is a complete ASS! He is arrogant, not nearly as knowledgeable as he thinks, and quite frankly useless as a financial commentator. He failed as a money manager and should go back to Minny and work at Target. I hope he’s gone – good riddanceood riddance
Jeff Macke is a complete ASS! He is arrogant, not nearly as knowledgeable as he thinks and quite frankly useless as a financial commentator. He failed as a money manager and should go back to Minny and work at Target.
Come back soon Jeff; your one of us, and I look forward to hearing your perspective! ! !
He’s like my sis who’s bi-polar…just makes random statements with really no connection to reality…fortunately, meds can help bring him back down to earth.
He’s like my sis who’s bi-polar…just makes random statements with really no connection to reality…fortunately, meds can help bring him back down to earth.