Portfolio manager Cale Smith on investing, Spoke Funds®, and Islamorada in the Florida Keys.

Here is the last portion of the presentation I gave up at NJIT early last year. The earlier videos in this series can be found here.

Disclaimer: My investors and I own shares of Neutral Tandem. This post in no way constitutes investment advice. Commentary on this blog should never be relied on in making an investment decision.

A final reminder…the first annual Islamorada Fishing Film Festival will be this Sunday night, May 22nd, at Founders Park. You can find more info here, in this blog post, and you can buy tickets in advance online here. Gonna be a great show, and all proceeds are going to a good cause.

Capt. Will Benson will be coming up from the lower Keys to intro his fantastic new permit movie “Satori.” Will has previously won film festival awards for some of his earlier work, and he thinks Satori is his best work yet. And here’s some behind-the-scenes footage of Will and his guys doing what they do best…fishing hard, playing hard and shooting fishin’ flicks!

Just wanted to give a public attaboy to my new favorite business weekly:

Bloomberg Businessweek

I have no idea if they’re making any money off it yet, but not only did The Mayor blessedly put the old lousy Businessweek out of its misery, but the new version has become, almost overnight, the best popular business magazine out there. And I get ‘em all, though I often wonder why…Forbes, Fortune, Bloomberg Markets, HBR, Kiplingers, Money, SmartMoney, Inc, and, oh yes, FastCompany, plus some others I’m probably forgetting. The new BBW is top dog, in my humble opinion. Plus the new iPad app is terrific.

And I don’t think I’m being hyperbolic to say that the arrival of Bloomberg Businessweek should actually give us some hope for financial journalism. Until it showed up, the best financial journalism of the past three years has been in…wait for it…Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. Seriously. I am convinced my postman thinks I’m living a double life. But if you’ve wanted to get any true insight from the popular financial press about the shenanigans that consumed Wall Street, you’ve had to read Matt Taibbi and Michael Lewis – although I should also point out that the Financial Times’ Lex page is consistently good, also.

Can’t say the same for the WSJ anymore, by the way. It’s trying so hard to compete with the NY Times that it’s rendered itself useless in terms of actionable investing ideas anymore.

Here are the two latest Bloomberg Businessweek articles that motivated this post.

1 – Taco Bell and the Golden Age of Drive-Thru

2 – Why Bin Laden Lost

Okay, that second one has nothing to do with business, and it starts with an odd premise, but follow it through to the end for a brilliant finish.

And if you missed Mary Meeker’s cover story on “USA Inc.” a few months back, check that out here, too.

So what do you say? Let’s hear it for old media!