·How Facebook friends helped a young parent invest in the wildly successful children's show Chuggington and see her stock values climb 50 percent? ·How did an everyday trip to 7-Eleven alert a teenager to short Snapple stockand tripled his money in seven days ·How could $1000 invested consecutively in Uggs, True Religion jeans, and Crocs over five years grew to $750,000 ·How did Michelle Obama cause J. Crew's stock to soar 186 percent? Laughing at Wall Street will show you how. Chris Camillo is not a stockbroker, financial analyst, or hedge fund manager. And yet in early 2007, in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, he invested $20,000 in the stock market, and grew it to just over $2 million in only three years. How did he do it? By observing the world around him. Along with his own keen observations, Chris leverages family, friends, coworkers, and online networks like Facebook and LinkedIn to create what he calls "trend-spotting networks." These netwo