p-How Facebook friends helped a young parent invest in the wildly successful children's show iChuggington iand see her stock values climb 50 percent br-How did an everyday trip to 7-Eleven alert a teenager to short Snapple stock--and tripled his money in seven days br-How could 1000 invested consecutively in Uggs, True Religion jeans, and Crocs over five years grew to 750,000 br-How did Michelle Obama cause J. Crew's stock to soar 186 percent ppiLaughing at Wall Streeti will show you how. pp 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. pp How did he do it By observing the world around him.pp 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.