The number of days the S&P 500 has moved up or down more than 5% during the trading day: 1950 – 2006 = 34 days […]
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Deadbeat Homeowners Tap Texas Bankruptcy Laws
This pisses me right off. I pulled this off my newsfeed this morning. As I mentioned in Bail Out My Mortgage, skirting what is owed […]
Pirate Booty
A Saudi Arabian supertanker filled with two million barrels of crude oil was hijacked off east Africa and is now anchored close to the Somalian coast, […]
Padre Macho Burrito
Organic Bar Anyone?
A friend of mine is conducting marketing research for a potential organic concept in San Fran, if you’ve got a sec’ to complete the survey […]
“Good To Great” Index Not So Great…
Circuit City Stores and Fannie Mae show that companies singled out as great don’t necessarily make worthwhile investments. The companies were among 11 featured seven […]
Bail Out My Mortgage
I’ve kept quiet about this for quite some time. Mostly because it’s probably a pretty sensitive topic for some people. But, well, I can’t control […]
Early Snow!
Can someone please thank Chione for an early dump? Yee ha! (Chione, the snow-nymph, was the daughter of Boreas, the North Wind, and Oreithyia.)
Harvest Is Over!
The Young’s were kind enough to host a party last night to celebrate the end of the 2008 vintage, I think we counted something like […]
Infidel
Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali Mum gave me this book a while back and I read it earlier this year, just forgot to put it on […]
Yosemite, Muir Woods and Point Reyes
We had Tariq and Andrea visit us last weekend; with their recent move to New York City I’d been encouraging them since they moved to […]
The Zimmerman Wedding
The wedding at Saint Mary’s Church in Visalia The wedding party awaits the bride (left), Paul and Hilary lighting their candle (middle), Brooke and Mrs […]
The Bakker Dairy
We took a trip down to Visalia last weekend to attend the Zimmerman’s wedding, we stayed at the Bakker’s on Friday night before the wedding. […]
Volkswagen Takes Off!
Finally, something that’s up! Volkswagen almost tripled its market capitalization today, closing around 218 on Friday and reaching an intra-day high today above 625! To put that […]
Circuit Breakers Kick In
I meant to put this up last Friday but got a little tied up… Anyway, there’s been a lot of markets halted since this whole […]
Iceland Rescued?
A follow up to the post I put up about Iceland’s woes: Icelandic Freeze Iceland and the International Monetary Fund will probably announce an agreement […]
The New Lense
Sales of stock photos online recently funded the purchase of something I’ve been eyeing off for quite some time: an ultra wide-angle lense. In the […]
Timeline: Global Credit Crunch
An interesting credit crunch timeline from BBC, thanks Ché Garcia (click on the image below for the full article).