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I Really Liked WordPerfect When It Was Viable…
but, I really regret using it to write the FastDraft for Power Users book in 2003.
Why? Because, now I am trying to push it up to the Field Guide for Investors for the members there who use FastDraft. It is not an easy process. I had to reinstall WordPerfect 11 which I used to use [...]
Oh? Really?
“I’ll tell you my impression. We really in this last election, when I say we … the Democrats … that if we won the Congressional elections we could stop the war. Now anybody was a good student of government would know that wasn’t true. But you know … the temptation to [...]
Is It REALLY, FINALLY Over?
More than a month ago, Microsoft said they were withdrawing from their bid to buy Yahoo. At that time, I made some predictions of the fallout. Then both Microsoft and Yahoo said they were still “talking” and Carl Ichan stepped in and said he intended to initiate a proxy fight for the board of directors [...]
“Presence” In A State
Traditionally, if you had a physical location or employees in a state your company was considered to have a presence in that state. That made your company subject to taxation and other things in that state as a foreign corporation.
I said traditionally, because as states start to struggle under shrinking revenues they are looking for [...]
The Number One Financial Mistake
Surprisingly, it isn’t buying at the top of a market. It isn’t even buying the wrong stocks or bonds or even the wrong real estate.
Nope, the number one mistake far too many make is not getting one of these…
If you get one of these maybe you won’t wait too long to get started.
Is Climate Change Real?
Undoubtedly, it is!
The fossil record proves it has happened many times over the 5.5 billions years of the Earth’s history. There have been ice ages with most of the North American continent covered under ice hundreds of feet deep. There have been warmer periods with places like Greenland totally ice free!
There is no debate, the [...]
Yes, But, That’s Just Not Me.
I had an interesting phone call a couple of weeks ago with someone wanting to “collaborate”. During the conversation she said, “You have to offer the whole package. Think of it as a soup to nuts business school. You could charge $50-75,000 or more if you segmented it right and it was spread over [...]
More Government School Idiocy
This time in Maryland…
http://www.examiner.com/a-1429570~Council__Mongtomery_schools_cave_to_pressue_with_Islam_book.html
Good News in the Unemployment Numbers
Everyone is gnashing their teeth this morning because the unemployment rate jumped to 5.5%. But, they seem to be ignoring the other numbers. Yes, there was a shrinkage in non-farm payrolls. In May the job rolls shrank by 49,000 jobs.
BUT…
The expectation was a reduction of 60,000 jobs and the unemployment rate would be 5.1%
We had [...]
Sorry, It’s not THAT Much a Buyers’ Market
This morning I get an email from one of our people in the field trying to sell a home we have had in our inventory for a while. They wanted to know how to get in contact with former renters to get copies of the utility bills.
Huh? Are you nuts?
They said in the email they [...]
