Quite A Haul
May 28, 2010When it comes to computer trends, the kids always get there first. From instant messages to Facebook to YouTube to Twitter, my girls (and everyone else’s offspring) were the early adopters, only to have their parents and grandparents eventually follow. Of course, we don’t follow until we figure out what, exactly, you can do with this stuff. Now we know. Facebook is how you find out that the geeky guy …
The Person Behind The Mask
May 27, 2010Jerry Joseph was the star basketball player at Permian High School in Odessa, Texas. He was popular and well-liked by both students and teachers. He took advanced placement classes and excelled in them. All in all, he was the perfect high school student, except that he was actually 22. The person who claimed to be 16-year-old Jerry Joseph was actually a man named Guerdwich Montimer. Montimer had already graduated in …
Jonathan Bergman in HealthNewsDigest.com
May 26, 2010HealthNewsDigest.com, May 26, 2010 Jonathan Bergman advises on ways to improve 401(k) plans while reducing expenses.
Diving Deep Into The Unknown
May 26, 2010As we prepared to hit the water, the dive master told our small group that if we wanted to spot big game like a stingray or a whale shark, we’d probably have to look up, toward the sunlight. Then he led us into the Caribbean off Puerto Rico’s south coast to the La Parguera Wall on my first deep-water dive. The wall is a sharp plunge from about 60 feet …
Buy Me A Spreadsheet, And Cracker Jack
May 25, 2010Memo to the New York Mets front office, from one of your team’s diminishing number of followers: You seem to be running the Mets like an airline. This is not a good idea. Airlines seldom make any money. Also, most of their customers can’t stand them. Citi Field, the beautiful $800 million facility you opened just last year, is like a shiny new terminal. Most everyone who has been there …
Exile On Wall Street
May 24, 2010The Rolling Stones were at the peak of their fame in 1971 as their ninth album, “Sticky Fingers,” topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. But they had problems with their business management and faced massive taxes in the United Kingdom, which had a punitive 93 percent tax rate for high earners at the time. So the band decamped to France. Guitarist Keith Richards and front man Mick …
The TARP Shuffle
May 21, 2010A few weeks ago, General Motors and the U.S. Treasury Department took the dance floor together for a turn at the “TARP money shuffle.” With much fanfare, the automaker’s chief executive officer Ed Whitacre announced that his company had fully repaid the bailout loans it received from the federal government. Five years ahead of schedule, no less. It was great news for GM, which has been struggling to compete with …
David Walters in The Faster Times
May 20, 2010The Faster Times, May 20, 2010David Walters gives advice on how to reach investment goals in order to retire at a younger age.
The Dog That Did Not Bark
May 20, 2010Something pretty significant did not happen yesterday, and because it did not happen, not many people paid attention to it. But it is pretty significant nonetheless. Greece did not default on a public debt of €8 billion that came due yesterday. It had the cash to pay its creditors on time, courtesy of the massive rescue package that its fellow members of the euro zone made available earlier this month. …
Stealing Love Away
May 19, 2010Most people no longer think of their romantic partners as property. But, in a few states, the law has failed to keep up. Seven states (Hawaii, Illinois, North Carolina, Mississippi, New Mexico, South Dakota and Utah) still allow an abandoned spouse to sue his or her partner’s new flame for “alienation of affections.” In an alienation of affections case, one person in a failed marriage alleges that a third party …
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