18 November 2009

Fighting Back Against the ‘Too Big to Fail’ Banks

I’m convinced that the current administration will fail to significantly alter the regulatory framework that governs the investment banking community, as well as the fee based business model practiced by the institutional mega-banks. Regardless of the new regulations that will be drafted, or the old regulations that might be reinstated, …

16 November 2009

Confirmation Bias: Search for Information that You Don’t Want to Hear

I’m a little weird in that I rarely read articles or watch television programs that I fully agree with. I find that it makes me consider an alternative point of view or tweaks my thought process to include new variables into the decision making process that my (occasionally arrogant) analytical …

14 November 2009

The Psychology of Bubbles: Using Hindsight to Examine Why We Bought into the Hype

I’ve been pounding the table pretty hard on investment bubbles lately. Probably because in the last decade, I’ve experienced more popped bubbles than I care to remember.
Or perhaps it’s that I’m constantly amazed by the herding behavior of humans. After all, we’re not that different from the rest of the …

12 November 2009

Controversial Documentary ‘Food, Inc.’ is Now Available Online.

Food, Inc., in my humble opinion, will be one of the most influential documentaries of all time.
Never before (at least to my knowledge) has such a fundamental issue as the food we eat been presented to the general public in such an easily understandable and graphic manner. It is a …

10 November 2009

Traders Know it’s a Gold Bubble, Why Don’t You?

This is how seasoned commodity traders view the current gold bubble. Whoops! I mean gold rush.
Experienced traders know very well that the gold market is teeming with multibillion dollar hedge funds and professional speculators, which means they are after one thing… fast money!

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9 November 2009

How Not to Wage a Public Relations Battle

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You know you’re losing a PR battle when Saturday Night Live calls you out for being a “sack”. Guess that’s what you get when your company, somehow, acquires a healthy supply of Swine Flu vaccines while the immunocompromised segment (e.g. pregnant women, cancer patients, etc.) of the population can’t get …

8 November 2009

Best Reads of the Week: Unemployment Above 10% for First Time Since 1980s Edition

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The last time the unemployment rate was this high, I was seven years old. I don’t remember much about the 15% mortgage rates or people buying gold coins in mass out of fear of inflation, but I do remember the speeches that I heard about the benefits of working for …

6 November 2009

Charles Schwab Might be the Best Choice for Passive Investors

Charles Schwab wants to get into the index fund and ETF business. Badly!
In doing so, Schwab has created a series of funds to undercut the industry leader — Vanguard — by offering the lowest expense ratio ETFs and index funds on the market. With an expense ratio as low as …

4 November 2009

Where have the Pioneers of High Interest Internet Banking Gone?

As a young professional who came of age during the Internet boom, I was among the first wave of consumers to adopt the Internet banking meme. At that time, it was no where near mainstream and was generally considered to be another dot com fad.

Fairly quickly, the Internet banks began …

2 November 2009

How I Find Value Where Others Do Not

Since the recession began, I’ve been struggling with the concept of trading down versus trading down to better value. In other words, should I move to a policy of buying brands/goods that might be cheaper and lower in quality, or stick to brands/goods with a lower price but provide a …

30 October 2009

Restaurant Meals You Can Make at Home For Half the Price

Most SF followers know by now that something of a foodie and a wannabe chef. I’m no where near chef level, but I do occasionally put together something that can draw a crowd.
I also suffer from a slight frugality complex and do what I can to keep my food budget …

29 October 2009

SF Undergoing Site Maintenance

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SF will be undergoing maintenance on October 29th during the evening hours. New theme changes, reorganization, etc.
Pardon the mess and confusion.
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