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  • My acumen in predicting the movement of the stock market is unparalleled. Unparalleled, I say! Last week I scored a second victory in my work group's game of picking the Dow Jones' weekly close. Another free lunch for…

  • Hard to believe, but I'm actually getting bored with this site. It's kinda lame how there are just a couple other people I know who update anymore. What made it fun was all the back-and-forth. Of course, maybe if I po…

  • Taxes = done. Last year I got crushed due to a bonus from work. This year, turns out being unemployed for a few months means you don't have to pay much tax. I'm getting almost $6000 back. Party? Obligatory comment t…

  • Thanks to Kansas beating Memphis, I placed 2nd in my work brackets. This is the first time I've ever won any money with NCAA brackets. Of course, I didn't really win anything. First place got $150. I got my $10 back.…

  • What do you get when you take the ethics and accounting practices of Enron and add the belief that house prices always go up? This brilliant slide show about subprime mortgages. A lawmaker in Kentucky (not that Tim Cou…

  • The Strib has an interesting story about small scale wind turbines that people are putting up on rural property. Unlike the big 3-megawatt turbines on commercial wind farms, these are generally around 20 kilowatts, enou…

  • The price of chicken in Zimbabwe has inflated 236,000%! $0.60 USD = 3 million Zimbabwe dollars.Last night I had a scary thought...I actually smiled to myself when I realized that today was jeans day at work. If I'm not…

  • A futures trader from Societe Generale is not impressed with losing a mere $1.38 billion. You gotta lose $7.14 billion to grab headlines these days.***Stimulus stimulus stimulus! Blah blah blah. Whatever fiscal policy…

  • After a couple weeks of nibbling around the edges in my work group's virtual stock exchange game I decided to go big or go home. Well, I'll be going home. Yesterday, ABK was down about 30% in the early afternoon, so I …

  • As if my 14 (!) years of participation in drum corps didn't sufficiently establish my nerd cred, check out the book that I'm currently reading: A Concise Economic History of the World. I take a back seat to no one when …

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