I have a temp job available. Put an ad on Craigslist. One fine young millennial who responded wanted to meet me on Friday. For your enjoyment, here is our email correspondence- without the "Hello"s and "Bye"s ( Read more... )

I know it's true because I am as busy as a one armed paper-hanger ( Read more... )

Usually I stay at home on Black Friday, no matter what the specials are it is just not worth it to fight the crowds.

Today I had to do a couple chores and I had noticed that Staples' Black Friday ad included an Acer 23" widescreen LCD monitor for $140. I drove past the Walmart and the parking lot was full. I drove past the big mall and it looked ( Read more... )

As a public service I syndicated The Daily Reckoning which is a great source of insight into the crazy hybrid capitalist/government system the world is now running under.

I encourage you to start following it- this is what got me started in gold and silver investing 9 years ago.

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I remember several years ago how the financial reporters were praising the trend of outsourcing- the notion that someone in India or the Philippines could do the back office or accounting work as part of a worldwide team ( Read more... )

California nears financial "meltdown" as revenues tumble

What isn't so funny is that too many in the administration think using your tax dollars to rescue California is a wise course of action.

I read a teaser- "Nobel-prize winning economist predicts US recession will be over soon" and thought- Fantastic.

Then I went and read the actual article.

Paul Krugman. He is always right! Might be a good contrarian indicator- lets bookmark this prediction and see if people are reduced to eating pet food by this time next year, or if this esteemed ( Read more... )

WTF is with all the reporters, pundits and politicians? AIG was contractually obligated to pay out bonuses. So fucking what if that is upsetting to some people? THE FEDS GAVE THE MONEY WITH ENOUGH STRINGS ATTACHED, why are they getting upset about financial obligations that neither they, nor AIG, could change ( Read more... )

Maybe some don't know who Peter Schiff is, but let's just say he has been calling the top in the US Socialist monetary policy experiment for over 2 years now. Where he was being laughed at and denigrated as a nutjob earlier, now a lot of people have finally admitted that he was right. So he is also reaping the rewards of being proven correct, with ( Read more... )

I know, pure populist bullshit, but really? You want salary caps for bank executives ( Read more... )