Nov

12

The Three Holy Grails

November 12, 2008 | Comments Off

For many years we had three goals, as a society:

Maximum Home Ownership
Minimum Unemployment
Maximum Citizen Participation in Equity Markets (Stocks)

In a way, we are being victims of pursuing these three.  These three are killing us.

Maximum Home Ownership – A house makes people more responsible – when they own something they take care of it.  Problem is, [...]

Nov

12

Government Changes Any Plan … for the Worse?

November 12, 2008 | Comments Off

Treasury Secretary Paulson dropped a bombshell today:  Those two painful, market bruising weeks of heated debate in Congress about a month ago about the $700 Billion Bailout program are gone to waste:  the plan has been dramatically modified to the point its name doesn’t even describe what the plan will do.  The Trouble Assett program [...]

Nov

7

Don’t Do It! (Time Management)

November 7, 2008 | 1 Comment

Often I get asked how I get so many things done in the day/week/month/year. One way of answering that question is: By not doing things!
The Infinite List
First problem we all have: We have many more things on our list of things to do than we could possibly do ever. If we start keeping a simple [...]

Nov

7

The Unemployment Dilema

November 7, 2008 | Comments Off

Unemployment levels are expected to reach 7 or 8% in 2009.  Those rates are disastrous in my opinion:  worse than I have seen in the US in all the time I have been following the unemployment levels.  Close to those of development countries.  Yet, CNNfn.com reports that there is an expected 3% salary increase coming [...]

Nov

5

The New Divisive Line $250,000

November 5, 2008 | Comments Off

The recent election says something to me:  if you earn more than $250,000 you are “rich” and you must pay for it.  Some “rich” people would do it happily.  Some would not do it happily but will have no choice in the matter.  The question is why and how did this happened?
First of all, I [...]