Archive for August, 2010

Author Mike Rough Those of you who keep an eye on things will not be surprised when you hear the following. China is on the verge of financial collapse. I have been following China closely since the Beijing Olympics boldly tried to dispel the world’s notion that it was still an overgrown, backwater, 3rd world [...]

Author Tex Norton Tony just posted a 2-part article entitled “How to Get Rich.” I wrote a comment supporting his recommendations and offering some other ideas for your consideration. One of the recommendations I made was to remain in-control of your investment portfolio. Yes, you can hire advisers but you must remain in-charge overall. Below, [...]

Author Tony De Maio Of course, with a little algebraic manipulation, all of the formulas can be used to find any value if the others are known. If you know the payment and interest, you can find the time of the loan; if you know the final amount and interest, you can determine how much [...]

Author Tony De Maio Some folks consider me rich. I guess I am. I have enough money to allow me to lead my life without working. That doesn’t necessarily mean I have a lot of money, it may just mean I can live cheaply. There are two ways to be “rich”. 1) Have so much [...]

Author Linda Brady Traynham A family joke involved situations where one of us was fed up with an ongoing crisis or frustration. Daddy would droop his eyelids, assume a world-weary look, affect a heavy French accent, and drawl, “Ah, but you ‘ave ze great ennui!” (I would like to tell you that my mother pretended [...]

Author Steve Foste Dangers For Retirement Funds. What to do? What would you do? I throw this out to The Texas Ring, a thinking group of common sense people. Recently Linda has been writing great articles for The Mesh Group at http://www.themeshreport.com/ If you haven’t visited there you are missing out on a lot of [...]

Author Linda Brady Traynham It seems to me that we’re watching a pompous shell game. Put very, very simply, Timmy prints money, or creates it digitally, right? He then auctions it off to foreigners (sometimes) and big banks that don’t have any choice about buying the leftovers. The banks, in turn, lend it back to [...]

Author Tex Norton I freely admit that I have not read the Koran cover-to-cover nor do I consider myself an expert on Islam. I do contend that I have read extensively about Islam and, apparently, read far more than most of the apologists who now seem to dominate the MSM articles and op-ed pages. We [...]

Author Tex Norton Simon Schama is as clueless as is Barack Obama regarding Schama’s FT article entitled Obama’s brave remarks reveal a true patriot (FT 8/16/10). Apparently neither Schama nor Obama understand the ETHOS of being American. It has absolutely nothing to do with religious intolerance as he tries to argue. It has everything to [...]

Author James The Wanderer He was standing there at the side entrance to the Whole Foods strip shopping center, three blocks or so from my house. He had the typical cardboard hand-lettered “Homeless – will work for food, money, housing……” sign to hold up to the passing traffic. He was a bit older than usual, [...]