My 403 (b) plan is now worth less than I’ve put into it.
That is fantastic.
With that on top of Bank of America lying about their loan requirements (they actually require 15% down now rather than the 10% that’s printed on all the ads), the Dow taking its biggest plunge ever, my having to [...]
I got a letter from the CEO of my financial advising firm today and that’s a line from it. Clearly, it’s a letter meant to alleviate some of the fears people are having as they watch their retirement accounts and other investments lose a large part of their value literally overnight.
In the midst of this [...]
There’s a guy I work with whose sentences often begin with the two words “I” and “hate”. We laugh about it, even when he says it’s not true and it totally is. In the midst of the multiple muddles I’m in, I decided to take the chief one by the horns today and make a [...]
I watch kid’s movies. As long as they’re not idiotic or overly simplified, they’re easy to watch and easy to follow for an addled brain and are usually not the fiftieth iteration of the world ending. I’ve been hearing about Spirited Away since it won all those awards a few years ago. I’ve finally seen [...]
The Killers will release a new album in November. That is the best piece of news I’ve heard in a long time. Their first single “Human” is on their website (or any torrent site near you). Listening to it was a bit like coming home again. It reminded me of all the cool stuff I’ve [...]
Thanks to Hulu I was able to see this tonight. Color me impressed. Of course, Blair never would have done it had he still been in office, but it’s still the highlight of the Daily Show’s existence. And the interview was intelligent, articulate, insightful and still humorous. It speaks volumes about the two people in [...]
This is from The Economist.
Over the past few days it’s seemed like the world is ending. It’s gotten so the pertinent finance news has permeated the lounge conversation rather than the inane football-speak by the great unwashed I work with. (Some stupid Giants game was all they talked about Monday rather than the spectacular crash of Lehman Brothers.) It [...]
What does the financial disaster and a band from Downpatrick, Ireland have in common? A small tag line in Ash’s “Clones” is what I hear in my head as one and then another of Wall Street’s biggest firms sink.
As bad as it is for an old firm like Lehman Brothers to go under, the latest [...]
The long-respectable firms of Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers have ceased to be. The WSJ is sporting a coast to coast headline. The Dow is crashing and AIG is looking for capital. Whoever doubted we were in a recession has been roundly silenced. I guess we can only hope this doesn’t slide further into a [...]
Can Sarah Palin be more annoying and abrasive? At least she’s had the decency to stop saying she was against the Bridge to Nowhere.
iTunes U is probably the best innovation Apple Computer has pushed along. For all the annoying aspects of the iPod culture, there is too much that’s too good and too positive to [...]
A rolling stone may gather no moss, but it certainly must be tired when it finally gets to where it’s going. I can’t believe it’s already 2130 and I’ve been up since 0600 on my day off thanks to the friendly neighborhood jackhammer blarney going on just outside my window. I live in a construction [...]