Wealth vs. income

by | 19 12 2008 | Blog

OK, I thought I was done for the weekend, but each day for the last week as I log into my personal e-mail account there is a jackass story on MSN that I just have to comment on. The story is entitled, “Does $250,000 a year make you wealthy?” If you follow...

gObama, round II

by | 19 12 2008 | Blog

Yesterday President-elect Barack Obama formally announced his plans to overhaul the regulatory structure of the financial industry: “…what I said during the campaign, I meant. We are going to have to greatly strengthen our regulatory apparatus.”...

Update from the bottom

by | 16 12 2008 | Blog

You probably saw the stock market rally again today, yes? While it seems as if there is still likely to be bad economic news on the horizon, it seems as if the majority of that bad news has been baked into the financial markets. So I wanted to update you on my having...

Dividends, part III

by | 16 12 2008 | Best of the Blog, Blog

I don’t know where you are while you are reading Our Little Corner of the Internet, but the weather outside is frightful here in Santa Fe…brrrr…and there is lots of snow…and since we’ve no place to go…then let the Blog flow! OK, so...

Dividends, part II

by | 15 12 2008 | Best of the Blog, Blog

I apologize to those of you who were expecting part II of the dividends post on Friday and it was not forthcoming. I ended up not having Internet access on Friday. So without further adieu…part deux. So now you know that dividends are definitively a good thing,...