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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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Friday, July 18, 2008 Leading stats showing we're in a recession. Cash is king. Pressure by ARPS holders is working: regulators invade Wachovia. As the price of grain rises, catfish farms dry up. Chronic Lyme Disease is devastating. Psst. Want a gun business? The gas crisis. The outsourced call center.
Thursday, July 17, 2008 The Big Search for a short-term place to put money. Harry's Mattress Bank. The economy is brimming with entrepreneurial opportunities. Politician ordered to anger counseling. My new yacht, I wish. The gas crisis.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 Fears of money in banks. Harry's Mattress Bank. Fears of money in brokerage accounts. SIPC, excess SIPC and CAPCO (the Customer Asset Protection Company). Will Lehman go private? UBS announces ARPS buyback. Two stories on the disasters facing us. The cat's away. Identity crisis.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 Pick the next bank to fail. IndyMac Bank fails and its consequences. Can you trust any bank or money market fund? The rabbi who's leaving the congregation..
Monday, July 14, 2008 We are in our worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. As an investor your strategy is sixfold.
Friday, July 11, 2008 Lehman Brothers down again. General Electric is a finance stocks. Two unhappy campers. Three favorite stocks -- PCU, FRO and BPT. How Apple will eat Verizon's lunch. "My hard drive failed." "I love Gmail." Another nag about Lyme Disease. The back seat champion.
Thursday, July 10, 2008 Financials. Ultrashort SKF. Life lessons from tennis. Can you believe the press or the Internet? Escaping the grip of foreign oil. Siphoning GM's future. Two softwares -- Stickies and Lookeen. The dubious joys of flying.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 Skills for your your kids. No to Ethanol. Golf carts as a growth business. The Linksys WRT54G2 Wireless-G Broadband Router. Best free podcasts.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 Finance losses to be $1.6 trillion. So far only $400 billion. All my inheritances from Nigeria. Robert Mugabe's house. Switzerland's FoxTown.
Monday, July 7, 2008 Why are oil prices rising? Jim Kingsdale's views. Tsunami investing.
Thursday, July 3, 2008 Celebrating July 4. America needs infrastructure. Cockroach auction rate securities scandal. UBS and Lehman are the worst cockroaches. The wisdom of age.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 Switching to short selling. FDIC advertises. Health, Life, Writing, and Computer Secrets. Wimbledon. Son-in-laws, whom we love.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Favorite short. Unfavorite financials. How deep is the financial crisis? Anne Himpens strikes again. The 9th Jewish Film Festival. Wimbledon.

Monday, June 30, 2008 Window dressing. The BIG (contrary) theory. You must read Subprime Fiasco Exposes Manipulation by Mortgage Brokerages. Manure thief falls into dung. Wimbledon.
Friday, June 27, 2008 The second worst June ever. My threefold fears -- wealth destruction, banking system collapse, and inflation. Will UBS survive? Intel opts for Windows XP. Supreme Court affirms handgun ownership. Three delicious family jokes.
Thursday, June 26, 2008 The upcoming bear market rally. Sticking the bull. The 200-2002 bear market. Charts: China imports and oil prices. US House prices. Citigroup. GM. Boeing. Warren Buffett is concerned about stagflation. Take cash when gassing up. George Carlin on HBO. Wimbledon Tennis. Two bad Jewish jokes.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 Banks and their foreclosed properties. Pesky little creatures these cockroaches. A Bonfire returns as heartburn; Tom Wolfe visits the New York Stock Exchange. Latest dumb Microsoft decision. How to reduce gas prices. The second best Excel keyboard shortcut -- Ctrl 1. Wimbledon continues today.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 Gruesome summer. Financials and autos fall. Serious warnings. Market weakness evident in advances and declines. "The IRS is so stupid." The best Excel keyboard shortcut tip -- F4. Water on Mars. Financials. The farmer and his government agent.
Monday, June 23, 2008 The next boom will be alternative energy. Congress delays alternative energy Act. The Economist's Energy special report. Watch your summer travel. Marriage saver; The Sennheiser RS 110 wireless headphones -- marriage savers. The tick season is on us.
Friday, June 20, 2008 RBS issues global stock and credit crash alert. How much is your investment worth? Switching to a Mac. A smuggler's dream. Bumper stickers. Upload Firefox 3.0. Who's got talent?
Thursday, June 19, 2008 Gruesome financials. Successful risk management. Oil prices charted. Last few days for Windows XP. summer.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 Gruesome summer. Shorting financials. Huge writedowns coming. Firefox 3.0. Skype 4.0. IcyHot. How to say NO. How stupid we all area. How to use your stock screener. My favorite puns.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 Something big not disclosed at Lehman Brothers. Are the Saudis trying to bring down the price of oil? The 2008 Darwin Awards, maybe.
Monday, June 16, 2008 Wall Street is a product machine -- implications. The Trillion Dollar Meltdown. Catching falling knives is very dangerous. Lehman Brothers has the Reverse Midas Touch. Why we love artist Tom Otterness. Breast exam - Part 1 and 2.
Friday, June 13, 2008 Lehman is the classic Cockroach stock. This market is not for longs. Be wary of online brokers and low-priced stocks. Geothermal looks interesting. Do hybrid cars make sense? The Drunkard's Walk. Brijit fails to raise money. How photoshopping works on social networks. The itch. Thoughts for the weekend.
Thursday, June 12, 2008 Cockroach financials. Lehman's Australian disaster. Citigroup's new fund blows up: New CEO receives huge reward for incompetence, except at feathering his own nest. FCC aide makes the stupidest investment decision ever -- lessons for all. Right of first refusal is a very dumb idea. Promises, promises.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 Why Lehman lost much money. Australia is booming. The skinniest legs and the shortest pants. More sad calls on Auction Rate Preferreds. Save big on energy: insulate your home better. Best birthday card.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Opportunities in our Moment of Pain -- part 2. Goldspring. UBS selectively lied. How to shoot yourself in the foot. How I saved a young kid from Lyme Disease. Why would anyone give Lehman Brothers any money? Red tails in love: the wonderful red-tailed hawks in New York's Central Park. Understanding engineers.
Monday, June 9, 2008 Opportunities in our Moment of Pain -- part 1. You may be Taliban... if. The story of the black man and the alligator.
Friday, June 6, 2008 Will this election matter to the markets? Favorite solar stocks. Favorite pick and shovel (BUCY). Finally real estate is becoming reasonable. Why you need network backup/diversity also. June 30 is the last day to buy Windows XP. Lookeen makes the most sense. Denmark is running a Miss Headscarf contest. Stuff I don't make up -- from Zimbabwe to 26 toilets in Greenwich.
Thursday, June 5, 2008 Lehman Brothers. George Soros' new book. How he invests. His analysis of what went wrong and where things are going. Back up your files when you travel. The French Open continues.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 Lehman Brothers is seeking overseas capital. Lehman battles an insurgent investor. The future is now, according to Ray Kurzweil. How to buy prescription drugs. Amazon charges NY sales tax. New airline fare surcharges.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 Contrary indicators: oil price to fall. Photovoltaics stock recommendations. The Law of Unintended Consequences: popcorn rises in price. Adobe's new web word processor, Buzzword. Amazon collects sales tax. The French Open.
Monday, June 2, 2008 How goes the economy? Hay fever in the northeast. Have your children and grandchildren watch this video.
Friday, May 30, 2008 How Lehman Brothers cooks its books. The costly arbitration for ARPS. TiVo software improves. Why oil will rise faster -- how dumb we are. Manufacturing a food crisis. Solves Windows problems with Windows Sysinternals. Xobni plug-in for Outlook. Bad good lawyer jokes.
Thursday, May 29, 2008 When you can't control the outcome, diversification is the only control. When life at the top is enough of a life.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 Reasons the economy will be dampened. Strategies include When in doubt, stay out; When losing, get out fast, Cash is king and a cash equivalent is not cash. Have your kids watch this video from Simon Peres. All my friends are obsessed with Libor. Angry shareholders say Société Générale ran like a casino. Why Mitt Romney dropped out of the presidential race.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 Various acronyms that got Wall Street into trouble -- from CDS to CMO to SIV. Put your money into index funds? Good news for commercial real estate. Sell short the brokers' recommendations.
Monday, May 26, 2008 Areas of opportunity MIT likes. Mexican oysters.
Friday, May 23, 2008 Go for index funds. Go play tennis? Krupansky's latest wisdom: what to do about Wall Street-created products. Apple's new convert. Please don't install SP3 on your Windows XP machine. Oil's lofty price. My recent favorite photograph. A test of your intelligence: TicTac Toe.
Thursday, May 22, 2008 Ultra-bad behavior from Wall Street. When your hard drive starts making funny noises. How long will I live? Recent favorite cartoons.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 Lumber Liquidators versus Capital One. Two unfavorite financials -- UBS and Bank of America. HeartWare goes on trading hold. Broker recommendations: Sell them. The Spitzer obsession. .
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 Cash is king. Cash's continuum. Overarching lesson. Don't trust anyone, especially Wall Street's created products. Iraq could have the largest oil reserves in the world. More Sunday school.
Monday, May 19, 2008 Vanguard funds. Depressing future for banking from Economist. Which type of indexing? Please don't chase yields. Chase safety. Sunday school.
Friday, May 16, 2008 HeartWare. The American Life explanation of mortgage-driven credit crisis. Michael Greenberg on "Our Confusing Economy explained." Oil's murky outlook. The Top 10 Tech Trends. More reasons not to install Vista. All about marriage.
Thursday, May 15, 2008 Things have changed fundamentally. Staying alive. Wall Street at less than its finest. Selling First Solar short. No reason not to back up your hard drive. Canadian humor. Redneck sensitivity.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Sell First Solar. Sell in May and go away? Starting your own business. The New Century play. LivingXL catalog. Boys will be boys. Israel turns 60. Grandma's birth control pills.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 HP is buying EDS. Yuch. RIMM booms. I eat crow. GodTube.com. How to back up your computer files. Wal-Mart booms. The Millau Viaduct. Fox News and the worst racist slur. Are you a real cowboy? The mental hospital.
Monday, May 12, 2008 The Oil Bubble. Nasdaq vs Oil vs Homebuilders. Bicycle for high oil prices. How to get a job. Why do drugs (especially Prilosec) cost so much? What makes up inflation? Two easy lessons from a failed hedge fund. Only in Australia. Michelangelo's David goes home. Why did the chicken cost the road?
Friday, May 9, 2008 Short my aspiring brokers' recommendations. Oil escalates. Fred Hickey's latest newsletter. Check Outlook's junk mailbox. Costco can be cheap to buy drugs. Credit Default Swaps hurt A.I.G. Stay away from Windows XP SP3. FAvorite old fart bumper stickers.
Thursday, May 8, 2008 A guaranteed sure-fire way to lose money; Accept brokers' recommendations. Google alerts, a useful investment tool. If it works, don't mess with it. South Pacific, the musical, is worth seeing. The latest on ARPS. Why I'm obsessed with Lyme Disease. New rules from Bill Maher.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 How housing prices are falling in the west. How assumptions can go awry. Sometimes I get great email. Ask for references. Vista still sucks. Last piece on Lyme Disease. Not a good idea to cheat on your wife. A certain impeccable logic.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 Oil hit $100. Now it's going to $200: Five reasons. How to play rising oil's prices. Jim Kingsdale's Oil Surprise Party: Who was there. If UBS cant manage its own business, how can you trust it to manage yours? Don't buy a computer with Windows Vista. Should I buy an expensive SLR digital camera? More on Lyme Disease. The difference between men and women.
Monday, May 5, 2008Buffet is more optimistic about the market. What's an investor to do after a star firm stumbles? Lesson Microsoft/Yahoo mess. The death of print media. Network Solutions and my web site. Lyme Disease -- Part 2. Would you give up sex? For what? Statistics.
Friday, May 2, 2008 No more doom and gloom? The VIX is low. Guess what it means? Wall Street sees signs of sunshine. Disaster with mold. What does it take to give up sex? The idiocy that was the housing mess. Lyme Disease -- Part 1. Yes. Go Amazon! $50 is $50.
Thursday, May 1, 2008 George Carlin. Sudden Divorce Syndrome. More housing bust. iPhone to drop in price. Visa and MasterCard to drop? How to prevent diabetes. Network Solutions screwed up. Put an emergency number on your cell phone. Favorite recent New Yorker cartoons.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Network Solutions screwed up. Basically no site today.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 How Ed took off two years. The first Cockroach Recession. The Next Bubble. How to get your busted Apple stuff fixed -- iFixit.com. Pest Control.
Monday, April 28, 2008 Trends, explosions, bubbles and Tsunamis. The genetically modified food business. The biggies are MON and SYT. Herb Greenberg's insightful parting advice. Lessons from weekend reading. He's seen it all and he's worried -- Peter Bernstein, 89. Checklists make sense. How to forward a Verizon cell phone.
Friday, April 25, 2008 Living my life through my kids. Bonds are safe? Tsunami Investing. Californians are not to be outdone. Something to look forward to.
Thursday, April 24, 2008 What should I do with cash? The issue is no longer yield. It's safety of principal. What if your broker goes belly up? The PC revolution has gone too far -- Today in Insult Day.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 Continuing loves -- First Solar, silve (SLV) and gold (GLD). Vanguard Funds are also doing well. Trying to sell me on your new startup? Here's how. The GPS Snitch lets you track cars and people. Why I love English -- the new edition of Newton's Telecom Dictionary.Live and Cheese. The Batman sex outfit. Stress relief with bubblewrap.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 Foreigners buy cheap American stocks! Which ones make sense? Anatomy of a Financial Collapse. How to load a new laptop. BusinessWeek's tools for investors. Great progress in biotechnology.
Monday, April 21, 2008 Risk management stinks. Reading. Credit-default swaps. What Warren thinks. Australian mining stocks. A persuasive message. Impeccable logic. The priest and the rabbi.
Friday, April 18, 2008 Soros Says Commodity 'Bubble Still in Growth Phase.' Apple versus RIMM. iFund. Apple's iPhone SDK kit. Goldspring spec of the day. Passover stories.
Thursday, April 17, 2008 Big bets versus diversification -- sundry investment philosophies. Magazine covers are contrarian. Jack Welch unfairly criticized his successor. Customer service at its finest. My new Lenovo X61 ThinkPad.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 What if you’d had $100,000 to spend in 1998? What would have been your best investment? Harry's latest useful tips -- laser printers, aluminum, email attachments, USB flash drives, cheap waterproof and wine. Iceland's deep freeze. Red neck swing. Different ways of looking at things.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 Cash is king. The Kanzius machine -- a cancer cure? June marks the end of Windows XP. My new Lenovo X61 ThinkPad. Much cheaper on the Internet. Useful household tips. The deer story.
Monday, April 14, 2008 Is blood flowing in the streets? The Economist's "America's economy is in recession. Don't expect a quick recovery." Chase your customers and potential customers. Paying your April 15 tax bill. Cash king. Where is your cash? The best BlueTooth cellphone headset is now cheaper.
Friday, April 11, 2008 GE reports lousy results. Market is weak. Cash is king. Sell Motorola short. The Bear Stearns lesson. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Keys to search engines. Airlines are a lousy business. BlackBerry 8830 joy. ARPS site updated. China moves Olympics to an undisclosed location. Differences between grandfathers and grandmothers.
Thursday, April 10, 2008 The worst part is what the Credit Crunch is doing to the economy. Look the Gross Leverage Ratios of major investment banking firms. Death of a bond insurer -- ACA. The ARPS disaster, a personal heartbreaking story. How to download a YouTube video.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008 The Next President's First Task. Petraeus urges halt in weighing new cut in force. Our wonderful cleaning lady. Why does this photo so amuse me?
Tuesday April 8, 2008 Earnings season looks gruesome. Wonderful new font -- Amazone BT. Watch your time. What's a sonofabitch?
Monday April 7, 2008 Alternative energy is the next bubble. Here are its stocks. John Doerr also on alternative energy. The lawyers and failed auctions. Two sick cartoons. How the new marketing works.
Friday April 4, 2008 Winnie and Nuveen. Stalking for distress -- New Rules. The alternative energy bubble inflates. Finding a restaurant. The Sony Ericsson Open Tennis in Miami TV schedule. Recent favorite New Yorker cartoons. Useful Wall Street definitions.
Thursday, April 3, 2008 Silver and gold, again. Goldman Sachs looks at alternative energy. Running a business? Strategies. Today's Nuveen conference call. Can you believe anything you read? Useful health tips from Men's Health magazine. Wonderful New Yorker cartoons. The Murphy twins again.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008 Silver and gold are rebounding. New Investment Rules. The perfect (cheap) headphones. Thoughts for a new quarter.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008 The best April Fool jokes. n case you thought financials were "cheap," they're not. Bloomberg story, "Banks Face Biggest Crisis in 30 Years." March in the stockmarket. UBS is one dumb company. Best Geek April Fools jokes, from Wired Magazine.

Monday, March 31, 2008 "Don't fight the Fed." Some tentative ideas. The two critical parts of the Bear Stearns bailout. ARPS fallout is broad. Explaining what the Fed is doing -- Bleakonomics. The frog -- part 1 and part 2.
Friday, March 28, 2008 Hedge fund's big loss for March. Why the economy is deteriorating. Make your bucket list. My friend Gerry's bucket lists; favorite places he's visited and places he wants to visit. Eliot Spitzer 1 and 2.
Thursday, March 27, 2008 AuctionRatePreferreds.org set up. Newton's Rule of Unintended Gotchas. James Surowiecki on Too Dumb to Fail. The life and death of the American newspaper. The latest pitch in panhandling.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 Why don't the brokers redeem their clients' ARPs? Never do business again with Nuveen. Class action suits filed against Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch, et al. FSI's earnings conference call. Jane Bryant Quinn on Bloomberg. Gabelli announces it will redeem its auction rate preferreds. This prank took 207 people. How we came about -- creationism versus monkeys.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 The economy is spiraling down. John Cassidy's The Economy of Fear. Collapsed capital markets bode ill for redeeming failed ARPs. 12b-1 fees are paid on failed auction rate securities. Land in Arizona plummets. Wondering where all our Iraqi reconstruction went? Better than ARPs.
Monday, March 24, 2008 Auction Rates tie up more money ($360 billion) than the Bush stimulus package ($117 billion). SEC establishes an ARS injury hot email line. Another class action suit filed. Seattle Times writes about ARPs. One in five Silicon Valley companies stuck with ARPs. Calamos holds touchy-feely conference calls, says nothing. Personal emails from fellow sufferers. How Goldman and Citi screw New York State. Subprime mortgages explained on video.
Friday, March 21, 2008 Good Friday. Exchanges closed. More Auction Rate Securities updates. Silicon Valley has money in ARPs. Calamos has a stacked phone call on ARPs. Pacific Life Open Tennis.
Thursday, March 20, 2008 Silver and gold drop. Time to get out. NYTimes piece: Commodities: Latest Boom; Plentiful Risk. Auction Rate Securities (update): Class action suits against Wachovia and TD Ameritrade. Pressure to change closed-end funds into open-ends funds. Calamos issues touchy-feely statement. Bulldog Investors says don't favor preferred holders. Tennis TV schedule. The request.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 You have to wonder where Wall Street's head is at, when dealing with ARPs. Five benefits in brokers and banks redeeming the ARPs they sold their unsuspecting clients. ASTAR Air Cargo Alleges Merrill Lynch Fraud; Files Complaint Regarding Auction Rate Securities. Cohen & Steers issues touchy-feely statement. How class action suits work. Visa IPO is not for you or me. Don't catch a falling knife. Tennis TV schedule. Watch carefully.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 The Feds bailed out Bear Stearns, but ignore ARPs. ExpressJet has $65 million of ARPs. BlackRock issues touchy-feely statement. Class action suit filed against Deutsche Bank. Financial Week writes story: ARS MESS. Closed-ends fail to shut floodgates. Multibillion-dollar bailout effort by five fund firms aids just one-tenth of auction-rate preferred market. SEC Staff Acts to Thaw Frozen Auction-Rate Securities Market. Tennis TV Schedule. The apocryphal wedding.
Monday, March 17, 2008 Wall Street is in meltdown. My advice remains the same: No borrowing; Utmost cash. Gold , silver, base metals and commodities make sense. Be wary about catching falling knives. Overseas currencies continue to make sense -- the Euro, the loonie (the Canadian dollar) and the Aussie dollar are best. Stocks and trusts paying high dividends are the safest. Stay away from financials, Watch your job and your business. When in doubt, stay out. The Feds save Bear Stearns. Tennis TV schedule.
Friday, March 14, 2008 Finding ARPs attractive. Economy in recession. The cockroach credit crunch. Auction Rate Preferreds update. Our ex-Governor Spitzer provides endless amusement. TV tennis schedule for the Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells. Smart Ass answers.
Thursday, March 13, 2008 SEC May Let Borrowers Bid on Auction-Rate Securities. Blog on ARPs. ING funds to redeem $240 million of auction rate preferred shares (ARPs). Van Kampen holds ARPs conference call. The Wall Street Journal writes a story: Credit Crunch Hits Madison Dearborn;
Nuveen Funds Forced To Refinance Securities. Gabelli to redeem ARPs. Implications from all this. Nine words the ladies use.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 Nuveen talks about redeeming its ARPs. Big bounce in stockmarkets. Port Elizabeth shipping tycoons caught in financial storm -- $286 million stuck in ARPs. Donald Coxe posits 11 point guidance for investors going forward. Time to retire to Alaska?
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 Eaton Vance redeems some of its auction rate preferreds. Six action points for investors resulting from the ARPs mess. The Impending Economic Chastisement. The lesson from Citigroup in not catching a falling knife. The Jawbone BlueTooth headset is superb. Man's best friend. Three old guys.
Monday, March 10, 2008 Six important developments in ARPs: Personal anguish; Aberdeen announces it's redeeming its ARPs. Gretchen Morgenson writes As Good as Cash, Until It’s Not. Heartbreaking stories from ARPs holders. Paul Krugman's The Face-Slap Theory. Failed auctions reading. People to write to you and to express your anger. Irish entrance exam. Tille, Maude and Gertrude.
Friday, March 7, 2008 The dam breaks: Aberdeen Fund to Redeem Auction Rate Securities. Serious Hunker Down Time. Cash is King. Apple iPhone does Exchange Server. Bullish for Apple; bearish for Research in Motion. The latest on Auction Rate Preferreds, including readings and people to write to and express your anger. How Fidelity was bribed for business -- a truly shameful Wall Street story. The wonderful pirate joke.
Thursday, March 6, 2008 Gold, Silver and Goldspring. Failed Auctions. Auction Rate Securities -- the legal case against your broker, and the issuer. Money-market funds are emerging as a potential white knight for some troubled auction-rate securities. Potentially V's realistically. Why Mexico won't be participating in the summer Olympics.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 Stephen Roach's Double Bubble Trouble. Eaton Vance speaks the same unhelpful nonsense on ARPS. Auction-Rate Bond Failures Approach 70%, Show No Sign of Easing. The Jews and $100 a barrel oil. Jewish Arithmetic. Jewish nuclear devastation. Jewish orgasms.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 Readers talk about their pain in owning Auction Rate Preferreds. Newton's six-part Maximum Research, Maximum Noise, Maximum Pressure Strategy. Be wary of broker loans on ARPs. Australian interest rates rise. Clever funny definitions.
Monday, March 3, 2008 Muni yields take off for the sky. Warren Buffett's annual report. Very sick cartoon on housing mortgages. Investors pay too much to have their money managed. Great financial quote. Unintended consequences in Iraq. A man applies for a job at the Post Office. Amazingly simple home remedies.

Friday, February 29, 2008 What's the worst thing that can go wrong? Sub-prime explained. All about Auction Rate Preferreds. ARPS.
Thursday, February 28, 2008 All about Auction Rate Preferreds. ARPS.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 All about Auction Rate Preferreds. ARPS. What's happened. Nuveen conference call last night. Risk of a "safe" investment are found out the hard way. Bernanke's 'Brilliant' Fed Vision Evokes Investors' Frustration.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 Auction Rate Preferreds. ARPS. Nuveen conference call and replay information. Eaton Vance's words of comfort. Auction Rate Securities and Liquidity -- from Aventine Renewable Energy's recent quarterly report.
Monday, February 25, 2008 Auction Rate Preferreds. ARPS. Elements of The Non-Vanishing Cream Strategy. No quick fix from Eaton Vance. The bond insurers -- MBIA, Ambac, etc. are bankrupt. Would you buy a bridge from Warren Buffett? The famed investor is getting into municipal bond insurance. Too bad the industry is a racket.
Friday, February 22, 2008 Mattress Cash -- the search for ultra-safety. Gold and Silver going up. Citigroup and XLF (the financial SPDR) going down. A professional manager's comments. Update on failed Auction Rate Securities (ARPS).
Thursday, February 21, 2008 Why Nuveen, Blackrock, Cohen and Steers, Eaton Vance, Evergreen, Allianz Global, John Hancock Advisors, MFS, Van Kampen, Pimco, Gabelli and Calamos are collectively committing suicide. I don't like money market funds. Save. Save. Save.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 All about failed auctions of municipal auction rate securities and their risks. Getting out of risky money market funds.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 Mattress Money defined. Questions to ask when checking our portfolio. Questioning assumptions. Kosovo goes independent. Two movies worth seeing -- Juno and Eastern Promises.
Monday, February 18, 2008 Presidents Day. Ask yourself four questions:1. How will the accelerating financial crisis hurt what I presently own? 2. Do I really know what this is? 3. Do you own money market funds? 4. Question the assumption behind everything you own.
Friday, February 15, 2008 Pounding the table for alternative energy (?). First Solar. Harper's Magazine on the Next Bubble (alternative energy). A list of all the alternative energy companies. The most outspoken analyst on Wall Street -- not positive on financials.
Thursday, February 14, 2008 Auction rate preferreds. ARPS. How Bristol Myers lost $400 million on auction rate securities. All the companies who issued ARPS.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 Weakness in markets and AIG. The two short-term paper auctions that failed. Wall Street Shareholders Suffer Losses Partners Never Imagined. A glimmer of hope out west -- selling townhouses by dropping prices by 20%.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 Much worse than anyone imagined. AIG announces more losses. The Rising Risk of a Systemic Financial Meltdown:
The Twelve Steps to Financial Disaster by Nouriel Roubini via John Mauldin. First Thirty Days. Latest greatest gadget -- a plug-in giggler from Cyberguys.
Monday, February 11, 2008 Taking back real estate in California. Suburban real estate -- The Next Slum? Problems with ARMs. From Japan’s Slump in 1990s, Lessons for the U.S.
Friday, February 8, 2008 About to lose 100% of our money. Three factors become super important. Worthless charities. Poetic justice for dumb bankers -- Buffett. The U.S. is searching cellphones and laptops. Bigamy has its rewards in England. The dentist, again.
Thursday, February 7, 2008 The helplessness. Buying cheap -- if you can. Great vacations in Florida. Free money for going on an interview. Good time to go shopping, now. Australian "Culture."
Wednesday, February 6, 2008 How difficult is this market? A hedge fund manager reports. The financial crisis explained in simple English by James Surowiecki. How Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! stacks -- badly. When your cordless says "move closer." 10 great free downloads for your network -- home or office. Weight loss cartoon. Favorite spending of money -- sex changes operations in Iran. Stupid old person jokes.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008 New York Times, Apple, Garmin and the Dow. It's not easy. The subprime contagion strikes and strikes. This time Bristol-Myers. A true happy IRS story. Today is Super Tuesday, time to vote. Problems with Hillary. The blonde on the farm. The library and a book request.
Monday, February 4, 2008 Weekend media full of gloom and doom. Barron's alleges stocks are not cheap. BusinessWeek's housing meltdown and the argument for another 25% drop in housing prices in the next 2-3 years. Who's on Mars.
Friday, February 1, 2008 Not good economic news.

Thursday, January 31, 2008 More cockroaches in subprime. How bid traders manipulate the market. How Societe Generale management bungled unwinding the big position. Base metals have dropped in price. Outsource your computing to The Cloud. Amazon Web services. On his third trip to Mount Sinai.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 Trading in front of a Fed rate cut -- NO. Death of VaR (Value at Risk) Evoked as Risk-Taking Vim Meets Taleb's Black Swan. Turn off Automatic Updates. The dumbness of credit card balances. How the stockmarket really works. The redhead baby.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 Reasons why it's easier to start your own business today, part 2. More on one gold ETF called IAU. Gold's rise is Armageddon. Mint.com has some benefits. Oh, for a nice Australian vacation! French trader was forced to work 30 hours a week.
Monday, January 28, 2008 Starting your own business- Part 1. Ben Stein's Can Their Wish Be the Market’s Command? The Bucket List -- a highly recommended movie. A weekend computer virus. The mother-in-law.
Friday, January 25, 2008 Long-term mortgages getting cheaper. Now is the time for dipping, e.g. EMC, RVBD, SNCR and CSCO. Storms gather for the recession. The speed of change. Nickel and zinc are now in surplus. 10 Questions you must ask your doctor (from Best Life Magazine). OK to play with someone else's money. French trader loses $8.2 billion. Australian tennis.
Thursday, January 24, 2008 Fluke: EWA is filled at ultra-low price, then bounces. Doesn't work with Apple. Will the messever end? "For $25, anyone can sue anyone in California." All about dealing with lawyers. How to unstick emails in Outlook's outbox. Australian tennis.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 When in doubt stay out. How Springfield Mass failed to ask what it was buying. Bernanke versus Trichet. Inflation is no longer the concern in America, but it is in Europe. The dollar as the world's reserve currency is ending, says Soros. Who owns Iranian industry. Australian tennis.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 Three mantras to sing for today's markets. Two concerns. The good news. What happens to stockmarkets during recessions? Australian tennis.
Friday, January 18, 2008 Watching tennis. Staying out of equity markets. Don't type the wrong email address. The Australian Tennis Open.
Thursday, January 17, 2008 An exciting trip to San Diego. Sitting on cash. Turning your hobby into a business. How to interpret employment numbers. Get yourself a colonoscopy. Luck has its charm. Australian tennis.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 A couple bought a $300,000 condo in 2006 for $1,500. Someone loaned them 99.5% of the purchase price. I visit Ground Zero -- southern California. The delicious quote from Alan Greenspan extolling the virtues of subprime loans. The Next Bubble. Priming the Markets for Tomorrow's Big Crash. The white man's brilliance. Australian tennis.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 Two keys to real estate. I'm listening to Alan Greenspan's "The Age of Turbulence." Common mistakes in email English. Bloomberg Still Deciding Whether to Buy the Presidency. The world's best four-line phone system. Australian tennis.
Monday, January 14, 2008 Ben Bernanke's March 28 forecast on the containing of subprime problems. The Tech Wreck. Big drops in stockmarkets. Fair game, cruel jokes and no one is laughing. America's economy: A long slog. Idiot sightings.
Friday, January 11, 2008 Harry's Vanguard holdings. What now? Bernanke vows to make deeper interest rate cuts. What questions tourists have of Australia.
Thursday, January 10, 2008 The good news and the bad news among financials. Goldman Sachs predicts a recession. The extreme lack of visibility and what it all means to the stockmarket. What about short-term cash? Real productivity improvement in the dentist's chair. Soon it will be tax time. The high cost of health care.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008 The Dow breaks support. Shorting for profit. What to do with short-term cash. The happy story of the New York City hybrid taxis. The joys of retirement.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008 Capital markets have shut down, almost. But New York real estate booms. Elsewhere trends and implications. Reading the market's triple bottom. Lessons from the edge: Harry Macklowe's $6.4 billion bill. The tired dog. My bronchitis improves: lessons.
Monday, January 7, 2008 The Dow's worst three-day start to a New Year since 1932. Catalysts for this misery. Bryon Wien's forecasts for 2008. Subprime lending guidelines explained.
Friday, January 4, 2008 Caution. Cash and the sidelines. Tsunami investing and The Price of Oil. If it works, don't mess with it. This is a neti pot. Bronchitis, 12 days later. How children complete proverbs.
Thursday, January 3, 2008. Oil hits $100 a barrel. How to play commodities. Let's just say it was crowded. The Homecoming, great theater. The funeral stone.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 D.F.A. Index funds and their performance. Michael Lewis' story in Portfolio Magazine. Headlines from the year 2029..

Thursday, December 27, 2007. Devoid of investment ideas. Apple's up. The Jew in Love.
Wednesday, December 26, 2007. Subprime losses. "Savannah Cries About a Bicycle Left Behind in Reset of Subprime." The Economist's big double Christmas issue. Chewed aspirin makes the most sense: Seven great medical myths revealed. In the hospital.
Friday, December 21, 2007. What we learned in 2007. Bubbles. Even the smart money looks bad (stupid). Cockroaches parade. Warm milk.
Thursday, December 20, 2007.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007.
Monday, December 17, 2007.
Friday, December 14, 2007. Time to short Capital One. Paulson's bailout plan. Stock and fund recommendations from Cramer's latest book. End-year tax planning. Listening to books on your iPod. Compact fluorescent bulbs and floods. What happened to the squirrels?
Thursday, December 13, 2007. Don't mess with things you don't understand. The real story on Ambac, MBIA and SCA. Watch out shorting XLF. Still stay away from Vista. An important communications lesson.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007. Shorting the XLF. First take on Ambac, MBIA and SCA. Ambac, FGIC commence their countdown to Armageddon. How the Internet changed my life. What computers are really good for.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007. Arguing for commodities and Monsanto's magic seeds. Tax planning now. The grass is not greener on the other side. Why men shouldn't take messages.
Monday, December 10, 2007. The agony of failure. Ben Stein writes of his dumbness. The biggest career mistake my friends have made.Oil prices have dropped. Latest energy stock strategies from guru Jim Kingsdale. Time to keep your mouth shut. Happy Mental Health Day. Totally disgusting cowboy joke.
Friday, Decemcber 7, 2007. My call to cash on November 13 has been wrong, so far. The best bluetooth cellphone earpiece. The faster, better laptop - a Mac. Intercepting Iran's take on America.
Thursday, December 6, 2007. How not to raise money from angels. Wireless headphones; the perfect Chrismas present. The dumbest decision ever made: tilt'n'turn windows. Apartment prices in New York.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007. My feelings of caution and cash is king. Meeting with entrepreneurs. Ron Paul on Iraq. Leading a boring life compared with Seth Tobias. The blessings of modern technology.
Monday, December 3, 2007.

Friday, November 30, 2007.
Thursday, November 29, 2007.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007. My leading indicators. 1000% hedge fund wins subprime bet. Broad market is in a correction. Printing my dictionary in China. Checked baggage tips. A question of semantics.
Monday, November 26, 2007. Estimated losses for the banking system mount up. Small caps might appeal, Bloomberg writes. I caught a virus on my computer. My dog has a problem.
Friday, November 23, 2007 My 40th Thanksgiving. All about Canadian oil sands. Why I continue to not like financials. Clash of the Times -- Federer versus Sampras. One cruise you missed -- be thankful.
Thursday, November 22, 2007 Thanksgiving. No column.
Wednesay, November 21, 2007 Stiff neck. Give thanks. Oil moved over $99. Jim Kingsdale's latest piece. A heartwarming real estate story. All those beaten-down biotechs will come back, one day. My favorite magazine cover -- What were they smoking? The perfect turkey recipe. Four Turkey jokes.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 What makes sense in today's stockmarket. America's economy. Getting worried downtown. Whether or not it's an official recession, America's economy will feel grimfrom the Economist.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Friday, November 16, 2007 Cash. It's as good as money. Goodies you can buy from desperate sellers. Chest pains? An aspirin. Call 911. Is napping good for your health? Suspend your computer. Before they spoiled the software. Good news on fuel standards. Favorite New Yorker cartoon.
Thursday, November 15, 2007 The new currencies -- oil, gold and silver. What will happen to the dollar, the Euro et al.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 Time to go to cash.
Monday, November 12, 2007
Friday, November 9, 2007
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Wednesday, November 7, 2007 My business motto: Check. Check. Check. Dollar down; oil up. Two oil ETFs -- OIL and USO. Why Apple is worth $200. China's billionaires. Keep drinks away from your laptop. How life has changed. To die during sex.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007 Garmin and the Cyclone. The dollar's decline. When to change money managers. Simulscribe reads your voice mail. Spam won't stop. The high-tech milking machine.
Monday, November 5, 2007 Leap into oil. Why oil LEAPS make sense -- Jim Kingsdale's excellent returns. Why Pakistan's Musharraf imposed emergency rule. The extraordinarily high cost of divorce.My banking manager is called Ania Brzozowska. Michael runs the NYC Marathon: Molvanîa -- A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry. Actual country music song titles.
Friday, November 2, 2007 Citigroup declines. Flagship privileges at Vanguard -- closed funds you can get into. Practice saying NO. How many times do great ideas fizzle in cold reality? Turkish funds. The wedding invitation you always wanted to receive. A bad day? Someone will still screw you. Mice pictures. World's worst pun.
Thursday, November 1, 2007 Fed drops rates. Where oil is headed much higher. Easy ways to play oil -- OIL and USO. Investing in Turkey. Email from Citi is a total scam. Brood awakening. The best Halloween story.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007 McDep.com and rising oil prices. Prologis looks interesting. Sell your business; Avoid escrow. Best Halloween cartoons. This movie really was a stinker.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 Repeat of yesterday's column. Daylight savings time. Oil will continue to skyrocket. The dollar will continue to fall. Istanbul looks good. Building green buildings in Europe. Latest travel tips. Great Verizon BlackBerry 8830 phone. Favorite Microsoft warning. Little Johnny strikes again.
Monday, October 29, 2007 Daylight savings time. Oil will continue to skyrocket. The dollar will continue to fall. Istanbul looks good. Building green buildings in Europe. Latest travel tips. Great Verizon BlackBerry 8830 phone. Favorite Microsoft warning. Little Johnny strikes again.
Friday, October 26, 2007 Gone to Istanbul. Back on Monday.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 "Crib notes for Stock Analysts." Manhattan Pharmaceuticals as a Big Spec. Houses that survive forest fires. Going in Medicare and bragging. Michael Clayton, the movie, is good. World's worst golf joke. Six best mother jokes.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 Commodities fund is up 16.5%
Monday, October 22, 2007
Friday, October 19, 2007 The 20th anniversary of Black Monday -- what really happened. The quants of 2007.
Thursday, October 18, 2007 Australian ASX 200 up. When buying CDs. Gorgeous screensaver. Life's little rules. Tech stocsk are booming. College was never this good.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 Vanguard funds rock. How not to get sick. Reasons to start and own your own business. Emails get stuck in my Outlook outbox.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 Small tech portfolio. SNCR and QMAR shine. Bird flu stocks. Fox business channel opens. Excel keyboard shortcuts. Dumb magazines by BusinessWeek. My tax return went it last night.
Monday, October 15, 2007 Capital preservation and NetBank's closure. Where were you on October 19, 1987? A soldier in Iraq -- a very sad story. Federer's amazing shots. FlightBliss.com's benefits to airline travel. Technology wish come true. Life in Southern California. Ah technology!
Friday, October 12, 2007 Where were you on October 19, 1987? Infineon makes chips for the iPhone. Stay away from Vista. Bubba the mortician.
Thursday, October 11, 2007 What happened on October 19, 1987. Why? Will it happen again? Readings about the 1987 market crash. I wish these were brains.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Monday, October 8, 2007
Friday, October 5, 2007
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Monday, October 1, 2007
Friday, September 28, 2007
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Monday, September 24, 2007 You are your own worst enemy.
Friday, September 21, 2007 It's scrounge time. Generating deal flow is critical. Canadian Oil Sands Trust. Retire at 50 -- guaranteed by the government of France. The piracy paradox -- why copying designer clothing makes sense.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 Diversification or concentration? Personal guarantees are valueless. $100 a barrel and more, coming soon. Sell Rosh Hashanah, buy Yom Kippur. Proposed half time show for next year's Super Bowl.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Friday, September 14, 2007 Diversification or concentration? Personal guarantees are valueless. $100 a barrel and more, coming soon. Sell Rosh Hashanah, buy Yom Kippur. Proposed half time show for next year's Super Bowl.
Thursday, September 13, 2007 3.8% on triple tax-free floaters. Goldman Sachs' Global Alpha hedge fund loses big. Old Jewish stockmarket saying. Three essences of a Jewish holiday. Banks' New Credit Austerity To Help Set Economy's Path. In praise of daily exercise. The best health insurance? Why I sold my Qwest shares. What life is like in Zim. Why dogs bite people. Today is the first day of Rosh Hashanah -- a new greeting. Irish Catholic fidelity.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007 The dollar continues in free-fall against every major world currency. Buy the company, not the market.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 Six years after that horrific event. The Economist's latest technology quarterly.
Monday, September 10, 2007
Friday, September 7, 2007
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Friday, August 31, 2007 Stick with your goodies, your favorites. Different results through charting, part 2. Why a U.S. subprime mortgage crisis is felt around the world. Cleaning lady disease. U.S. Open Tennis schedule. Pet fish. Catching fish the modern way.
Thursday, August 30, 2007 Different results through charting, part 1. Poor Snoopy. More on tax-free gifting for tuition and medical bills. Three skills to teach yourself and your children. Try not to fly commercially. The system has fallen apart. Square watermelons. Don't mess with kids.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 Filling the air waves. The urgency financial writers face. Afghanistan's poppy production booming. One day up. One day down. Transferring wealth, one tuition bill at a time. It's the cable, stupid, Your credit card's expiration date is bogus. Confessional jokes.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 don't like what I'm reading. Unsold houses at a 16-year high. Investor confidence low. Falling housing values. Escalating credit card debt. Uranium booms in Australia. Playing IT manager for a couple of non-profits -- lessons. Bloomingdales gave me money.
Monday, August 27, 2007 Enthusiasm is our defining characteristic. You must read Nature's Casino, the cover story about disaster risk management in the weekend's New York Times Magazine. Where's Waldo? Bill Gross' latest piece. Check. Check. Check. What you read on the Internet is often not reliable. Hearings aids, part 3. Neat web site. SteepandCheap.com. Death and taxes.
Friday, August 24, 2007 The next shoes to drop are the home bulders. Housing is way out of whack. London home buyers delay on concern. LBO deals on hold until 2008. Local bond market disappears in Australia. The five worst puns.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 Good to get away for a day. Beware bailouts. After the tumult, is it Buffett time? Canon's super service. The hearing aid saga continued. My son back from India, Thailand, Cambodia, Singapore and Australia.
Monday, August 20, 2007
Friday, August 17, 2007 Trolling for bargains. Mae West quotes. The S&P 500 declines over the past month. How to make money, the Warren Buffet way. Apricorn external hard disks are great. Buying hearing aids? Verizon's FIOS makes huge sense.
Thursday, August 16, 2007 To be depressed. To be happy? Goldman? Lehman Bros.? Cockroach Stocks. If you think the market is going south further... The big news are BIG dividend yields. Look at Penn West Energy (PWE). Valuing balance sheets? Time to make some "offensive" bids? The Macs are getting rave reviews. Is it time to buy Apple? How to become the dictator of Venezuela. Foods that make major sense.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007 Shorting mortgage stocks like TMA. What should we do now? Stocks to short.
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Monday, August 13, 2007
Friday, August 10, 2007 A huge stockmarket crash yesterday. The deadbeats we loaned money to. What other problems exist? 1. Easy loans to other places. 2. Loans to hedge funds to buy equities. 3. Private equity deals going south. Typhoon of Anxiety Roils Global Markets. LBO shops circle ravaged loan desks. Take this message to the moon.
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Monday, August 6, 2007
Friday, August 3, 2007
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Wednesay, August 1, 2007

Tuesday, July 31, 2007 Credit markets in turmoil. Here's why.
Monday, July 30, 2007 What happened on Wall Street to money for borrowing and lending. Australian, Hong Kong and Japanese stock markets boiunce back. A credit crunch or a credit squeeze? Be careful of PDFs attached to emails. The Jewish divorce. The talking clock.
Friday, July 27, 2007 Yesterday's huge 2%+ stockmarket plunge. Maybe borrowings from Japan caused it. But ... "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." -- John Maynard Keynes. Nine things you should do today as a result of the decline. American dollars versus the Japanese Yen. Australia's Coat of Arms. Fake phone calls. Fortune cookie wisdom. The Hebrew Class. The best sport.
Thursday, July 26, 2007 The brain. Riverbed Technology spec of the day. Free money, continued. I'm glad I recommended Apple. Useful stat: Men fall out of hospital beds. How to surf the web anonymously. Traveling just got more miserable. End of college contraceptive discounts. Great experience with Canon SD800 and SD850. Dear Abby. Southern survivor.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007 The markets lay an egg. I'm not worried. I like finance.google.com. Free money. Favorite Australian miner, Kagara Zinc. The desperation at magazines. A Wicked Slim laptop. How to send a short message to a cell phone. Brilliant New Yorker cover. Two things you didn't know about women. How the fight started.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 Oil boom continues. IYE and OIH boom. God and his window. Harry and the Commodity Guru. The great gamble with the Dow Jones Company. The West Nile mosquito season. Jewish sex. Born to be Jewish.
Monday, July 23, 2007 Summer is screw-up time. Electro-Optical Sciences (MELA) is an interesting play. Computer screen holders from Ergotron. The new invention -- Mangroomer back razor. The most common grammar mistakes. Impeccable logic. Late night passion.
Friday, July 20, 2007 Secret revealed. The perfect investment is your own business. Newton's Rules on Running a Business today. Oil ETFs are doing well -- OIH and IYE. Don't click on attachments -- the new PDF virus. Loans, equity and other investments, and their differences. eBay is rife with fraud. SeatGuru.com will tell you which seat has a laptop outlet.
Thursday, July 19, 2007 Bernanke's obsession -- inflation, not growth. IRR Excel function, updated. Catastrophe health insurance. Overseas is not cheap. One dumb Dow Jones director. What would you have done? Told the truth? China continues to expand. One tough crane. Another piece of impeccable logic.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007 How to do IRR calculations in Excel. Jim Kingsdale's Energy Investment Strategies. Using Office 2007 and its file formats. Catastrophe health insurance. You really want the government taking over more of your health? What can't Apple's iPhone not do? Not very much according to this video. Bono's perfect logic.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 EWA shares. On building a house or an extension. Communications is key. LED flashlights. Watch our for your new TVs. Greatest classified ad ever. Great quotes on sex.
Monday, July 16, 2007 Cruising in Alaska. Pictures I didn't take. What impressed: the cruise ship's cabin. More travel tips. Unsubscribe. Mexico's oil output drops. Conrad Black's chutzpah. Garfield on the oil crisis.
Tuesday, July 3, 2007 Commodity prices look toppy. West Side Story in Pittsfield, MA. Great anals in entrepreneurship -- converting digital TV to analog TV. Analysis for Financial Management by Robert Higgins. Getting SMTP addresses when traveling. Oil will touch $80, $90 and perhaps $100 a barrel within a very few years. Iran is out of gas. Investment performance, continued: Dril-quip is coming back. Bucyrus International looks strong. But the BIG news is that my Vanguard funds, VTRIX, VGTSX, VPADX, VEMAX and VIMAX do handsomely. Verizon's new global BlackBerry 8830 phone worked perfectly in Europe. Going to Alaska on a cruise. Next column Monday, July 16.
Monday, July 2, 2007 Algae as biodiesel feedstock. Western Alliance Corp., a neat Western bank. Verizon broadband card shines. Going to Croatia on a bicycle trip with Backroads. S.E.C. Ends Decades-Old Price Limits on Short Selling. Tags for bags -- useful for traveling. "I left my BlackBerry charger here last week." Throw out your antiperspirants.

Monday, June 18, 2007 Algae as biodiesel feedstock. Western Alliance Corp., a neat Western bank. Verizon broadband card shines. Going to Croatia on a bicycle trip with Backroads. S.E.C. Ends Decades-Old Price Limits on Short Selling. Tags for bags -- useful for traveling. "I left my BlackBerry charger here last week." Throw out your antiperspirants.
Friday, June 15, 2007 Another perpetual motion machine. A neat Western bank: Western Alliance Corp. (WAL). Verizon broadband access card shines. "If left my BlackBerry charger here last week." Throw out your antiperspirants. The best golf quotes.
Thursday, June 14, 2007 Figuring honesty and competence. The American Indians and immigration. Gas prices to stay high. The 95-year old grandmother.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 China and its influence on U.S. Treasurys. The Sandbox Trap. Australians splurging on stocks. Rain boosts Hunter Valley wine makers. The joy of driving. The apocryphal Scottish story. The perpetual energy machine.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 American Airlines to San Diego. China makes. The world takes. Old people jokes.
Monday, June 11, 2007 The Harry Newton Hole/ Dig yourself in. Favorite Australian miner, Kagara. How the rich live -- Richistan. Scientific experiments with poop. The Scotsman. Stick with your winners. Lose your losers.
Friday, June 8, 2007 Estate planning: five basic choices. God's great invention-- compound interest. Which is better for your cash? High yield CDs or short-term triple tax-free muni bond floaters. Estate tax explained -- courtesy the IRS. Protecting yourself from electrical storms.
Thursday, June 7, 2007 The theory of unintended consequences. Key skills for all of us. Why building costs have skyrocketed. Are you earning 5% on your cash? Frost-Nixon is not pleasurable. French Open TV Schedule. Too much information on your resume.
Wednesday, June 6, 2007 One more Australian stock -- Metex Resources. Estate planning gotcha. Construction woes. Eagle Creek Load Warriors. Google voice search (better than 411). The perils of antioxidant supplements. Creation explained, finally. Examples of resume typos. French Open TV schedule.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 How much to invest in any one deal? Shooting yourself in the foot, part 2. PhotoBooth entrepreneurs are awful. Would you pay $2.48 now in return for $3.01 soon? Tom Tancredo's ideas on immigration. Estate planning and hedge funds. Ask your hedge fund for a letter on your and your spouse's deaths. Unnatural selection. French Open TV Schedule.
Monday, June 4, 2007 You are your own worst enemy. "We sold it too cheaply." Super entrepreneurial idea: The PhotoBooth. Tell your kids to get cracking: Murdoch buys more sites. "While we're at it, why don't we?" The secret of long life. The end is very near. French Open TV schedule.
Friday, June 1 , 2007 Finally I'm useful -- as my children's servant. Leap Wireless could appeal. What follows a stock market record? More of 'em. Australian miners/explorers keep climbing. Proud of recommending Apple. Best amateur wildlife video ever. Replacement keyboards for your laptop. French Open TV schedule.

Thursday, May 31, 2007 Opting not to be a slumlord. Pain at Goldman's flagship hedge fund. More great talks from TED. MetroNaps' pricey naps. The Jewish Bra.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 Key Energy Services (KEGS.PK). Everyone should be an entrepreneur. Jet lag can be cured. Bob Hope's brilliance.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007 Strokes. Desktop search: dtSearch recommended. DialAHuman.
Friday, May 25, 2007 My friend, the idiot, who doesn't clone his hard disks. The woman who won't do a web site. Verizon's latest and greatest BlackBerry 8830. How to build a new home. Actual writings from hospital charts.
Thursday, May 24, 2007 How Harry's money managers performed to end-April, 2007. How not to be outbid on eBay. Check. Check. Check. Unlocked GSM phones. Free software to play DVDs. How to prevent bronchitis. Bidding on a web site. The absolute best speeding ticket excuse. The 11 minute deadline.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 Four spots where global warming spells opportunity. Shipping is booming. Danaos Corp. and Eagle Bulk Shipping merit attention. Summer travel with cell phones.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 Happy for recent recommendations: Apple, Dril-Quip and Global SantaFe. How I really messed up with Point Therapeutics (POTP).How to bid on eBay. How to cure bronchitis.
Monday, May 21, 2007 IPOs are booming -- IPO Scoop.com. When to escalate? Very useful services: Quickbrowse.com and FreeConferencePro.com. How Swiss bankers get rich.
Friday, May 18, 2007 The boom in oil drilling service companies, part 2. Bill Gross's bond timing mistake. How to buy foreign stocks. My favorite point and shoot SD800 IS just got better. Learning about book retailing. In time for summer parties. Was Osama right? The Indian bride. The mechanic and the surgeon.
Thursday, May 17, 2007 Oil drilling service, part 1. Rowan Companies. Cash tsunami warning in Australia; equity predicted to quadruple. EWA runs up. Renting out the son's apartment. Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur. A harmless drudge. The Wolfowitz saga continues. Married life. Isaac & Sarah.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 GlobalSantaFe shines. Bloomberg poised for a third party campaign? Another reason I support the Innocence Project. Pillow talk. Finally, two churches with great humor.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Feel good -- parts 1 and 2. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely -- the Wolfowitz saga continues. How an investment of $36 billion turns bad. Family support. First time ushers. Prayers. The revenge of the water pistol.
Monday, May 14, 2007 How international markets (including Australia) have performed this year. Ways to invest in Australian stockmarkets. The new Windows laptops are only marginally enticing. How to keep your Windows laptop running. Yet another reason to buy a Mac. New (dumb) airline -- Skybus. Neat advertising in Venice Airport.
Friday, May 11, 2007 If I were a betting man, I say "That's it for now." Fred Hickey is on High Crash Alert. Looking perfect, one pixel at a time. The two-story outhouse.
Thursday, May 10, 2007 CHECK. CHECK. CHECK. The Wizard (Warren Buffett) Drops the Curtain. The perfect Mother's Day Present. The Phillips 8-inch digital picture frame.
Wednesday, May 9, 2007 Australia's largest mining company, BHP. China is going nuts over stocks. You must see "110 In The Shade," New York's latest hit musical. Five technology predictions for 2007 from Robert Cringely. How profitable is the hedge fund / private equity business? Buying a defibrillator, part 2.
Tuesday, May 8, 2007 Conservative stock buying tips. The Stockpickr Guide to Uranium.Favorite Australian mining stocks are flying. Apple and HP do well. Save your life. Take a CPR course. Buy an AED -- automatic external defibrillator. I love ballet dancers, especially Aesha Ash.
Monday, May 7, 2007 How to live forever. Will the stockmarket continue its run? Why I want Rupert Murdoch to own the Wall Street Journal. Download Internet Explorer 7. Play Windows Media files in QuickTime on your Apple laptop.
Friday, May 4, 2007 Reading annual reports makes sense. I like Dril-Quip. David Pogue's Best of Breed: Best Small Camera: the Canon SD800 IS. Best Amateur SLR: Nikon D40. Best Camcorder: Canon HV20. Best DVR: TiVo Series 3. Best Smartphones: TIE: Treo 700p and BlackBerry Curve. Best Laptop: MacBook. Heavy Options Activity Stirs Suspicions. In Jihadist Haven, a goal: To kill and die in Iraq. How to drive in LA: a manual for visitors.
Thursday, May 3, 2007 Conservative tips when markets booming. Return of capital pleasures. The Wall Street Journal as a mini-Bloomberg. You don't have to be smart to be rich. Don't believe everything you read in the new Portfolio magazine. Having battery issues with your new MacBook?
Wednesday, May 2, 2007 Total lack of fear in the stockmarket. Lessons if you feel that the market may go down. Irrational complacency. Buy a Citation CJ3. Don't check your bags. The best late night jokes about global warming.
Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Monday, April 30, 2007
Friday, April 27, 2007 Time to look at telecom stocks? The problems with telecom. The Economist's latest telecoms survey: When everything connects wirelessly. Condé Nast got sucked in by Tom Wolfe. Stock stockmarket is booming. But will it last? Why global warming. Mexican oysters.
Thursday, April 26, 2007 How to assess new investment ideas. Tom Wolfe on hedge funds. I've been hurtful to lawyers. How to zap the crap on that brand-new PC. More fallout from Imus. The Amazing Claude.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 Big earnings by hedge fund managers. How the quant guys do it. The Innocence Project hits 200. Neat new cell phone technology. Two tasteless jokes.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007 Why are stockmarkets rising? Stay diversified. The art of predicting. Black Swans. Figuring supplier tardiness. David Halberstam is killed in a California car crash. The Jewish bra.
Monday, April 23, 2007 Messages from the weekend reading. An elite club's fall from grace. Phil Anschutz spends it on Beckham. How long will I live?
Friday, April 20, 2007 Dril-Quip makes sense. Uranium also does. The story of Qwest. For emergencies, use SMS. How to buy replacement laptops parts, including keyboards. "The Little Book of Common Sense Investing." Russia plans tunnel under Bering Strait. There is a right way and a wrong to check a diaper. Is it OK to take Viagra on the Sabbath?.
Thursday, April 19, 2007 Aussie firm launches global water fund. The Economist messes up their great Screensaver. My daughter spills water on his laptop. How to blow a cool $100 million. More warnings on Vista. Three more great talks from TED.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 Lessons from this year's tax filings. Ask and ye shall receive. The American Express Centurion card's perks. Switch drafts to inbox in Outlook. LLBean creates Gore-Tex clone. Go the supplier direct; it's often cheaper. Three more great talks from TED: Jennifer Lin, Kevin Kelly and Richard Dawkins. Kids talk about who to marry.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 What happened with subprime loans? How can Paul Wolfowitz be SO dumb? Two-day extension to rainstorm victims. Biodiesel appeals. Harvard Business School goes with Windows XP, not Vista. The story of the Australian and the Muslim. The story of the perfect man.
Monday, April 16, 2007 Australian stocks. A primer for Quick Analysis. Harry's Cheat Sheet of Key Concepts. The Power of Green. Thomas Friedman's latest piece. Portfolio Magazine launches. Please wear a seatbelt. Do schools kill creativity? It's a Good Thing A Kenyan Runner Is Fast on His Feet. I miss Bill Clinton.
Friday, April 13, 2007 The final word on bonds. Vanguard funds that look great. Ethanol will make a lot of people rich. But not you or I, yet. Don't open email attachments. SeatGuru helps you find the least worst seat on your next trip.
Thursday, April 12, 2007 Why people buy bonds -- 10 reasons. Diversification essays from the Yale Endowment annual report.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 How the Yale Endowment earned 22.9% last year. Yale's allocations. Yale's explanations. More on Australia's continuing boom. Its currency is now near a 17-year high.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Should I own bonds -- part 2. Returns from equity managers. Vanguard Australian index shares.
Monday, April 9, 2007 Should I own bonds -- part 1? Retirement sanity tips. The 2007 Irving Kristol Lecture by Bernard Lewis.
Friday, April 6, 2007 Take home enough to live on. More equities, fewer bonds. Mercedes' great investment in Chrysler: what you can learn. The genius of Buffet. Always expect the unexpected: The theory of the Black Swans. More than two million documents will be lost by the IRS this year. Winnie and the food.
Thursday, April 5, 2007 EWA revisited. Self managed funds in Australia. Is uranium rising? The burden that is a new PC and what to do about -- MSCONFIG. Classic John Stewart. What's happened to housing prices? Hedge fund returns updated.
Wednesday, April 4, 2007 How much to give to my favorite hedge fund? How to say NO. Watch your daylight savings time. It's wrong. InfoWorld ceases print publication.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007 Cherry picker needed for windmills. Huge energy news: Supreme Court slams the Bush administration's EPA for being lax on fuel standards. Subprime homesick blues. Where are you doing to get that lawyer in Heaven?
Monday, April 2, 2007 Gotchas and windmills. The harder it is to get out, the worse the returns typically are. Google's free in-home wireless broadband service. How to boost your EVDO reception. The correct order for rebooting your cable modem or DSL line. The four best Passover jokes.

Friday, March 30, 2007 Rules on hiring and firing money managers. "Investment Porn" from Tribeca Financial. Global warming -- Part 2. Doing business in the email world. Global times? JibJab does it again.
Thursday, March 29, 2007 Experience with commodities. Global warming from the Atlantic Monthly. Just how political has Global Warming become -- Thomas Friedman. My son, the Dartmouth graduate.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007 Oil is up. Compact screw-in fluorescents -- part 2. Everyone is switching to Apple computers Not only newspapers, but also magazines are in trouble. What's it cost to send your son to business school? Why upgrading to Office 2007 or Vista is not advisable, yet. Steven Wright's wonderful humor.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007 Ethanol is not the magic alternative energy. Oil is going over $100 a barrel. EWA is another way to invest in Australia. Things I've learned about screw-in fluorescents.
Monday, March 26, 2007 Front running and talking to reporters. How Merrill Lynch's research gets stolen. How Cramer talks up (or down) stocks. Emily Litella. The future of books. Being nice to Osama bin Laden.
Friday, March 23, 2007 Australian stocks booming, as more money drops in super funds. New fund for Brian Hunter, ex of the Amaranth disaster. Nacchio sells $100 million of Qwest stock.
Thursday, March 22, 2007 An industry in decline -- newspapers. The Feds held interest rates. The story of subprime mortgages. Dropload.com is for sending large files. Check your PC's time. Power supplies for traveling this summer. Oh to be a dictator. Divorce is fun, sort of. A horse, a chicken and a Harley.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 The perfect investment; your own business. Biggest problems. GoToMeetings.com works like a charm. Maps.Google is great.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Simmons on Peak Oil and the likelihood of much, much higher oil prices, soon. Jim Kingsdale interprets Simmons. Ken Lay's jinxed desk is up for sale. Yellow rain. How to stay informed if you're a patient in hospital.
Monday, March 19, 2007
Friday, March 16, 2007 Investing in startups: personal cautions. Personal Video Recorder (PVR) noise is irksome. The Colby DVD player I bought stinks.
Thursday, March 15, 2007 My commercial real syndicates continue to do well: details. The Microsoft Intellimouse 4.0. More reasons to buy a Mac.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 Concentrating on tennis. Tricks for daylight savings time.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007 Western real estate developer pay off. Keys to getting paid on loans: security and personal guarantees. Cockroach stocks; you can smell them. Here's how. Tech companies bleeding red ink pursue IPO gold. You can sell anything -- $485 for a pair of jeans you can't wash.
Monday, March 12, 2007 Concerns for the stockmarket. Little tests for entrepreneurs. Switching to a Mac. The Microsoft Intellimouse 4.0; why I love it.
Friday, March 9, 2007 Two articles on the stockmarket -- one by the New Yorker's James Surowiecki and the Economist. Positive comments from the Economist magazine on Australia. Need a spare charger? My friends speak highly of the Geek Squad. I'm blown away by how many people are switching to Macs. Happy day in the Newton family household: Michael is admitted to HBS.
Thursday, March 8, 2007 More on peak/non-peak oil. And oil drillers service companies to invest in. Must-Have Plug-ins for Firefox: Showcase, Session Manager, MeasureIt and InFormEnter. Musings of Albert Einstein. His new best friend. The power of flattery.
Wednesday, March 7, 2007 Why Jim Cramer and I like biotechs. The New York Times on "Oil Innovations Pump New Life into Old Wells." Microsoft Vista: Don't upgrade; Don't buy a PC running Vista. Reasons. Apple will benefit from Microsoft's sleepiness.
Tuesday, March 6, 2007 The gruesome stockmarket fall. What now? Housing's recovery, in places. Tired of voice mail? Try Simulscribe. Use Internet technology to boost your profits: 15 ways. Ouch. Is it Scotch?
Monday, March 5, 2007 No column. Rushing to get the next edition of my dictionary out.
Friday, March 2, 2007 Berkshire Hathaway continues to do phenomenally. Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) are a new asset class. Pick up a free trial copy of Argus. How to boost your cellphone. Lawyers, lawyers and more lawyers. The blondes at the lumber yard. The two kids. Till death do us part.
Thursday, March 1, 2007 Assess everything you own. Here's how. So who benefited by this week's Big Meltdown? One big lesson: Expand your investment horizons. Now for your treat of the day: Upgrade disasters made easy.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007 The day after the Big 475-point meltdown: Lessons. Big changes are hitting the wireless industry -- for good. How Saudi Arabia managed to bungle all that oil wealth.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 The China meltdown. The Economist's free, neat screensaver. When the forecast says "Yuch," postpone your trip. The most annoying things about Vista.
Monday, February 26, 2007 Mergers. Is the stockmarket peaking? The Internet is not always the cheapest. Watch for dust on your digital SLR camera.
Friday, February 23, 2007 Corn farms replace New York lofts as hottest property. Geothermal makes increasing sense. Charity begins somewhere, but who'll listen? Healthline’s neat new Symptom Search. A Hindu, a Rabbi and a lawyer.
Thursday, February 22, 2007 All about building houses and buying really expensive houses. The best Jewish joke ever. Fees, fees and more fees in fund of funds. Are we all masochists? JetBlue implodes. The logic of interesting years 1981 and 2005.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 I visit the International Traders Expo. Ergotron monitors. The "profits" in being a Broadway Angel.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Motorola a buy? Eyeball your junk email folder. How Toyota does it. Supermarket sales tactics. When flying, watch the weather. Robin Williams plays tennis. More Anna Nicole Smith. Puma sneakers.
Friday, February 16, 2007 The 1-in-a-1000 rule. InSite Vision finally does its deal. Housing - what happened? Fees on Fund of Funds. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom looks great.
Thursday, February 15, 2007 Australia besotted with savings. Stockmarket happiness. The greatest lens ever invented. 1099s to be late.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007 Great technology, erstwhile lousy management --eMagin. Stay away from Wall Street's structured products. The fantasy of lurid projections. Hedge funds are the next bubble? Michael's killer parasite is being killed. Home alone safety tip -- keep your car keys handy. Frank Derfler is homeschooling his grandchild.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007 Tech stocks. Microsoft -- Vista and Office.
Monday, , February 12, 2007 Iraq.
Friday, February 9, 2007 Basic computer reliability strategy. Latest Vanguard fund. The Lawyers' Full Employment Act. How to save energy. Getting your money back from your unfavorite hedge fund. Michael's parasite -- part 2. The prawn and the shark.
Thursday, February 8, 2007 Big bets. Little bets. Forbes' 25 Fastest-growing Tech companies. HSBC's ultra-dumb prime lending to deadbeat housing buyers. Michael, goes to India on business, eats the wrong thing, picks up a nasty parasite called blastocystis hominis -- part 1.
Wednesday, February 7, 2007 Idiot me. Check. Check. Check. Absolute Software does great. Neat, free charting from Yahoo! Finance. Perfectly fine web hoster -- ICDSoft.com. Grandchildren are better than children.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007 Too few of our children become entrepreneurs. The Dyson story. "My cable modem is slow. My DSL line is slow." -- Part 2.
Monday, February 5, 2007 Economic intelligence from Stratfor. "My cable modem is slow. My DSL line is slow." -- Part 1.
Friday, February 2, 2007 Of taxes and returns. A reader's ideas on hedge fund managers. Friends are bubbling with new ventures. "My Outlook is running sloooow." Properties of the land Down Under.
Thursday, February 1, 2007 Time to look in your own backyard for distress housing and cheap land -- and caveats. Delhi Belly and its solution. Yahoo! versus NetVibes. The Fed held interest rates steady yesterday. Daylight savings time extends.

Wednesday, January 31, 2007 Investing as a circle. My favorite commercial office building syndicator has another fund. Excellent results, so far. Carl Icahn runs an "activist" hedge fund; he buys into Motorola. Tony Blair is a hoot. Two-story outhouse says it all.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 The boom in office. The boom in iron ore.
Monday, January 29, 2007 Predicting the economy. Falling through the cracks at the IRS -- solutions. Prairie Home Companion, worth seeing. Bose earbuds are great. Wire, not wireless, your home. Things you didn't know about the Middle East.
Friday, January 26, 2007 Celebrating Australia Day. India and the commodities. Warnings on alternative energy. Hard to get worried about inflation. Stupid problems with the IRS.
Thursday, January 25, 2007 Mulling about commodities.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007 Nickel is soaring. Worried about inflation. Oil is rising: Buy oil producers. Don't touch Microsoft's Vista, yet. Zappos is great. Fossil fuels and global warming. Australian Tennis is open. Secrets of a happy marriage. Boudreaux's Daughter.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007 Mulling imagination, created options and configured alternatives. Kagara grows. Fossil fuels hurt global warming.
Monday, January 22, 2007 Local Vanguard index funds with appeal. All about the differences in index funds. Travel tips - 2. Two videos you must watch. How to save on MR-16 light bulbs. Which browser for me -- Firefox or Internet Explorer. The "benefits" of high definition TV.
Friday, January 19, 2007 Puts on tech stocks may be among the greater investment plays of the next few months. New Zealand, a paradise of sorts. Only 12 hours to live. A short psychiatry story.
Thursday, January 18, 2007 Preliminary trip conclusions: Stay with Australia. Stay away from New Zealand. The best Travel Tips, including the best pillow and what to do about broadband overseas. Email suddenly much worse. Last airline story.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007 Jet lag. Great airline story.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 Where will the world go in 2007? No one knows. But there are two universal Investment Rules: Do I control it or not? What then? Prayer versus diversification. Nick chuckle to begin the year.
Monday, January 15, 2007 No column. Oops.

Monday, December 18, 2006 Top investment lessons of 2006. Top Life lessons of 2006. Lessons to share with the children. Fraudulent email from PayPal. "Damn contemporary bullshit architecture." What I didn't learn in Hebrew school.
Friday, December 15, 2006 Australian stocks continue to climb. My absolute best investments. What happens when a virus gets you. How to avoid it
Thursday, December 14, 2006 Explaining tax gains and losses. Juggling end-of-year gains and losses. Skype changes and charges, a little. A super Logitech webcam. Back problems solved, including the best desk chair ever. Don't automatically download updates. The ultimate in creativity. How to park a horse.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006 Tea leaves in the Fed's hold-it interest rate statement. If only God had the money to buy a gigantic apartment.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 Check for unrealized and realized gains. Email to your customers really works -- best ways. Calling overseas. Iraq's biggest failing. Wonderful quotes. Gracie Allen's classic recipe for roast beef. The perfect investment for an 88-year old.
Monday, December 11, 2006 Spam works. Here's why. Do NOT install Microsoft's new Office 2007 -- yet. Holiday tripping with the wife. Telling the truth. Collecting on the money.
Friday, December 8, 2006 Buying my dictionary back. Mini-boom in tiny biotechs -- Vioquest and Point Therapeutics. Hickey is predicting a major consumer recession. Here's his put option selections. What is happiness -- Part 2? Turning us onto VistaPrint
Thursday, December 7, 2006 Cramer likes Level 3. End of year tax moves. Some of our biggest companies are crooks. My wife thinks I'm miserable: Happiness -- Part 1. My favorite Rabbi story. My favorite lawyer story.
Wednesday, December 6, 2006 Australia issues bonds. How to invest in Australia -- Part 2. Everyone loves memory books. The crud is going around. Viewing the funeral. The value of flattery. At the restaurant.
Tuesday, December 5, 2006 How to invest in Australia -- Part 1. Freedom and Justice in Islam. Be wary of the questions you ask. Our wonderful phone system.
Monday, December 4, 2006 Take a little money off the table. Here's why. When Wall Street looks like Pamplona, sound an alarm. How to tell if a stock is a bargain. Skype gets better and better. Buy Apple stock.
Friday, December 1, 2006 How to invest in speculative startup software companies. Step one: Is it a sandbox. The absolute joy of compound interest. Richard Russell explains why he also loves compound interest.
Thursday, November 30, 2006 Bernanke is upbeat on the economy. Questions to ask your hedge fund. Delicious Australian miners. Biggest mistakes made when you're out selling. Computer stuff is getting ultra-cheap. The 12 days of an Indian Christmas. The end of ingenuity and its impact on commodity prices.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006 The benefit of refinancing your real estate investment. Dumb-down approach to of investing -- part 2. The virtues of marriage.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006 Stocks fall. Office condominiums -- new investment vehicle. Housing is picking up, slowly. Something awful cold-wise is going around. Zithromax works for me. Ford bets the farm.
Monday, November 27, 2006 Dumb-down approach to investing -- part 1. Is it really worth trying to beat the market? A Random Walk Down Wall Street. Vanguard funds I own. Vanguard Funds which Vanguard likes. Kagara Zinc's annual meeting. Christmas/Chanukah presents.
Friday, November 24, 2006 Buy the latest iPod. No capital to start your new business. No true. Kagara pays its maiden dividend.
Thursday, November 23, 2006 Thanksgiving Day. Alice's Restaurant Massacree, the song.
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Tuesday, November 7, 2006 Election Day. Real estate -- New York, Salt Lake City, Arizona. Changing my life. Tourism prevails. The virtues of marriage. B&H Photo -- Really neat catalog. Marvin and the Guru.
Monday, November 6, 2006 Will the housing collapse bring down the stockmarket? The perils of investing in a private family company. Microsoft Office Live appeals. Make yourself your very own Jackson Pollock. Officer claims wife put pot in meatballs. The wife and the husband.
Friday, November 3, 2006 The Art market: Record highs, but mediocre returns. An update (and a different opinion) on hedge funds. As America slows, so Europe (especially Germany) picks up.
Thursday, November 2, 2006 All about Hedge funds. Harry's new hedge fund rule. One hedge fund craters. Numeric keypad for laptops. The Departed, a great movie.
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 Ownership remains the key, especially in real estate. The concept of sunk cost. Why reporters (and people) say what they say. The mining boom's over. Bullish or bearish for Cramer? The endless charm of English. Marvin and the Guru.

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 Lucky or smart? Australia is the Lucky Country. Qwest creeps up. The fickleness of "hot" markets. Once housing was burning hot. Now? Travel tips. Reforming the reformable -- France. Ridding yourself of irksome error messages. Favorite Borscht Belt humor.
Monday, October 30, 2006 All about Israel. Three Australian mining stocks doing well. Takeover candidates. Travel tips. Favorite email justification from American Express.
Friday, October 20, 2006 Off to Israel for a week. Be back October 30.
Thursday, October 19, 2006 Handling complaints. Latest returns on money managers. The new Internet Explorer 7. Scott Ritter, part 2. You know you're from California, if....
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Oil? Scott Ritter's Target Iran. Buy what you love. Don't buy what you hate. With one caveat -- regime change. Don't you just love Wall Street's analysts. "You can complain, or you can make money:" Ben Stein's latest article. Tennis elbow: more advice. Time to call in.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006 Long-term oil prices are due to rise. High yield savings accounts. Cheap fall getaway trips.
Monday, October 16, 2006 The IPO market is popping. Emigrant Savings is paying 5.05% on its Internet savings accounts.
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Monday, October 2, 2006 Yom Kippur. The Parado Philosophy. Bond investors fear a an American slowdown. Getting Republicans elected in November: more conspiracy theories. What will happen today in shul. What goes on around high the High Holidays.

Friday, September 29, 2006 Conspiracy theories on getting Republicans elected in November. Absolute Software moves up. New ways to read the New York Times. How to take a gun away from someone. Fed up with fakes on eBay? Every home needs Nabaztag from Violet. A fancier Bluetooth earpiece/speakerphone. DEMO demonstrations. Getting the jar open.
Thursday, September 28, 2006 Five major influences affect investing today: 1. Much money. 2. Higher asset prices. 3. Heightened desperation. 4. Fashion. 5. Lightning speed. Implications. Gas is down; go back to sleep. Can you believe anything you read? Remembering Dan Dorfman. Do not see the movie, Black Dahlia. The ultimate gotcha.
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 Canadian oil sands producers -- Enerplus and Penn West Energy Trust. If your computer is acting quirky. How to deal with professionals. The insanity of pre-texting, courtesy Hewlett Packard. New York City mulls ban on trans fats in its restaurants. Proving certain guilt.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 Being suckered in by past performance. How to invest in hedge funds. The high water mark in scandals. The backdating of stock options. Cablevision gave backdated options to a dead executive. The huge jump in bond prices. What does the press know about Apple? Curiosity has its merits and its profits. Marriage. Boudreaux applies for the football team. Informing next of kin.
Monday, September 25, 2006 My Claire gets engaged. Will Oracle buy Novell and put it out of its misery? Too much desperation; too much chutzpah. The best marriage joke.
Friday, September 22, 2006 Eyeing some private equity funds. Don't overpay your speeding fine. Keeping away from tech. Stupid asset allocation charts. Delorme's Street Atlas 2007 is out. Outsourcing: Anyone, Anything, Anywhere. Extreme logic.
Thursday, September 21, 2006 You make money on what you know. Lessons from the Amaranth mess. More on Amaranth. You can feel the frustration. Who says men don't remember anniversaries? Reading an Arab newspaper, the good news.
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 Interest rates are dropping. How to lose lots of money fast -- Amaranth, continued. How to avoid bugs while flying. How cheap laptops have become. The drunken cowboy.
Tuesday, September 19, 2006 Implications of no rate increase. How to lose lots of money fast -- courtesy Amaranth. How to avoid bugs when flying. How cheap laptops have become. The drunken cowboy. The good Jewish news.
Monday, September 18, 2006 Reasons to say NO. The hedge fund king -- Steve Cohen -- is getting nervous. Visiting the doctor's office.
Friday, September 15, 2006 Recent picks -- Absolute Software, Qwest Communications, and GTW. Why eBay bought Skype -- video auctions. What if the Internet were a real place? Recalls galore. Unprotecting and copying DVDs, downloaded music, movies and TiVos. What happens if they all accept? Coming soon to a Wal-Mart near you. The perfect way to remember a big birthday. Steve Irwin dies. Four little animals.
Thursday, September 14, 2006 When in doubt, stay out. The desperation of necessity. How to call cheap. Watch those minor cuts. Plumber's Crack. Mind games, what neuroeconomics tells us about money and the brain. Totally wonderful no smoking scene. They sure knows how to hurt you.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 Shaping up to be a difficult year in equities. Hedge funds miss their targets. Best idea on solving hay fever. Everyone loves hybrids: How to get emergency power out of your Prius for your home. The funniest joke in the world. A second wife. The first husband.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 How to motivate builders and subcontractors. Manhattan real estate update. Suffering your way through September. Karen Greenberg's Prius. All about Global Warming -- worldwide and in Australia. The Texas Gotcha.
Monday, September 11, 2006 Five years after 9/11. What I learned. Good things begin with a phone call. Naive Harry and Wall Street conflicts of interest. Ford hires new CEO. Economists have ideas about housing. A flight that goes all the way. Agassi's "just keep fighting." How to get government benefits -- a fantasy story.
Friday, September 8, 2006 Gotchas. Vioquest Pharmaceutical and other oncology drug makers. Chase dumps its customers' personal information. HP spies on reporters.
Thursday, September 7, 2006 The entrepreneurial explosion continues. Fred Hickey is bearish on technology and offers some put ideas. FedEx is not doing well -- at least by me. Today's top investment traps. Nebraska economics.
Wednesday, September 6, 2006 Don't put your money into something you don't understand, i.e. the movies. The perils of Pump and Dump. I like YorkPhoto.
Tuesday, September 5, 2006 Feeling optimistic. I've always loved GE... but. Donald Rumsfeld's dance with the Nazis.
Monday, September 4, 2006 Labor Day. Afghanistan's opium harvest is booming. Children's science exam.
Friday, September 1, 2006 Intel is firing zillions and focusing -- now a good buy? Window film -- a truly fantastic product, part 2. Drugs are cheaper at Costco. A happy story. Never end a sentence with a preposition.

Thursday, August 31, 2006 Saving energy with window film - part 1. Broadband access for your laptop. AOL software stinks. Australian brothels help the energy crisis. "Moove" close and don't hug the cows. What President Bush missed out in Vienna. Oh to be 6 again!
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 InSite Vision is moving up. The History Boys on Broadway. China's 432 million mobile users. Who killed the newspaper? The worst pun ever.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006 Investing in Canada, Germany and Australia. Bargains coming soon in real estate. Digital photography latest updates. The best traveling bag -- the Eagle Creek LT30.
Monday, August 28, 2006 How important is real estate? InSite Vision announces FDA acceptance of an NDA. Watch your forwarded emails. Free spyware. It's always the cable. DSL is less reliable than Cable TV broadband. Serious about your PC? Shoot your cat. New security check-in procedures.
Friday, August 25, 2006 Australian mining stocks. What a chart revisited -- Advanced Cell Technology -- ACTC. What were the lawyers thinking? How to speed up your PC. Free copy of Microsoft Office 2007. The US Tennis Open TV Schedule. Crackdown on striptease funerals. Nude fountain bather defies police. Texans are very smart. The ultimate logic.
Thursday, August 24, 2006 What a chart! Advanced Cell Technology (ACTC.OB) booms. My first §1031 real estate exchange. Buy real estate low. TiVo's new software. Second request: Watch the Sharapova Nike commercial. Power line adapters do work. Among the stupider products ever invented. Bubba's wonderful trip to Paris.
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 The Big Crash in areas I discover -- my fear. Uranium -- where's it going? Maria Sharapova's great Nike commercial. We passed it by three firms. Take two and cross your fingers -- the widespread use of off-label drugs. How doctors work. Great happenings.
Tuesday, August 22, 2006 What's hot next? Uranium? News of ISV, ABT.TO and TPTH. The crazy doctor and the house he exploded. Nice to be back in unhurried New York. Power line adapters for getting Internet around your house. Photos of Austria and the Czech Republic. Recommending Backroads. Powerful smart women.
Monday, August 21, 2006 Austria -- comfortable, prosperous and timeless. TriPath Imaging comes good. Traveling with a laptop. Why Europe loves diesel. War on Daddy's Dime. Backroads is great.

Backroads bicycle vacation in Austria and Czech Republic. No columns.

Friday, August 11, 2006 "They're rioting in Africa" song. The gay flight attendant and the Princess. How to stay young (and survive the next 10 days without Harry) by George Carlin.
Thursday, August 10, 2006 What "Cash is King" really means. How to read newspapers and magazines online -- I like Newsstand.com. August 22 by Bernard Lewis. This photo may be doctored. Employee of the month. The Clumsy Pirate.
Wednesday, August 9, 2006 Guessing wrong. The Fed didn't lift its rates. Stay away from tech stocks. TriPath has cratered. Check, check, check what you read on the Internet. What a gorgeous evening.How to play great golf.
Tuesday, August 8, 2006 10-year treasury note interest rates rise. The keys to curing tennis elbow. Update your Microsoft Office. Hit the re-set button on your Linksys box. Loving Citibank's credit card. Obsession, the movie. The thrill of divorce. Claire Newton and the bubblegum. Iraq map updated. How to order room service in the orient.
Monday, August 7, 2006 Understanding what the Fed Reserve's role is. The geography of the middle east.Pondering, Discussing, Traveling Amid and Defending the Inevitable War by Bernard Levy. Keeping up a sense of humor in all this madness. The brink of madness: a familiar place by Victor Davis Hanson. Why English teachers die young.
Friday, August 4, 2006 Got one right: Qwest. iRows.com and Google Calendar. Another useful airline site: flightstats.com. Useful tax software: CCH Tax Research Network. YouTube's ownership. Buenos Aires is great. My latest favorite gadget -- a reto handset. A bill payer (CheckFree) falls behind its clients. Update your Microsoft Office. Getting Linksys wireless routers working. Citibank's credit card -- protection. Obsession, the movie. The thrill of public divorce. Claire as bubble blower. Iraq map updated. Happiness. How to order room service in Asia.
Thursday, August 3, 2006 All about my miserable experience