blogging sporadically since…what? 1998?
Posted in economy, Government, Personal on Apr 22nd, 2009
These were too big to post in Twitter, so I’ll put them up here. These are questions I hope Dave Ramsey answers in the upcoming Town Hall for Hope event on April 23rd. In Financial Peace University, you state a good target interest rate for mutual funds is 12% to 18%. What is a rate […]
Posted in Government on Jan 31st, 2009
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Posted in Government, politics on Dec 14th, 2008
I know I’m late, but here’s some thoughts. I’m generally optimistic about Barack Obama. Two big reasons: He is a much better role model to young minorities than rappers and athletes. He understands technology and I think that’s good. There’s a lot of potential to use technology to improve government and I hope we see […]
Posted in economy, election, Government, politics on Oct 27th, 2008
I’m probably not going to have very much time in the next two weeks for political analysis, with school and work and everything (somebody has to contribute to GDP and pay taxes to pay for the bailout). The way I see it now, I think Obama will when the election. I hope I’m wrong, but […]
Posted in election, Government on Oct 24th, 2008
An Obama win does have it’s bright side. From here: Which brings me back to why the Republicans need to get throttled: A humiliated, decimated GOP that rejuvenates and rebuilds around the principles of limited government, free markets, and rugged individualism is really the only chance for voters to possibly get a real choice in […]
Posted in economy, Government, On the Net on Oct 7th, 2008
I’ll try to post some interesting things around the web I’ve found that do a good job of explaining what’s been going on recently. This American Life, The Giant Pool of Money. Very interesting, a few months old. Describes why the banks started to make so many loans to people that probably wouldn’t pay them […]
Posted in economy, Government, politics on Oct 6th, 2008
Article from 1999 in the NY Times (emphasis mine). Fannie Mae, the nation’s biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits. It sucks because Fannie Mae […]
Posted in economy, Government on Sep 28th, 2008
Poking around at Economist.com and I found some interesting charts, like this one that shows how many weeks of pay a company has to give an employee for letting them go. Talk about crazy…in Zimbabwe a company has to give out over EIGHT YEARS worth of compensation to an employee. Why would you even remotely care […]
Posted in Christian, economy, Government, On the Net, politics on Sep 23rd, 2008
Dave has a plan for the bailout. It’s almost an 8 minute audio clip, but very interesting. He’s saying we can change a law that lets these mortgages become marketable again…the “mark to market” law in Sorbanes Oxley, I believe. The government can insure these mortgages and that lets them become saleable again. It’d be […]
Posted in economy, Government on Sep 23rd, 2008
The best comment I’ve read today about the oil/bailout stuff today is from badbanana on twitter: The price of oil has jumped a one-day record amount due to anxieties caused by the financial bailout designed to alleviate anxieties.