by Paul Douglas Boyer
My plan worked. On show 140 I told you about my crashed computer. When we left for a Christmas vacation for a week, I shut off my computer. It had been having some boot up problems before. Those problems turned out to be an early warning signal for something more major. I should have listened. […]
Sat, January 3 2009 » Blog, Tips » Comments Off on Computer Rescued, Now What?
We thought today would be a good day to visit the Museum of American History in DC. Newly renovated with more light. We were wrong. Everyone had downtime today and went to the museum. I dropped everyone off and hunted for a parking space. I found one on the street pretty close by after about […]
Fri, January 2 2009 » Blog, Tips » Comments Off on Planning to visit DC? Some tips.
By now you’ve heard about the alleged multi-billion, multi-year Ponzi scheme by Bernard Madoff and how so many other hedge funds were invested with him and how they lost money. Here’s the question: Are we sure those hedge funds lost their money by investing with Madoff? Maybe they did lose some money but maybe they […]
Wed, December 17 2008 » Analysis, Blog » Comments Off on Madoff Ponzi Scheme: Cover for Other Frauds?
US auto bankruptcy, bank bailouts, $50 billion Ponzi scheme, rising unemployment, layoffs, gold backwardation, Cramer saying markets are corrupt, inflation, deflation, on and on and on and on. Hey guys, the torrent of news, mostly bad, is unbelievable. I’m so awash in it that I’m wondering how I can deal with it on the show […]
Fri, December 12 2008 » Announcements, Blog » Comments Off on awash…
Is it just me, or did the Microsoft Live.com CashBack program drop to 8% from 25%? Comment at Drop.io/MadMoneyMachine if you want.
Wed, December 10 2008 » Announcements, Blog » Comments Off on Live.com CashBack drops to 8%?
This is funny. If he hadn’t already done this, I would have liked to have done a similar sarcastic “fix of the economy” on my show.
Wed, December 3 2008 » Analysis, Blog, Fun » Comments Off on How to fix the economy, by Fred Thompson
I like the things IFA did with the new version of their Quote of the Week video (Episode 40): http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5827003748799795690 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EQovKt0dSM http://www.ifa.com/advisorcam/index.aspx?video=mb15
Tue, December 2 2008 » Announcements, Blog » Comments Off on New New Pilot Quote of the Week
A show or two ago, I mentioned using the Microsoft Live.com CashBack program to get 25% off a Buy-It-Now purchase from eBay. It seems to have worked. If you are buying an expensive item from eBay, definitely look into this program. Here’s a quick synopsis of the steps to take: You need a Live.com account, […]
Mon, December 1 2008 » Announcements, Blog, Reviews » Comments Off on The MSFT 25% CashBack Seems to Work
Lemme know what you think of this podcast/YouTube episode:
Mon, November 24 2008 » Announcements, Blog » Comments Off on Pilot Podcast: IFA Quote of the Week
Here’s a handy table (for your printing pleasure) that shows what percentage gain you need to get on your investments to get back to where you were before a certain percentage loss. So for example, the S&P 500 index is down about 40% year to date. Looking down the table, you’ll see that we’d need […]
Tue, November 18 2008 » Analysis, Blog » Comments Off on Getting Back to Even
Take a deep breath. Pull the covers up over your head. Don’t look. Well… how about just a little peek? After ten months of this relentless bear market nonsense, the leader of the professional lazy portfolios has a return of -10.3%. That’s the Harry Browne Permanant Portfolio which bests the rest by at least 10% so […]
Mon, November 3 2008 » Blog » Comments Off on Lazy Portfolio Smackdown Update for 31 Oct 2008
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