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Sugar: The Bitter Truth

by Kirk Kinder on February 8, 2012

Very interesting video about the effects of sugar or fructose. I know this isn’t a financial topic, but what good is your money if you don’t have your health. Money ultimately buys happiness, and good health is a critical ingredient in happiness. Maybe the most important ingredient. It is a long video, but the cliff [...]

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How Are Those New Year’s Resolutions Coming

by Kirk Kinder on February 6, 2012

Here is an article I wrote for the Zone Magazine in Baltimore discussing New Year’s resolutions. Long story, short: make small changes to your behavior to ensure you stick with them. Small changes tend to yield big results over time. http://thezonemag.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/financial-resolution-check-up/ Also, track your expenses. I use Mint.com as it is a free application that [...]

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Your Share of the Recent Debt Ceiling Increase

February 1, 2012

The press may have ignored this story, but it will certainly impact you. I am talking about the recent increase in the debt ceiling. As part of the last debt ceiling debacle, the Congress put automatic triggers in place that allows the debt ceiling to increase another $1,200,000,000,000 (that’s what a trillion looks like). What [...]

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Hilarious Parody of the Government Debt

January 5, 2012

No words necessary (hat tip Paul Deitz)

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The Snowball is Back in Harford County

January 5, 2012

If you live in Harford County Maryland or the Baltimore Area, you might be interested in a charity event hosted by the Southern Harford Rotary. I am part of the Rotary group, and we are alerting everyone to the event. We are bringing back a popular social event that use to be an annual tradition  [...]

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MF Global: Fraud or Incompetence

December 14, 2011

Maybe it is the complexity of the financial scenario or the small scale of assets (only $1.2 Billion), but outrage does not seem to exist for MF Global and its lead dog, Jon Corzine. Whether the disappearance of $1.2 Billion in clients’ assets is fraud or incompetence, it could impact your portfolio if you don’t [...]

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Kyle Bass Uses Common Sense to Show the World is Screwd

December 8, 2011

I am a big fan of Kyle Bass. He is one of the few guys that seems to be able to take a 30,000 foot view of the world’s economy. He then breaks it down into very common sense and 8th grade math. His viewpoint is we are mathematically screwd.   Bass lays out the [...]

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Jobs Coming Back From China?

October 8, 2011

Here is a news piece from ABC discussing how jobs sent to China previously are returning to America. The news piece cites increasing wages in China, transportation cost savings by building in America, and productivity of American workers. These are huge pieces of why jobs will continue to return. As China’s capacity utilization grows, the [...]

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Great Post Mocking Bernanke

August 30, 2011

I love to see satirical condemnations like this, especially when the focus of the mockery is the Federal Reserve and its chief, Ben Bernanke. I don’t know much about this site or its author, but the satire is spot on. I am not sure what it will take for the United States and the rest [...]

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Forget TARP – the Fed Is Where the Banks Really Cleaned Up

August 22, 2011

Here is an article from Bloomberg describing the amounts received as loans from the Federal Reserve during the market blow up in 2008 and 2009. While taxpayers were enraged, and rightfully so, with the TARP bailout, which provided $300 billion to troubled banks, automakers, and other companies with strong lobbying arms, taxpayers should really be [...]

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