Archive for September, 2009
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009Okay, I need some help from all you technically-savvy AFM readers. I have been using my BlackBerry 8310 for nearly a year and for the most part have not had any issues with it. However, yesterday afternoon I started getting an error message when clicking on various notifications inside the Notifications tab in the Facebook [...]
7 “Lessons” We Should Have Learned From the Financial Crisis
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009Interesting article I found on MSNBC.com by John Schoen titled, “Seven Lessons From the Financial Meltdown”. In the article, he lists seven principles that were found to be flawed during the crisis of the last couple of years: Home prices don’t go down. Did anyone seriously believe this one when housing prices were going up [...]
Jim Cramer Thinks Things Are Looking Up
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009Not a big Cramer fan but he makes some sense in the first part of this video:
September 15th
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009This is totally off-topic but I figured that since it is September 15th, we should listen to a piece of music titled, “September 15th.” This was composed by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays and is dedicated to the memory of Bill Evans (also Wikipedia page), who died on September 15, 1980. A beautiful piece of [...]
An Interesting Thought From Charles Geisst Regarding Consumer Debt
Monday, September 14th, 2009I’m reading a very interesting book (interesting if you like reading and learning about business history) by Charles Geisst called, Collateral Damaged: The Marketing of Consumer Debt to America*. As the subtitle suggests, the book is about conumer debt. Although it seems hard to believe, there was a time when consumer debt was virtually non-exsistent. [...]
This is For All You Quarter Collectors Out There…
Friday, September 11th, 2009For those of you who collected the 50 State Quarters the U.S. Mint finished producing lately, there’s a new line of quarters in the works. This time they will focus on “America the Beautiful,” with each quarter featuring national treasures like Yellow Stone National Park, and Hot Springs National Park and will be issued in [...]
Where Were You When You Heard the News?
Friday, September 11th, 2009Where were you when you heard the news about the planes slamming into the Twin Towers? I was dropping my youngest son off at daycare when the woman at the front desk told me that a plane had hit one of the towers. I got to work in time to see the second plane slam [...]
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