Archive for April, 2011
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2011Here is the latest giveaway from AllFinancialMatters: Although everyone can use the information in this book, it’s really geared toward the business person wanting to harness the power of social networking with sections addressing such areas as: • The social networking opportunity • Facebook • LinkedIn • Twitter • YouTube • Blogging Like all his [...]
The Atlas Shrugged Movie Trailer. Looks Good!
Monday, April 11th, 2011Here’s the trailer. I think it looks good. Will you go see it?
My Latest Best Buy Experience
Monday, April 11th, 2011*Begin Rant Now…* Saturday afternoon, my 6-year old daughter was playing a PS3 game on our 3.5-year old Samsung flat screen (Model: LN-T5271F if you’re interested). All the sudden the TV went off and would not come back on. I unplugged it and it plugged it back in. Still no power. This concerned me. Later [...]
Are Stocks Overvalued (or Undervalued)?
Monday, April 11th, 2011I read an interesting article in the WSJ over the weekend that asked whether or not markets were overvalued and then pitted Robert Shiller (and Robert Arnott) against David Bianco (and Jeremy Siegel). Shiller claimed the market is indeed overvalued by his measures. What are his measures? Here they are as explained in the article: [...]
An Enlightening Piece on Paul Ryan’s “The Path to Prosperity”
Friday, April 8th, 2011AFM reader, Veritroth, left a comment with this link on my last post: No Path to Prosperity: Ryan’s Incredulous Budget-Balancing Proposal, Preposterous Unemployment Estimate It would be well worth your time to read that piece. Very interesting. If you don’t have the time or the desire to read the whole piece, scroll down to the [...]
Paul Ryan’s “The Path to Prosperity” Budget
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011I’m reading this right now: The Path to Prosperity UPDATE: Interesting quote from page 15: Skewed political incentives have proved especially damaging in the Medicaid program. Because the federal government matches every state dollar spent on the program, states do not pay the full cost of expanding benefits. At the same time, every dollar in [...]
Question of the Day From an AFM Reader: Deficits and Jobs
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011I received this email yesterday: JLP, Maybe you can help me. I keep listening to the news on how important it is to reduce the US budget to make new jobs. Can you please explain to me and your readers how reducing the budget deficit will generate jobs? Thanks, Paul I’m no expert on deficits [...]
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