Saturday, August 14th, 2010
As we reported yesterday, the Yen has been appreciating against the Dollar recently. In fact, the Dollar hit a fifteen year low against the Yen on Wednesday of 84.72 to the Dollar. The Japanese wouldn’t be drawn on the subject of market intervention; ...
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Thursday, August 12th, 2010
Is your stock broker turning into a bank (or vice versa)? Just when you thought that you had everything (and everyone) figured out, people start messing everything up. I’ve worked hard to make sure that I’ve found the perfect banking relationship and brokerage relationship, but now my broker wants ...
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Thursday, August 12th, 2010
U.S. foreclosures continue to climb, indicating that real estate recovery is still a large issue New data reveals that the number of homes lost to bank foreclosures has risen since last year, demonstrating that the real estate market still has a long road to sustainable recovery. According to ...
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
A few years back, I stopped going to my local coffee shop to write and started going to the Starbucks across the street from me. It wasn’t because the coffee was better, or the people friendlier at the coffee conglomerate. It was because there was no internet access ...
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
If you were running a company and one of your employees went ballistic on a customer before loading up on booze and dramatically storming off, thus garnering national attention, what would you do? Probably not respond by a blog post that prominently features a clip from Office Space, the 1999 ...
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