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BIZ

Your President Is Lying About a “Strong Dollar Policy” – Why Dollar Weakness Matters

I couldn’t help but notice today that Pfizer started the trend we’ll see from every multinational today blaming lower 2012 forecasts on a stronger dollar (CNBC).  Pfizer has lowered their revenue projections by a full $200 Million.  Two Hundred Million Dollars!  … due to a stronger dollar.  And that’s just one company.  A strengthening dollar [...]

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How the Ratings Agencies Complicit in the Housing Collapse Are Actually Saving the World

This is not a theme you’ll see in the mainstream press, but it’s the truth.  Unfortunately, you can’t prove what “might have been” if it doesn’t come to be, but read on and tell me where I’m wrong.  The same ratings agencies that are fodder for everyone from Obama to European leaders for their utter [...]

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A Week in India: An Education…

I’m taking the final few moments here in India to jot some notes down on my impressions and learnings as an American who has only traveled to tourist destinations in Europe and some Carribean Islands as opposed to going to a developing country on business and taking some time to see the raw, unsanitized version [...]

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It’s Vegas Time – Strategy, Timing and Saving Money on the Trip

If you’ve been following the blog, you’re probably aware of the AutoCAD outsourcing business I started up with an old college buddy and we now have a third partner.  Well, to attract clients, we’ve been through everything from PPC advertising to blogging and social networking.  We’ve had decent success with all modes of client acquisition, [...]

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October Update: Blog Income, Outsourcing Biz, Real Estate

Since I’ve been reporting my online earnings monthly for some time now (see my Blogging Section for more tidbits and history), I’ve expanded my reporting to include my small business and the real estate deal I recently closed with a partner.  I’m coming off the worst income month of the year in September and I [...]

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Say Bye to Full-Time Employment: You’re Likely to be a Temp in the Future

There’s been a growing trend in corporate America whereby positions that were historically held by full-time employees are now being sourced to more “flexible” temporary employees.  They may be termed “contractors”, “consultants”, “independent contractors” or myriad other names, but the temp worker concept remains the same.  The reasons businesses are increasingly going the temp workforce [...]

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August Update: Traffic Up 31%, Earnings Up 17%, Outsourcing Biz and More

August was another great month for Darwin’s Money and my other web properties, as well as the outsourcing biz and real estate deal covered in more detail below. Traffic Traffic hit an all-time high this month on some “seeds” I’d planted a while back that sprouted.  It was a 31% increase from last month to [...]

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July In Review – All-Time Highs, Small Biz Explosion, Real Estate Deal and More…

I’m really excited to announced another month of record results for the Darwin blog network AND my small biz venture a buddy and I started up earlier this year.  Following on a strong June Update where I started opening up with more details, here are this month’s results: Traffic Traffic hit an all-time high here [...]

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My Barber is a Multi-Millionaire – Here’s How He Did It

I’ve been going to the same barber for a few years and we usually get to talking about the economy, investments and such.  He doesn’t openly brag about being a multi-millionaire, but it’s plainly evident based on our discussions that he is one.  He’s somewhat a case study in The Millionaire Next Door: Surprising Secrets [...]

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June Earnings, Traffic and Outsourcing Biz Update – It’s a Whopper!

June was another GREAT month for the blog, my new small business and me personally.  I’ll get right into it. Traffic Traffic at Darwin’s Money was down just a bit from the prior month, but no biggie.  What’s going on there is I derive a fair amount of traffic from organic search and while it’s [...]

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