The Situation with the Euro

August 17, 2010

  Over the past few months the European Union has had to cope with many of the countries that comprise it dealing with debt issues. Greece has been the most covered, with most major cable news channels showing the riots and turmoil that is going on within the country. These riots are due to the […]

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Strategic Default Community Blog

August 16, 2010

The Newly-launched community blog StrategicDefault.com offers hope to homeowners facing difficult decisions concerning their underwater homes. The website provides a place for homeowners to share their stories and find solace in knowing that they are certainly not alone in this struggle. StrategicDefault.com is dedicated to underwater homeowners –struggling to make payments, contemplating strategic default, attempting […]

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Hindenburg Omen – Don’t Believe the Hype

August 15, 2010

The Hindenburg Omen is upon us.  What is this dreaded scourge you ask?  Well, it’s supposedly the equivalent of financial Armageddon reigning down upon us mere mortals.  An otherwise obscure blind mathematician by the name of Jim Miekka has postulated that when several sets of financial factors and ratios all align negatively, that is the […]

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Darwin’s Portfolio – August Update

August 14, 2010

It’s been a while since I update on the long portion of my portfolio, so here’s how my stock holdings performed vs. the S&P500.  Since my last update on June 7, if you held an equal weighting of the stocks I have in my long portfolio segment, you’d have beaten the S&P500 handily for the […]

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10 Reasons to Bank on a Financial Engineering Career

August 12, 2010

You can’t stay with the head fakes that you’re seeing from management in the financial sector; don’t even try.  They’re still recovering from a massive high colonic delivered by the collapse of the derivatives market – vaporware with remarkable destructive powers.  But the federal government kept the trading apparatus intact, and investment is as important […]

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Would You Sell 6% of Your Future Earnings for $600,000 Today? Meet Someone Who Just Did

August 12, 2010

I read an interesting Inc. article recently on some budding entrepreneurs who were looking for funding a new startup but didn’t have the means to raise cash in a conventional manner.  So, they basically sold a percentage of their future earnings for upfront cash now.  This is a really interesting concept.  Businesses do this all […]

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