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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

McGraw-Hill Is Heading The Way of Kodak and I Just Can’t Wait For That Happy Day

The professor for one of my MBA classes assigned partial chapters from a book from McGraw Hill and the experience was absolutely horrid.   It then occurred to me that McGraw Hill has the same dimwitted executives that Kodak has and I can only imagine the discussions going on in the board room. What happened at [...]

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Saturday, January 14th, 2012

Who Came Up With Those STUPID Security Questions? Why I Don’t Shop at Your Website!

I have been fed up with all the username/password combination for websites for quite some time.  I literally have hundreds of usernames and passwords but what’s now annoying me even more are the moronic security questions websites now make you use for self-service password reset.  Who was the idiot that came up with this idea? [...]

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Thursday, January 5th, 2012

Is AT&T Ripping Subscribers Off?

I have three stories about my AT&T uverse cancellation adventure. First, it took four hours on the phone with over half a dozen people to cancel my account. I was on hold for 10 to 30 minutes at a time when I got disconnected or transferred to a dead phone. When I finally got to [...]

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Wednesday, January 4th, 2012

How To Cancel That Cable Subscription And Still Watch TV: Roku + Netflix + HuluPlus + Amazon Prime = TV Bliss

This week I will be canceling my AT&T Uverse subscription as I have found alternative methods of watching TV at home and on the road making cable subscription obsolete. This is also because I gave my kids an ultimatum, “you need to pick between iPhones or TV” and the kids chose iPhones. I will still [...]

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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012

How The TSA Damages The Economy But Amazon Helps Improve It

Over the holidays I had the pleasure of doing some personal travel and one of our stops was San Francisco.   We did a bit of site seeing and we did take in the vineyard country and I can sadly say that despite finding some really great wines, I did not bring any back.  Why?   Well [...]

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Sunday, December 11th, 2011

Where To Find The 1.75% Share Secured Loan Rate

I had a few people e-mail me and ask where they could find the 1.75% interest rate on the loan I recently wrote about and to be honest,  I thought it would be really easy but even the web didn’t simplify the search too much.    The first step is to visit your local credit [...]

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Monday, December 5th, 2011

How To Reduce Student Loans or Mortgage Loan Rates To 1.75% Interest!

So here’s something I stumbled upon at one of my credit unions.  I was contemplating taking a loan out to pay off one of my student loans who’s interest rate climbed to 6.9% and homey don’t like to pay interest that high!   I walked in to the credit union and asked for the loan [...]

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Sunday, December 4th, 2011

Another MBA Semester Down and Why MBA Programs Are Failing Society

It seems like an eternity since I started my MBA program and I’ve just completed another semester, at this rate I should be done in 2013 but I can already tell you that having completed about 70% of the program I clearly understand why the global economic crisis arose despite having more Ph.D’s, MBA’s and [...]

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Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

Trade of the Decade? Already Made $5,000 In A Few Weeks

I have been raking in the cash lately using my favorite system of trading and it seems the trade of a decade…perhaps lifetime is coming in January 2012.   With the European debt fiasco and the upcoming portfolio rollover in January this may be the best opportunity to trade the market.   I am personally [...]

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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

Black Friday Ads Reveal Problem With American Economy

If the American recovery is to recover then retailers and manufacturers need to focus more on innovation.   I got Walmart’s (not that I would ever shop there)  Black Friday Ad in the mail yesterday and it helped confirm my suspicions about part of the problem with the U.S. economy. The cover page shows a couple [...]

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