Textbooks are ridiculously expensive, and publishers love to pull tricks to force the purchase of new editions whenever possible. This school year, save loads of cash using these textbook-buying methods. Photo by quirkyartist In a nutshell, you’ve got four ways of obtaining textbooks; from most expensive to least expensive, you can: buy new, buy used, rent, […]
Chickens are coming home to roost at for-profit schools whose shares are publicly traded. For the last several weeks, the stocks have been week. Last week the stocks have take a turn for the worse. Today Strayer University was down as much as 15% . The impetus for this downfall is a report from the […]
Two days after I said that Feds are continuing their war on savers, one of the Fed governors came out and more or less agreed with me. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Thomas M. Hoenig, the Fed’s longest-serving policy maker and one of 10 people who decides the interest rate borrowers pay on […]
Making predictions is a suckers’ game. (Believe me, I know). But Brett Arends of WSJ summarizes some serious concerns faced by the market. This week’s bone-rattlers may be making you wonder” and says: “way too many people are way too complacent this summer. Here are 10 reasons to watch out.” And without further ado… The […]
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I want dignity before happiness – for, it precedes happiness. This disturbing news comes to you via Huffington Post: More than a thousand people gathered Wednesday outside a metro-Atlanta shopping mall in hopes of being placed on a waiting list for federal housing assistance. Fights broke out, children […]
Long before Before Jim Cramer became a TV icon, he used to participate on Silicon Investor bulletin board. Circa 1998-2000 I had a few nasty exchanges with him. I once told him (paraphrasing), “Jim, when history is written about the Go-Go 90s, you will go down in the books a icon of the cheer leading […]
With current financial turmoil entering its fourth year, it is time to reflect on things that got us here. Today Ben’s bandits at the Fed announced that they will buy US debt (“in small quantities”, yeah – right!) to stimulate the weakening economy. Call this quantitative easing 2 or plain old printing, it only means […]
Aug 5, 2011 Update On the heels of the 512 point drop in DOW yesterday, one would be tempted to tune to CNBC for hand-holding – forgetting the fact that CNBC is one of the enablers of bubblonomics, a cheerleader for failed policies, and a mouth piece for fraudsters. First, listen to what Jim Cramer […]
Thank you to all those of you that expressed concern with regards to my safety. I would to take this opportunity to clarify some of the distortions that have been put out by several media houses in the last 24 hours. I have been working on getting my book translated for over 3 months and […]
[Developing] Ladies and gentlemen, TRS may have won the by-elections by spreading misinformation and lies, stoking the emotions and by orchestrating hate against people of Rayalaseema and coastal districts. Spineless leaders of major political parties played into the hands of TRS rhetoric and handed them a victory. All this proved only the obvious – people […]
Jim is a straight shooter. He is one the best minds there is who has uncanny knack with commodities and macro trends. I pay attention whenever he talks. You too should pay attention to this veteran and ignore other pigs who always promote the Street on CNBS. He echoes my sentiment, “European Stress Test is […]
The equation I mentioned above relates to the psychology of people staying away from India. We are excited to come here (Away from our country) and study and then initially miss our family and later we decide to stay? Money, comfort versus family, friends, relatives and hometown and our own nationality. Does one realize the […]
Along with hardware upgrades to their Mac Pro, iMac, and Cinema Display lines, Apple unveiled something entirely different for owners of their desktop computers: a fully functional, stand-alone “Magic Trackpad” that offers the same multi-finger control of the MacBook trackpad. It’s likely the first move by a major manufacturer to push finger controls for screen […]
It really hurts me to say that I agree with Newt Gingrich, but I agree with him in calling Obama administration being “incompetent,” with respect to firing Shirley Sherrod. It hurts me even more to agree with Fix News: “The fact is, Obama Administration forced Sherrod to quit.” True. Based on what? Based on some […]
Impressive stuff… feels great to see browsers to be developed in India. In the CEO’s words: The Epic Browser is the first-ever web browser for India and the first product from the software company Hidden Reflex. Hidden Reflex is a software product startup founded by Alok Bhardwaj in 2007 and based in Bangalore. Alok, who […]
