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Stay Away from those “On-Line, For-Profit” Schools

Remember the pet-rock fad? People were stupid enough to buy those “pet-rocks.” Surprisingly, the business itself was legitimate. There is another ‘legitimate’ business, which is essentially fraud: several for-profit universities in USA! Online education by the ‘for-profit universities’ is the next biggest fraud to be exposed. These schools are businesses. They sell “degrees.”  Nothing appears […]


Greenspan on the Hill: “Don’t Blame Me” (Again)

Greenspud was on the hill today and tried to distance himself from any responsibility for helping the banks rob you in the broad daylight.[Via NY Times] In his testimony, an unflinching Alan Greenspan fended off a barrage of questions about the Fed’s failure to crack down on subprime mortgages and other abusive lending practices during […]







Bill Fleckenstein on Heath Care, Fed Printing and More

Question: How do you solve alcohol addiction? Answer: Give the addict heroine! Don’t laugh – this is the solution of the US Federal Reserve Board for more than two decades. Bill Fleckenstein is a savvy investor, fund manager and an analyst. A decade ago, I had the pleasure of interacting with him on Silicon Investor […]


Funny!

The Smart people at Google never fail to surprise us on April 1st. This is funny. A different kind of company name 4/01/2010 12:01:00 AM Early last month the mayor of Topeka, Kansas stunned the world by announcing that his city was changing its name to Google. We’ve been wondering ever since how best to […]




MapQuest 4 Mobile Brings Free Turn-by-Turn, Voice-Guided GPS to iPhone

MapQuest® 4 Mobile brings over a decade of digital mapping experience to your iPhone® with unique features to help you get where you’re going. Try Voice-Guidance, our latest addition to Driving Directions, for a more hands-free experience! Few people know that MapQuest actually produced paper maps prior to becoming an Internet icon. In the future, […]