I like the seekingalpha.com site. ‘Alpha’ refers to trying to make a movement in the financial markets with no risk. It is very tough to do, almost a mirage. Unless you are Bernard Madoff, feeding all the rich yutzes some Kool-aid. A gent by the name of Richard Lounsbury, has written a very cogent analysis [...]
Browsing Posts published in January, 2009
creditkarma.com A credit reporting agency is just one big database. It is astounding to me how they can charge consumers between 15 and 40 dollars a month just for access to data. They charge companies pennies for the same type of data. Due to the three-company credit bureau oligopoly, there is effectively [...]
I have written several times about the inefficiency of the modern airline industry, and here is one more reason that I feel the airline industry needs to reinvent itself. It’s called a “Round the World Ticket”. It allows you to fly around our circular world, visiting places along the way. You have [...]
Computer software is fifty year old business. In its infancy, it helped win wars: one of the first uses for computers was to calculate artillery tables, so that cannon could be fired accurately. Today, computer software makes everything happen: we could not fly planes or run large enterprises without computer software. But it is the [...]
Peddlers of gimmicky diet products are now creating fake blogs. These very similar blogs, http://www.aubreysdietblog.com and http://www.tracysweightloss.com may sound authentic but are really a spamvertisement. They are both similar in design and likely to be run by the same person. Whenever a new medium comes out that a low marginal cost, with no possibility of [...]
