Our economy will survive.  Despite the FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) about our future, we will be fine.  It will just take time.  The devil is in the details with our recovery though.  Do we let the market sort it out, or have our government try to save us.  The consequences of either situation can […]

I’m not much of the fair type.  Rides are fun and all but things are too derned expensive there.  With the recession and the financial news lately, everyone in financial services is tightening their belts.  If you aren’t yet bought, you might be.  Or if you’re buying, you might still lose your job.  Everything is […]

If you want to talk about lipstick on a bulldog just take one look at the California Raisin House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi.  Every once in a while she wakes up from a puddle of drool and barks at the neighbors.  By now no one notices because she never bites anyone.  Back to sleep Pelosi…
Remember when […]

Welcome to the first of many installments of Economic History.  The series will focus on history during a specific political period, as often times economic cycles coincide with politics.  We will start the series with Bill Clinton.
The Clinton years started before he took office in January of 1993.  There may never have been any Clinton […]

Poor Joe Biden.  This guy is smart, charismatic, and truly loves his country.  But like our current president, he should never be in a leadership position.  The problem with campaigning politicians is they are forced to talk to people all day.  Eventually they lose control and just start talking nonsense.  McCain has done it, Obama […]

Remember yesterday when I talked about Wachovia remembering my original post about them hunkering down?  Looks like they hunkered a bit too far.  To the template!
What Happened?
Amid the fallout of the WaMu failure and takeover, rumors about a Wachovia failure came to the front.  The funny thing about these failures is they’re self-fulfilling.  Over the […]

I received an email this weekend from Lolly.  Lolly, is a phisher, she wanted me to help her transfer some money out from Holland.  Feel free to send Lolly an email like I did.  Here’s my response:
Lolly!
Thanks so much for reaching out to me, I’m in the perfect position to help you out.
In […]

I doubt that name would stick, its too long already.  I like the name of WaMu, but Washington Mutual is boring.  Expect this purchase to eliminate the WaMu brand altogether.  
So once again, we do the format of the financial crises analysis:
What Happened?
WaMu (slogan: “Whoo Hoo!”, no joke) was one of those banks that […]

I do have a few readers from overseas places like Canada, Mexico, and Wyoming so I want to clarify that this is American Football.  I’m talking 350 lbs 6′7″ diabetics pushing eachother around football.  Not your silly game where you actually use your foot.  Just kidding, I love “soccer” and played it quite a bit […]

Remember some weeks back I did a weekend edition on Qvisory?  They are basically an AARP for my generation (18-34).  They have a blog, and up until September 23 it was a pretty good blog.  But they seem to think I know what I’m talking about and asked me to re-post some of my blogs […]