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Yes To Limiting Top Executives Compensation

I was particularly encouraged by the top executive compensation limits set forth in the Stimulus Plan, yet dismayed when they were eliminated or watered down. The Stimulus Plan passed by a 246-183 and a 60-38...

7 comments    investing financial advisor
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Risk/Reward, NOT Rewards, Rewards, Rewards

Bloomberg's morning's news reported that of 1,300 Wall Street executives canvassed about their 2008 bonuses, or lack thereon, 36% said they were disappointed in the amounts--expected more.  Stop...

0 comments    investing financial planning
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NO interest in ZERO interest

I, for one, have NO interest in zero percent return on my money.  Yet this weeks' traunch of 4-week US Treasury bills paying ZERO percent sold out!  Yes, you read correctly; people stormed the...

2 comments    investing interest us government
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Pigs get fatter...

Alex Rodriguez’s admission to steroid use from 2001-2003 yesterday was the latest example of tarnish and cheating and lying. Young? Not too young to cash the big checks! Stupid, yes, I’ll readily...

0 comments    investing cheating drug
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Media's headlines and labels are laughable.

What the media is writing about why the stock market is opening and closing at whatever level is pure guesswork, at best.  Have you noticed that often the same circumstance or instance is listed...

0 comments    finance women empowerment
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Moms Notice Love Stamps

I've really been running at top speed lately, and feeling the pressure of undone tasks more so than usual.  I finally remembered Mother's Day was rapidly approaching, so went shopping for cards (for...

0 comments    investments confidence invest
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It Pays to Watch your Weight!

Not YOUR weight, the weight of your US postal letters or packages!  As you know, today marks the third straight year's increase in the cost of the first ounce of first class mail at the United States Post...

2 comments    money computer weight
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Wise & Congruent Thinking

I’m back to congruent thinking again.  A few surprising events had caused me to rethink my mission and my message in light of these economic times.  I was led to some audio CDs that I’d gotten no...

1 comment    success language teaching
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Being “Madoffed” Renews Bag Lady Fears

The fear of becoming a bag lady is just that; a fear of losing everything in a heartbeat.  This abject fear has generally been conjured up in terms of a woman becoming widowed or suddenly divorced. ...

3 comments    investing investments madoff
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Tax Day Reliefs

Well the only good thing about a stock market decline is that we owe LESS taxes on the earnings...ahem, I mean on the lack-of-earnings.  In fact, it gets better.  We can (and should) take up to $3,000 of...

0 comments    tax taxes africa
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