by Rupe | Oct 14, 2008 | Mad Musings
- CEO – Chief Embezzlement Officer.
- CFO — Corporate Fraud Officer.
- BULL MARKET — A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.
- BEAR MARKET — A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry, and the husband gets no sex.
- VALUE INVESTING — The art of buying low and selling lower.
- P/E RATIO — The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing.
- BROKER — What my broker has made me.
- STANDARD & POOR — Your life in a nutshell.
- STOCK ANALYST — Idiot who just downgraded your stock.
- STOCK SPLIT — When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves.
- FINANCIAL PLANNER — A guy whose phone has been disconnected.
- MARKET CORRECTION — The day after you buy stocks.
- CASH FLOW— The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.
- YAHOO — What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240 per share.
- WINDOWS — What you jump out of when you’re the sucker who bought Yahoo @ $240 per share.
- INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR — Past year investor who’s now locked up in a nuthouse.
- PROFIT — An archaic word no longer in iuse.
by Rupe | Oct 12, 2008 | Mad Musings
By Reva Bhalla (STRATFOR)
On the day after 9/11, U.S. President George W. Bush declared a global “war on terror.†Al Qaeda had first 
reared its head years before in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1998 U.S. Embassy attacks in East Africa and the 2000 USS Cole bombing, but it was not until the World Trade Center towers came crashing down that the global international security community became almost completely consumed with battling global jihadism. Professors of political Islam came out of the woodwork, Osama bin Laden became a household name, university students started pouring into Arabic language courses and, for the first time, terrorism became a national security priority. This era became known as the “post-9/11 world.â€
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by Rupe | Oct 12, 2008 | Inspiration, Military-Political
By George Friedman (STRATFOR)
* The Russian Resurgence
German Chancellor Angela Merkel went to St. Petersburg last week for meetings with Russian President 
Dmitri Medvedev. The central question on the table was Germany’s position on NATO expansion, particularly with regard to Ukraine and Georgia. Merkel made it clear at a joint press conference that Germany would oppose NATO membership for both of these countries, and that it would even oppose placing the countries on the path to membership. Since NATO operates on the basis of consensus, any member nation can effectively block any candidate from NATO membership.
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by Rupe | Jul 31, 2008 | Money Matters
Put aside the romantic notion that love conquers all — and pull out your calculators. Successful 
partnerships require a plan, a CFO (usually) and regular progress reports
By Liz Pulliam Weston
Marriage makes people richer.
Not all marriages, of course, and “richer” is relative. But overall, people who get married and stay married build significantly more wealth than single folks:
- The median net worth of married-couple households in the latest Census Bureau wealth study, conducted in 2002, was $101,975. For single men, median wealth was $23,700. For single women, $20,217.
- A 15-year study of 9,000 people found that during that time, people who married and stayed married built up nearly twice the net worth of people who stayed single. Even when all other factors are held constant — stuff like income and education — just the fact that they were married contributed to a 4% annual rise in these couples’ wealth…keep reading
by Rupe | Jul 22, 2008 | Mad Musings
– Baby boomer: born in ’44-’62
– GenX: born in ’62-’82
– Milennials: born after ’82
