I have two friends who had significant cashes yesterday in poker tournaments. Neither did as well as they wanted, but both achievements are very notable. First, Matt Matros finished 7th at the WPT North American Championship in Niagara Falls. The tournament had 454 entries,…
I really wish the candidates would agree to more debates. The standard 3 really doesn’t cut it for me, and 1 VP debate isn’t enough either. Barack Obama and John McCain met at Hofstra University last night. I think Bob Schieffer did a pretty…
Biggest one-day gain in Dow history. Just when I think I have things figured out, tomorrow will be a completely different day with the bond markets re-opened. On a separate note, here’s a good article on Apple. I’ve been an Apple guy for about…
Thanks to someone reading the blog, I now know that *just* the bond market will be closed today. This means that Treasury bonds won’t be bought or sold, so I have no idea how the market will react to that. For that matter, I…
We saw the worst week of our lives on Wall Street this week. While this should have been scary for me, the sum total of my investments are some sizable IRAs, which I’ve had enough discipline not to check the balance of. After the…
Thanks to David for sending me the link to this really good article. Basically, the reporters contention is that Mccain’s campaign “gets” what the media needs and wants as it covers the campaign. Will this get McCain any votes? Probably not, since I believe…
This has definitely been a scary few weeks. I have a friend who had to declare bankruptcy and shut down his restaurant. I have friends and family that have lost thousands of dollars a day over the past few weeks. And a month later,…
Obama and McCain faced off in the second debate last night. It was a town hall format, which I definitely think favored McCain. There’s no question Obama is a better orator than McCain. Equally so, McCain is better at talking to an individual, connecting,…
From the opening bell, this was a slaughter. Seattle kept us out of the end zone once in the first half. The best part of this was Hixon stepping up during Plaxico’s absence. Amani Toomer will always be a consistent producer for us, but…
For those of you that don’t know (I can’t figure out who that might be), I’m a bit of a frequent flyer mile geek. Over the past 5 years, I’ve amassed well over 2 million points/miles, and they’ve bought such things as: 2 upgrades…