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Mid Week Funnies 23 May 2007 | 01:00 pm
Time for our weekly review of news from around the world in the form of editorial cartoons! ==== The administration seems to have been able to ignore all the losses in Iraq until the recent politica...
Mid-Week Funnies 17 May 2007 | 05:42 am
The president, already suffering in approval due to his handling of Iraq, fed the flames surrounding his party even more by using only his second veto ever to deny a budget requiring metrics and repor...
Weekly look ahead 14 May 2007 | 05:57 pm
The recent roaring climb on wall street has some people opening up champagne. Iran is still building nukes, but wall street doesn't care. Economic growth is at its slowest in 4 years while earnings ...
Firday Tech Files 11 May 2007 | 04:37 pm
== Vudu Box is Netflix without the mail == This new box from Vudu Labs is probably worth watching. It downloads movies off the web so that you can watch them on TV. That's a similar notion to the App...
Mid Week Funnies 9 May 2007 | 07:22 pm
At this point I don't think anybody in Washington can complain about others making political hay out of Iraq. Has anybody NOT used that for political gain yet? Four years after George Bush unveiled t...
Weekly look ahead 7 May 2007 | 03:49 pm
Charts are below. My apologies but no analysis right now, as I am dealing with an ongoing medical problem.
Mid Week Funnies 2 May 2007 | 04:52 pm
Time for our weekly review of non-financial news in the form of editorial cartoons from around the country. ==== Bush has had some unfortunate timing lately, extending troop tours the same week he r...
Weekly Look Ahead 30 Apr 2007 | 10:37 am
Last week saw strong market gains despite surprising and negative economic information. This makes it hard to predict what will happen next. There is a lot of economic news coming out this week and a...
Economic Poker 28 Apr 2007 | 04:29 am
The recent run-up in the market has had me questioning my judgment that cash is the best place to be right now (review: cash accounts currently pay just over 5% risk free). The stock market used to b...
Mid-Week Funnies (a day late) 26 Apr 2007 | 04:38 pm
Sorry this is late, I was traveling for business and the airlines failed me. Here are the mid-week funnies from around the country! As always click on any image to view a larger version. ==== I have...
