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The Shoe Shine Boy

February 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I’ve been going back and forth with Guest Poster Dylan Ross on fivecentnickel.com about market forces and a key phrase in his post :”For every dollar won over the market, one must be lost”. Ultimately I’ve decided I agree with him, but as a result of the conversation I’ve had some interesting side revelations. […]

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Microsoft Buys Yahoo

February 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Tim Bray, as he usually does, has a very insightful point about the MS/Yahoo deal. Lets just say for a second that Yahoo has 1billion users. That number is probably high, but lest just say. Microsoft just payed $44.50/user for yahoo. In all likelihood the number is probably closer to 500 […]

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Interesting mortgage discovery

January 18th, 2008 · No Comments

I bought my house before I had 20% to put down on it. That meant that I had to either get private mortgage insurance (PMI) or take a second loan to cover the difference between my down payment and the 80% part of my loan. I chose the latter as it allowed me […]

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