05th November 2009
The seven month sprint that made small cap and penny stocks the envy of The Street is beginning to slow. Or is it?
After outperforming much of the rally over the past seven months, it seems small cap stocks and penny stocks are taking a breather as ec...
16th October 2009
What Oprah did for book clubs, she could not parlay for Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics. That’s right, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) picked Rio de Janeiro as the hosts of the 2016 Olympics, knocking Madrid, Tokyo and bookies’ ...
30th September 2009
I love watching Law & Order. I love it when the police and lawyers are a little shy of concrete evidence and the truth hinges on whom you chose to believe. It’s always a matter of ‘he said, she said’. Do you believe the well heeled philanthropist or...
16th September 2009
Because my grades in high school science were so abysmal, my parents were robbed of the chance of adhering a “Proud parents of an honor roll student” sticker to the bumper of the car.
While I have come to love watching science shows on Nova, I als...
07th September 2009
I read a banner ad online the other day; it was from a financial guru selling his trading techniques. Interestingly, his very witty tag line goes something like, “predicting the stock market before it goes up.”
Clever I thought, he can predict the...
28th August 2009
I don’t really recall too many analysts predicting that the Western World would tumble into a major recession. Nor do I recall many economists thinking the credit crunch would amount to very much.
Two years on, most analysts quoted articles I read s...
04th August 2009
Dare I say, there are some people out there who, despite all the rave reviews, may actually skip seeing the latest (insert actors names here) romantic comedy. That’s a shame too…for there have been some romantic gems that have stood the test of time...
31st July 2009
Who doesn’t like to celebrate an anniversary with a well thought out gift? The tradition of giving a specific gift on a specific anniversary dates back to the Middle Ages and is most likely rooted in the underlying belief that ties certain luck-bringing...
15th June 2009
Economists and analysts have been waxing eloquence about the recession ever since it began; arguing about its genesis, when it started, when it will end, if and when the markets are going to bottom. Others have even argued about what the recession will lo...
05th June 2009
I received an email last Friday from pennypic.com, the free penny stock newsletter I subscribe to. I was quite excited too because they kindly told me to “enjoy and relax on you're (sic) long weekend, because we have a major MONSTER announcement coming ...
18th May 2009
Last weekend a friend was telling me over dinner that there was no recession. He pointed to the fact that there was construction going on all around his well appointed neighborhood.
In fact, he contended, the (non-existent) recession was probably the ...
