I’ve received some emails regarding my recent post Ultra ETFs and Counterparty Risk. People are interested and amazed to learn there are ways to make money as the stock market drops. It used to be that one needed to short stocks directly or buy put calls in order to profit from a declining [...]
Stumptown Coffee cups coffee daily at 3 PM at their 12 Avenue location in Seattle. It is open to the public. Just head downstairs. On Sunday, the Seattle Coffee Meetup went. Below are two photos from the event.
Today Starbucks (*$) announced they have acquired the The Coffee Equipment Company which is the maker of the Clover coffee brewing system. This is a huge step forward in coffee. Being from Seattle and having attended both the SCAA and CoffeeFest shows in the last year, I am already familiar with the Clover machine. It [...]
I was testing to see if Google had starting indexing my new WordPress blog and I stumbled onto the Desert Sports web site, which talks about the MAS o Menos 100 bike race. It is a 100 K race on mountain bikes near the Big Bend National Park in Texas.
This race is calling to [...]
Last month in my post Ignore My Financial Advice, I said:
6- Only Bank with the Best.
Unless you’ve avoided the news for the past few months, then you are aware there are some banking shenanigans going on. Some banks have lots of toxic loans on their books. Banks can and will fail. Even though accounts are [...]
In a few previous posts, I mentioned using leveraged ETFs as an investment tool. If you own any shares of ProShares, ProFunds or Rydex leveraged funds, keep reading. The rest of you are free to go recess early today.
This weekend I read the prospectus for all three companies providing leveraged ETFs. A [...]
It amazes me why a talented blogger would use the BlogSpot service provided by Google’s Blogger. A blog is the intellectual property of the writer and yet brilliant writers and photographers will use their time and effort to direct traffic to the Blogspot server instead of getting their own domain and building their own [...]
