Yes, Sarah Palin gets herself in the news every now and again with her brain dead comments regarding healthcare and other social issues of our times.

Yet Palin, with a Down Syndrome child  of her own, should understand the plight of so many people who are turned down by the insurance companies with the “you’re fucked” clause, otherwise known as the pre-existing condition.

This standard bearer excuse of insurance company profit machines would be illegal in most developed countries since in most developed countries, healthcare is a birthright, not a privilege of those who can afford it. (more…)

Looking back to September of last year we are still down over 2000 points. Looking back to March the second of this year, we are up just shy of 2000 points.

So the market took six months to drop almost 50% and two months to claw back around 27%.

The big question is does one invest in the market now, hoping the momentum upwards will continue, or will the markets lose some of those gains as it stops to catch its breath…. (more…)

Yes, despite making friendly friendly with Russia and China today, and dodging the question as to who would win the world cup during a joint press conference with the British PM Gordon Brown, Obama knew what was really the most important event of the day.

As eleven American presidents before him have realised, that when you land on UK soil, you have tea with the queen of England! The conversation must have been electrifying!!

How many of us hear of a great new site from our friends and business aquaintences only to promptly forget about it the next day?

It took me nearly 11 years since the birth of the internet to find out what all the fuss was about. Everyone I knew had dial up access but it was not until I entered the job market and had access to high speed internet that I actually got myself connected at home. For a couple of years prior, I would always go to an internet cafe to check up on my emails….. (more…)

I remember the day when in 2005, my ex-wife and I bought our second home in Phoenix using the no docs loan route.

We “qualified”  with a $5000 downpayment for a $280,000 loan. Once we included some nice furniture and a pool, it increased the grand total to $310,000. This was in addition to the existing mortgage on our first home where we has a mortgage of $180,000.

I didn’t understand how we had managed to get the luxury lifestyle that normally comes a little later on in life. I thought things through a lot for a couple of weeks and realized that if the tide turned on the housing market we could be out of one if not two houses. (more…)