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Fedspeak in Plain English: What Bernanke & Co Did Today
January 30, 2008
The Federal Reserve lowered the Federal Funds Rate by half a percentage point today (you’ll also hear people say that it was dropped 50 basis points… a basis point is just 1/100 of a percentage point). Wall Street seems happy, but how does this affect the guy on Main Street?
A Few Changes at AGTAM…
January 29, 2008
Hi everyone -
We’ll be going through a few changes here over the next few days, including a new theme, real-time market news and stock quotes from Forbes, video support, and more. Please bear with us. Thanks,
Bill Laboon
P .S. If you’re bored, here’s a great article about the current market by Jim Jubak up at moneycentral.msn.com.
Summary of the Candidates’ Tech Policies
January 29, 2008
Since so many people were interested in where the candidates stand on economic issues, I decided to put a summary up of other issues that I have researched. Today we take a look at where they stand on issues important to the tech community: things like net neutrality, net censorship, and copyright policy. We’ve lost a few candidates since the last time around - Duncan Hunter, Dennis Kucinich and Fred Thompson have all dropped out. Again, I’ll frame the question as an imagined answer by the candidate to the question,
“What do you feel are the most important issues facing the tech community, and what do you intend to do about them as President?” Answers below the jump…
Your First Portfolio: Beginning Your Investing Career
January 28, 2008
You’ve decided to start preparing for your future and invest your money in income-producing assets instead of stockpiling Mad Dog and cheap beer. You’re finally ready to start investing. It can be intimidating to start, but you can have a complete, well-diversified, and inexpensive portfolio quickly and easily if you follow these steps.
Using Google Trends to Predict a Recession
January 23, 2008
My brother had an interesting idea… why not use what people are searching for to see how the economy is doing? I did a little bit of research, and came up with the following incredibly unscientific experiment.
1) Put in various words into Google Trends associated with an economic depression, limit the area to the United States in the last twelve months, and see how many people have been searching for those words.
So what were the results?
