Friday, May 30, 2008

In the slideshow 10 Most Expensive States to Buy Gasoline, which state was No. 3?

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In the slideshow 10 Most Expensive States to Buy Gasoline, which state was No. 3? Answer: New York

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10 Most Expensive States to Buy Gasoline

With crude oil prices driving around $130 a barrel, the cost to fill your gas tank will rise. See if your home state ranks among the top ten most expensive. (Prices and ranks are as of May 20, 2008 and are based on figures from the American Automobile Association's Daily Fuel Gauge Report.)









Thursday, May 29, 2008

How did Sports Biz blogger Darren Rovell feel upon learning tennis star Ashley Harkleroad posed for Playboy?

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How did Sports Biz blogger Darren Rovell feel upon learning tennis star Ashley Harkleroad posed for Playboy? Answer: sorrowful

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Leaning Tower of Pisa has stopped leaning — first time in 800 years

Will people go all that way to Italy to see "The Unleaning Tower of Pisa"?
clipped from blogs.usatoday.com

Engineers declared today that their efforts to keep Pisa's tilting tourist attraction from toppling have paid off.

For the first time since the 12th century, the bell tower has finally stopped moving and is safe from the law of gravity for the next three centuries.
clipped from torre.duomo.pisa.it

The Tower of Pisa is the bell tower of the Cathedral. Its construction began in the august of 1173 and continued (with two long interruptions)
for about two hundred years, in full fidelity to the original project
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Heard on The Street: Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews

Don't laugh. Dr. Crack already sold 30,000 copies of this book. You might want to take a look or send this post to your buddies via email.

Good way to get an edge if you need it.
I used to wonder why interviewers at top
firms supplied me with their interview questions to put in a book to sell to their job candidates.
Now I understand that they do not mind if the questions are public knowledge because job candidates
who make a serious investment of time in revising the questions deserve to be hired!
The latest edition also includes about 125 non-quant actual interview questions plus
a section on interview technique
As of January 2008, roughly 30,000 copies have been sold with
about 10,000 going to people at investment banks, trading firms, and money
management firms.
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Home Prices Across the Country Graphics

Click on the charts or buttons to enlarge. Top interactive graph is very interesting.

You can also use the links embedded in the clip.
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Free 41-day ‘Visit’ to the North Pole in 44 Seconds

You can experience 41 days of conditions around the North Pole in 44 seconds
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Global Warming Skeptics Plot 'Carbon Belch Day'

Follow the link in the clip for the complete story.

Conservative grassroots group Grassfire.org wants people to waste as much energy as possible on June 12 to break free from "carbon footprint guilt."
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Ex-Press Aide Writes That Bush Misled U.S. on Iraq

Follow the link in the clip for the complete story.
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated "political propaganda campaign" led by President Bush and aimed at "manipulating sources of public opinion" and "downplaying the major reason for going to war."
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Bush misled U.S. on Iraq, former aide says in new book

In a book due out Monday, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan offers a blistering review of the administration and concludes that his longtime boss misled the nation into an unnecessary war in Iraq.

Follow the link in the clip for the story.
clipped from www.ajc.com
In a book due out Monday, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan offers a blistering review of the administration and concludes that his longtime boss misled the nation into an unnecessary war in Iraq.
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In the last paragraph of "Stocks Don’t Like Obama" Larry Kudlow concludes that:

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

$135: The Biggest Loser

Follow the clip link for the complete story.
clipped from www.cnbc.com

As oil surpasses $135 for the first time you know who benefits – but who's the biggest loser?

As far as Jon Najarian is concerned, the U.S. casino business is in the biggest trouble. The economic downturn is already hurting casinos and high oil as it relates to the airlines is going to be crippling for the industry as people rethink their summer vacations to Vegas, he said.

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High Oil Prices Spur Thoughts About Bubbles,

Follow the link for complete text of this article.

Don't bubbles usually occur after several years of people crying "wolf"? When they burst you usually see a massive short capitulation and then hear those famous words, when it gets back to (name a price well above the market) I'm getting out.
clipped from online.wsj.com
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A bubble, says The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, "refers to asset prices that exceed an asset's fundamental value because current owners believe they can resell the asset at an even higher price."

But figuring out whether a commodity exceeds its fundamental value is difficult: Because there is no income stream, there is no equivalent to the price-to-earnings ratios that people use to value stocks.
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Realty Check: Who sparked Countrywide CEO Mozilo’s “disgusting” e-mail reply?

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Realty Check: Who sparked Countrywide CEO Mozilo’s “disgusting” e-mail reply?
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Monday, May 26, 2008

11 Billion Reasons to Buy These Stocks

clipped from www.fool.com
It has to be the most sobering statistic related to the spike in gasoline prices. The Department of Transportation reported this morning that Americans covered 4.3% fewer miles -- which equals 11 billion -- on the country's roads in March than they did a year earlier.
Netflix
(Nasdaq: NFLX): The movie rental giant is an obvious winner. It has 8.2 million subscribers enjoying DVD rentals without having to step out much beyond their front porch.
Amazon.com (
(Nasdaq: AMZN): If heading out to the strip mall for a movie is a challenge, it's going to be even harder to work up the nerve to hit the local shopping mall.
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Friday, May 23, 2008

Crude math: $10 equates to $610 million

Investors might want to take note. I wonder how much the Federal government is paying in higher fuel costs across the board?

Imagine the cost for state and local governments just to cover the rising fuel prices for school buses.

I really don't think much thought is going into all the higher cost issues for school systems across the country. We should be reading about budget crunches all across the country soon.

School lunches?
clipped from news.yahoo.com
he U.S. Air Force operates the
"world's largest airline" and every $10-per-barrel increase in
crude oil boosts its annual operating costs by $610 million,
Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne said on Thursday.
The Air Force's bill for aviation fuel was about $6 billion
in fiscal 2007, Wynne told a defense industry group. He
declined to predict what the total would be for 2008.
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Market Insider: How did Birinyi's Jeff Rubin rate Boone Pickens' forecasting?

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Market Insider: How did Birinyi's Jeff Rubin rate Boone Pickens' forecasting? Answer: Insight most investors lack


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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Innovative Businesses Using Google

This a a great example of how to use Google to improve product offerings. Maybe this will give you the next great idea. Check out the video site for future reference.
We're always amazed by the innovative ways businesses use Google Maps to improve their product offering, whether it's creating heat maps to help users visualize home price trends or enabling them to search for that all-important coffee shop near their hotel. News sites are no exception; for example, KPBS and the Los Angeles Times used Google Maps back in October to report real-time on the spread of the San Diego wildfires.
I'm happy to announce that we've launched a video site to spotlight these organizations and their great work with Google Maps.
Check out what Kayak has done:
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CNBC Bonus Bucks Answers for Thursday, May 22, 2008

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Web Exclusive: Which stock did Will Muggia recommend specifically for CNBC.com readers? Answer: Chesapeake Energy

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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Lost and found: Errant parrot tells stranger his name and address

Occasionally you find something funny on the OnDeadline blog. Funny?
clipped from blogs.usatoday.com

Two weeks ago, an African grey parrot flew his Tokyo-area coop and was rescued by police, The Associated Press reports. But he was no stool pigeon.

"I tried to be friendly and talked to him, but he completely ignored me," policeman Shinjiro Uemura said.

After a silent night in the pokey, he was taken to a local veterinary hospital. A few days later, he struck up a conversation.

"I'm Mr. Yosuke Nakamura," the bird said, including his complete home address. He also sang for the staff.

Police investigated his alias.

"We checked the address, and what do you know — a Nakamura family really lived there. So we told them we've found Yosuke," Uemura said.

The Nakamura family told police they had been teaching Yosuke his name and address for about two years.

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In “How To Prosper On Retiring Boomers” which stock did Jordan Kimmel link to the post-WWII generation?

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In “How To Prosper On Retiring Boomers” which stock did Jordan Kimmel link to the post-WWII generation? Answer: Research in Motion

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On Tuesday, Jim Cramer said it was "time to ring the register" and sell. But what railroad stock was he BULLISH on?

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On Tuesday, Jim Cramer said it was "time to ring the register" and sell. But what railroad stock was he BULLISH on?
Answer: CSX


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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

In "Short Stories," what did Fast Money trader Pete Najarian call "the most confident plays"?

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In "Short Stories," what did Fast Money trader Pete Najarian call "the most confident plays"? Answer: Coal and NatGas


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Reality Check: Consumers Unlikely to Pay Much More for Green

But at least they have their customers down cold: 31% said none of their ratepayers would pay a dime to fight climate change
clipped from blogs.wsj.com

People really don’t want to pay much more each month to stop global warming, regardless of how many movies Al Gore makes. One-third of Deloitte respondents said they’d be prepared to pay “zero” extra to fight global warming. Slightly more, 36%, said they’d cough up 5% more if it meant their juice was emissions-free—5% being what you leave a really lousy waiter. About a quarter of the 1,000 adults Deloitte interviewed said they’d be willing to add 10% or more to their power bill for clean energy. Here’s the bad news: The main climate-change proposal in Congress could add between 11% and 64% to those bills to reduce emissions.

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