Posts under ‘politics’

The Smarties candy commercial is on. There’s blue ones. There’s yellow ones. There’s red ones. I just like how they got a bunch of young people to sing parts of the same song in their own different style. It’s a catchy tune. originally performed by Sly and the Family Stone called “Everyday people”. We are [...]

I don’t know about you but when the president of the United States starts telling everyone that they should be buying stocks you have to wonder. If Warren Buffet was wrong just a few months ago when said the same thing and the market began to unravel last November, why should we listen to Obama [...]

Now that the American Banks (and companies) have all announced further losses, more huge job cuts, closures and scandals, one can only assume that the asian markets will be hurt just as bad. Japan has already announced the same due to their heavy dependance on foreign sales and exports. It’ll be back to the 90’s [...]

Obama’s move to limit salaries and bonuses for companies receiving taxpayer funds seems like a no brainer in the political popularity game and one wonders why it was never put in place in the beginning. Why are such high salaries expected by executives when they’ve allowed their companies to get into so much trouble. One [...]

Last week I sold the BAIDU $120 JAN 17th PUT OPTIONS just a couple of days before they expired for a tidy sum. I averaged approximately 50%. Option contracts expire on the third friday of every month. My goal was to only trade them. I had no intentions of exercising them even if they were [...]

Many people have made fun of George Bush over what has come to be known as Bushism. That is his botchery of the english language. Here are some of his famous quotes throughout the years.
-”The fact that they purchased the machine meant somebody had to make the machine. And when somebody makes a machine, it [...]

Beautiful crystal flakes fill the air and cover the ground in a blanket of feathers. The temperature drops down and so does everything else. More and more companies announce layoffs, postpone projects, cancel projects. Retailers hope for the rush of xmas shoppers when the weather steps in to trap people at home. Forget the shopping. [...]

A couple of months ago, canadians were wondering why we were being forced to go to the polls for an election when Prime Minister Stephen Harper was just elected not too long ago. In fact a little over two years. I didn’t realize this but in Canada, there is no set length of term. Stephen [...]

As I look at the canadian online website ‘www.canoe.ca‘ splashed across the main page was the results of the american presidential elections. Back during the canadian elections, I don’t think this canadian website had as much graphics and splash for our own election. Regardless, Barack Obama has won what I figured was an easy victory. [...]

The US federal treasury dropped the interbank lending rate a half percent to one percent and the US prime lending rate is now the same as it is in Canada at four percent. The next meeting for the bank of Canada is on December 9th. OPEC announced a cut of 1.5 million barrels of oil [...]