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Why it matters if your neighbor's struggling to pay the mortgage
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 9, 2009
...od that was out of their price range. These homeowners should suffer the consequences for their bad decisions.
Now, I've debated this whole thought process before. I've argued that most homeo...
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in Wangtam, on June 30, 2009
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Would you walk away from your mortgage loan?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 29, 2009
...ents often led buyers to homes that were too expensive for them.
Yet, the people making the final decisions were those homeowners who signed the mortgage papers. They knew — or at least they s...
Undervalued or Not, the Yuan is Not Likely to Gain Much
in China Venture News, on June 29, 2009
...eping is touch with reality is important if you're going to make good policy and good financial decisions.
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Saving Money on Your Car Insurance Tips
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on June 26, 2009
...insurance agencies love some people because they do not think to ask questions about what they are buying. One thing that you definitely want to talk about is what kind of auto insurance discounts you...
Windows 7 Pricing announced
in The CIO Weblog, on June 25, 2009
... the other hand, sees the licensing costs distinctly and is more likely to factor them into upgrade decisions.
I'm not throwing this out there as a sign of weakness on Microsoft's part or as ...
Don't believe the homeownership hype
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 24, 2009
...sellers may make more money selling their house than what they paid for it. But they'll also be buying a house whose value has risen, more than likely. So they'll be spending more to get their...
Mercy for Madoff plea
in Sox First, on June 24, 2009
Earlier this month, I did a blog entry looking at how Bernard Madoff's victims wanted the fraudster to get the full 150 year jail sentence. Many of the victims were not high flyers. Madoff ripped off widows and war veterans too. He didn't discriminate. Now, Madoff's lawyers are te...
How to Save Money When You Buy Auto Insurance
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on June 23, 2009
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Buying auto insurance is not the same thing as buying an electronic item in a store - although it would be nice if it were that easy. Instead, in order to find a good deal and save...
Did Sonia Sotomayor's mortgage views help send county into recession?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 23, 2009
... the members of the media who gleefully wrote story after story about how rich everyone was getting buying and selling real estate.
I suppose it's easier to find one villain in this story. And it...
Improving working capital through effective supply chain management
in Supplychainer, on June 21, 2009
...n using rule of thumb.
- Improve SKU forecasting methods
- Calculate financial impact of inventory decisions and link these two together
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Does owning a home have to be the American Dream?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 17, 2009
...rly couldn't pay them back. Real estate agents didn't do enough to deter their clients from buying homes that were obviously out of their financial ability. And real estate appraisers overvalu...
Just Koogle it.
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
...ly explicit images or pictures of women deemed to be immodestly dressed. Also you are restricted on buying taboo items including television sets, which are banned in orthodox households. I actually w...
Higher mortgage interest rates putting a scare in homebuilders
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 15, 2009
...sing slump hit and home values plummeted. Now rising mortgage interest rates threaten to reduce the buying power of these builders' top customers.
It's not easy being a home builder these day...
Other Money Saving Tips for Your Air Conditioning
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on June 15, 2009
... good idea to buy one that is much bigger than what the room size calls for. You can save money by buying the right size. While it will cool the room faster, you will find that an air conditioner that...
Book: Fluorishing with Food Allergies
in Allergies, on June 11, 2009
... I have to admit, I've stopped buying books on food allergies. My son has outgrown all but his peanut and tree nut allergies and my second-born does not seem to have any at all (we haven't ...
Hard times for logistics and transportation companies...
in Supplychainer, on June 11, 2009
...e logistics and transportation a hard time. To give some examples of the reasons:
- As people are buying less, there are less requests to transport products to retail stores.
- Manufacturing sector...
Save Money by Not Paying for Water
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on June 11, 2009
...s you more to get it, too. When you really think about it, this means that you could save money by buying the same foods - but without all the water added to them.
Some examples of products where wa...
Who would buy a newspaper?
in Sox First, on June 11, 2009
...e. But then, he has done the same for his own mastheads. Based on that, it's hard to see anyone buying a newspaper....
Create Your Own Ring at Amazon
in White Lace Wedding, on June 9, 2009
...re and awkwardness of having a salesman hovering over you. And because there are no overhead costs, buying over Amazon saves you money could be spending on your other wedding needs.
Try it for you...
Save Money by Buying Bulk with a Friend
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on June 5, 2009
...th a friend - each of you paying half - or some other arrangement.
This gives you the savings of buying in bulk, and allows you to get larger quantities of things that you may not need in bulk - but...
Mortgage giant Mozilo charged with fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 5, 2009
...Mozilo, people who did everything they could to take advantage of the housing market, good business decisions be damned....
PSP Go is More Tempting Thanks to UMD Trade Up
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 5, 2009
...s and LocoRoco with some regularity. For that reason alone, I had almost dedicated myself to not buying a PSP Go. Not only will the device cost more than I payed for my original PSP (as much as a Ni...
Is manufacturing dead?
in Sox First, on June 3, 2009
...bert Reich's blog on the future of manufacturing. Reich argues that the bailout of GM is just buying time. It won't create jobs and it won't save GM. Manufacturing jobs are disappearing ...
GroomPower.com For Grooms
in White Lace Wedding, on June 1, 2009
.... The site focuses on the groom's responsibilities - planning the honeymoon, writing a speech, buying the rings, and so on. The site is only a couple of months old, but so far we've received s...
Questions which should be answered when buying a mid-size ERP
in Supplychainer, on May 31, 2009
Supply Chain Management Review ha published a new whitepaper sponsored by Inside-ERP highlighting important questions which should be answered when choosing a mid-size ERP solution. It's worth taking a look at this piece and you can download it here . The document tries to create a balanced...
Time Warner Inc. Announces Plan to Separate AOL
in Wangtam, on May 29, 2009
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微软推出新搜索引擎 Bing
in Wangtam, on May 29, 2009
今天，微软推出全新搜索引擎 Bing ，力图借助语义识别技术更好掌握用户搜索意图，提供更符合需求的内容链接，向搜索引擎巨头 Google 发起挑战。
微软掌门人 Steve Ballmer 在今天的 Allthings D 大会上展示了新版的 Bing 搜索引擎，微软将会在下周三正式发布这一搜索引擎。Ballmer 表示，Bing 这个词语很容易被作为动词使用，显然是直指竞争对手 Google。
多家公司的统计显示，微软目前在美国搜索市场的份额已经下滑到了 10% 以下，与此同时，Google 掌控了七成，微软苦心积虑要进行合作的雅虎占据了两成。另外，微软的搜索份额还处于一直下滑的...
More bad news: Mortgage delinquencies on the rise
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 29, 2009
...en the housing market wasn't just doing well, it was booming. There were times when people were buying houses with the sole intent of quickly selling them at higher prices. Everyone, it seemed, wa...
Keep Tabs on Prices for Better Money Management
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on May 29, 2009
...r notebook will verify that you can save money on that item.
Sometimes, it may even keep you from buying an advertised "deal" that really isn't a deal, too. This little tip will help yo...
Buy Food in Bulk and Save Money
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on May 28, 2009
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Buying food in bulk is another great way to save money. Buying food in a larger volume often enables you to cut costs over the long run because most stores give a volume discount. ...
ROI Measurement and Misunderstanding
in The CIO Weblog, on May 26, 2009
...ents which are being controlled at such a level that they are being precluded from making their own decisions as to the best architecture for service delivery have worse problems than justifying SOA b...
National Venture Capital Association: Suggestions and Blind Spots
in TJ's Weblog, on May 25, 2009
...nd distributed in IPOs - improvements that would force some investors to hold IPO stocks instead of buying them to speculate on and flip quickly. And a final suggestion was that taxes on VC firms not ...
Save Money on Grocery Shopping by Buying Food – Just Food!
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on May 24, 2009
... people are, then food money needs to be spent on just food. The other things cannot be eaten, and buying too much of it can definitely hurt your food supply. Knowing how to save money on food is impo...
Microsoft Shuts Off Windows Live Messenger IM For Users In Countries Embargoed By The US
in Wangtam, on May 22, 2009
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How low will interest rates go? Who knows?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 22, 2009
Applying for a mortgage loan — whether it's a new loan or a refinance — sometimes feels like a big gamble.
Interest rates on the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage loan may stand at 5.1 percent today. But what if they drop to 5 percent tomorrow? Of course, they might go up to 5.3 percent, ...
Save Money on Groceries by Sticking to Your List
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on May 21, 2009
...our refrigerator. Then, the next time you go grocery shopping take this list with you and stick to buying only what you need. Watch out for those "extras!"
Also, before you go, look for cou...
Franchises: WYNTK
in Biz Plan Hacks, on May 19, 2009
...es do during a recession. To balance that I thought I'd point out this piece by Jeff Elgin on buying a franchise. Elgin looks at some things you should know about a franchise contract.
One of ...
Speed Sourcing - An Over-Reaction to Long Procurement Cycles?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on May 19, 2009
...n it comes to the critical need to maintain organizational integration around fundamental business decisions.
Even in tough times - no - especially in tough times, that old adage "haste makes wa...
Transformers 2 剧情细节
in Wangtam, on May 16, 2009
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• Apple Buying Eye-Tracking Devices
• Project Charlie - three secret AT&T devices bound for Best Buy
• Jeff Bezos, meet Tony Hsieh. Zappos Moving into Electronics. And More.
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Looking to buy? Your mortgage loan might be smaller than ever
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 13, 2009
...n Cape Coral and Ft. Myers, Fla. San Francisco and San Jose followed.
So if you're thinking of buying in Florida or California, now is a pretty good time.
Mortgage interest rates also remain low...
Why stricter laws won't work
in Sox First, on May 13, 2009
...e scale, such as what happened in the Soviet Union, if people don't practice making responsible decisions, then they lose their capacity to do so. It's like any skill, particularly a skill of ...
New Search Tool Aims at Answering Tough Queries, but Not at Taking on Google
in Wangtam, on May 12, 2009
...wo Holocaust denial groups. Is it enough?
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• Google News Gets An Update. Still Sucks.
• Google News Gets An U...
Navigating the new mortgage roadmap
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 12, 2009
...on my part. Today, my home is worth far less than what I paid for it.
But there was one benefit of buying a home in 2006: Getting a mortgage loan was simple.
Loan officers back then were still givin...
微软确认将于 12 月正式发售 Windows 7
in Wangtam, on May 12, 2009
刚才在洛杉矶的 TechEd 2009 会议上，微软 Windows 业务高级副总裁 Bill Veghte 确认，微软确认将于 12 月正式发售 Windows 7。公司旗下的另一款产品，适用于客户端及服务器版本的 Windows Server 2008 R2 也将于同期上市。
微软同时表示，将在今年 7 月向此次年会的参加者放出 Office 2010 的技术预览版。微软的一位产品经理 Ward Ralston 则表示，这并不意味着 Office 2010 步入了正式发布前的阶段。微软尚未公布该产品的发布日期。
微软在半月前推出了首个 RC 版的 Windows 7，这也意味着该...
Selling to Procurement Organizations
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on May 10, 2009
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I recently became interested in the issues that arise when selling to corporate procurement departments. A legal process outsourcing company that I'm associated with is cracking this nut, and the differences between the sales processes are night-and-day.
Like any good writer,...
More Ways to Reduce Your Food Bills
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on May 9, 2009
...l cut down on unnecessary spending. It will also enable you to save money because you won't be buying a lot of extra food - and you will have to make fewer trips to the grocery store.
This will ...
The Players Championship: DVD or Download?
in Eagle Par Birdie, on May 8, 2009
...ly boasts all kinds of streaming video.
Maybe I'm different from the average golf consumer but buying a DVD of one event is like buying a novel; I'll read it once and never pick it up again.
...
Microsoft needs LESS focus, not more
in The CIO Weblog, on May 8, 2009
...s to new markets the way that it used to. It's true there needs to be ruthless pruning and hard decisions made about where the company invests resources. That's always been the case and the co...
Save Money on Your Grocery Shopping
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on May 7, 2009
...t to buy more. Believe it or not, it may well be working on you, too. This is why you often end up buying more than you intended each time you go shopping. You can't save money when there is a rea...
SOX and complacency
in Sox First, on May 5, 2009
...en you do that on a very large scale, as occurred in the Soviet Union, they stop making responsible decisions. Like any skill, that falls away when it isn't used. Corporate governance needs an ove...
Animal Spirits by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller
in Sox First, on May 4, 2009
...in his book The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Keynes said investors based their decisions on "animal spirits" and a "spontaneous urge to action". Contrary to ra...
Buffett says newspapers have no future
in Sox First, on May 4, 2009
...d dramatically. They were only essential to advertiser as long as essential to reader. No one liked buying ads in the paper - it's just that they worked. I don't see anything on the horizon th...
Chrysler's Italian job
in Sox First, on May 1, 2009
...nking on an unprecedented shift in the US car buyer market. First, the deal is banking on Americans buying small cars and they have never done that in any volume. And secondly, small cars have never b...
Lost American Marques: Hupmobile
in Classical Drives, on May 1, 2009
...a pleasant ring to it but Hupmobile? Still, that didn't prevent more than a million owners from buying and enjoying these mid-size, middle-class, and often distinctive motor cars until the marque&...
Window 7 coming early, as expected
in The CIO Weblog, on April 30, 2009
...s give them more time to mull it over. The sooner 7 is out, the sooner organizations will be making decisions over whether or not to adopt it. Although it is an artificial deadline, it's an operat...
No recovery in sight
in Sox First, on April 30, 2009
With the US economy convulsing in its sharpest contraction since 1958 . down 6.1%, the Fed now seems to be sitting on the side lines. In its latest statement , the Fed said the economic outlook had improved "modestly" but that economic activity was "likely to remain weak for a t...
Luxury or necessity? It's back to the past
in Sox First, on April 28, 2009
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Is TV becoming a thing of the past? And is the recession changing our buying patterns? New research from the Pew Research Center's Social & Demographic Trends project suggests that yeste...
Future structural changes in supply chains
in Supplychainer, on April 27, 2009
...ntal risks are also playing an important role: High unemployment, a rising voice from consumers for buying local, as well as nd other political forces in China, Europe and the U.S.manufacturers to rev...
Study Finds Pirates Buy More Music
in P2P File Sharing, on April 24, 2009
...the industry wants to admit, and that P2P isn't the primary reason why other people aren't buying music. 73 percent of of respondents to the CRIA's survey said that they bought music after...
Dangerous economic optimism
in Sox First, on April 24, 2009
...e is slowing. Secondly, it can lull them into a sense of complacency where they won't make hard decisions on crunch issues like fixing the banks and ruinous deflation. So what to make of all the ...
Classic Car Collector Buys a Spitfire
in Classical Drives, on April 24, 2009
... think the prices asked for classic cars are outrageous, especially during economic hard times? Try buying a vintage aircraft . An airworthy two-seater Supermarine Mk IX Spitfire aircraft was recen...
TARP fraud investigations
in Sox First, on April 21, 2009
...s one reason why Barofksy's report recommends the US Treasury abandon its planned structure for buying the toxic securities, which include intricate bundles of bad mortgages and loans. That's ...
Oracle acquires Sun
in The CIO Weblog, on April 20, 2009
...ce database alternative MySQL, which Sun acquired early last year. This is somewhat akin to the fox buying the henhouse, and it doesn't bode well for corporate support of MySQL, which may put a cr...
Save More Money in 2009
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on April 16, 2009
...g costs. Generally, it starts with budgeting tools, and then includes coupons, looking for deals, buying with cash, and a few more. This is a good starting place.
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Buy This Not That iPod Nano Vs Samsung P3
in The Gadgets Weblog, on April 13, 2009
...9 and $199 respectively, but the P3 does offer a 32GB version for $299. With the iPod Nano, you are buying a 2 inch screen and a jog wheel. With the Samsung, you are buying a sleek 3 inch touchscreen ...
Warning: Twitter Hit By StalkDaily Worm
in Wangtam, on April 12, 2009
...Who's Buying
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New partnership to offer supply chain network design services
in Supplychainer, on April 11, 2009
...er of logistics services, announced recently that it has formed a strategic alliance with Automated Decisions, to provide a Supply Chain Network Optimization Service to the chemical industry.
Accord...
The great economic cover up
in Sox First, on April 10, 2009
...ad of trying to find out the real losses. Stop that, because you need good information to make good decisions, right? Follow what works instead of what's failed. Start appointing people who have r...
Easter egg and flower sales boom in recession
in Sox First, on April 10, 2009
...er and Easter. While there is a drop off in sales on more expensive items, people won't give up buying flowers. Anything that would make them feel better. A similar story with Easter eggs and Eas...
