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Archive for October 2007

October 20th, 2007

DOW Drops Lots!!!

Always good news never sold a single copy of a newspaper.  When was the last time you heard the news broadcasts lead with “Everything is wonderful.  Details at eleven.”  When you hear that stocks are due for a correction or they had a big correction on this day in 1987, got get another cup of […]

By jim -- 2 comments

October 18th, 2007

Another Abandoned Gas Station on the Highway of Life

Best Buy is discontinuing the sale of analog TV’s.  That shouldn’t be a big deal.  I own and enjoy an HD TV.  Though, it wouldn’t kill TimeWarner to carry a few more HD channels.  It’s not like the event wasn’t well announced and coming.  Still, when the largest electronics retailer in the country decides that it’s […]

By jim -- 0 comments

October 16th, 2007

The Market and The Environment

The Nobel Committee not withstanding the marketplace will determine the impact of global warming.  Everything we hear on global warming is that it is bad.  Maybe not.  How can you tell?  The reaction on the world population on what they buy and sell will show you.
Small signs of rationality are beginning to show in the […]

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October 14th, 2007

Hype

The best hype going is the college polls, football or basketball.  If you follow them they don’t make much sense.  There seems to be some sort of style points associated with the wins and losses.  The University of Southern California lost last week and fell from 1 to 10.  Louisiana State University lost this week […]

By jim -- 2 comments

October 14th, 2007

Global Warming - marketing with respect

Regardless of what you think about the Global Warming issue, the science and the hype a significant number of people believe it’s a serious situation.  Playing the benefits of your product or service to that constituency is just smart business. 
You have to recognize that the people who believe in the global warming issue are sincere.  Respect that […]

By jim -- 1 comment

October 11th, 2007

When will real estate turn around?

Real estate will turn around, when you don’t hear or see saying anything about when it will turn around.  When everyone has given up hope, then it will have bottomed out.  You haven’t seen anything like that yet.  If someone tells you now is the time to get in, they are looking to sell you […]

By jim -- 5 comments

October 10th, 2007

National Insurance Swindle From Flordia

You knew they were going to try this.  Florida’s property owners don’t like the price they have to pay for homeowner’s huricane insurance.  The market tells them the truth, but they don’t like it.  You can smell the bad idea from here.  With political clout they got the State of Florida to be the primary insurer […]

By jim -- 1 comment

October 10th, 2007

First Commandment of Writing

In the ’70’s and ’80’s I was in real estate among other things.  I always thought that the people who made the most risk free money were those who wrote books about how to make money in real estate.   I still think that.  I also think that the way to make money in writing is […]

By jim -- 1 comment

October 8th, 2007

FEAR and RISK - You don’t know what you don’t know.

Ever since I got of B-school the opposite of fear has been greed.  When I was younger I was fearless in business.  I know because thinking back on what I did sometimes scares me now.  I was in real estate (good stuff, but illiquid).  I was in options, but never really knew how financially exposed […]

By jim -- 4 comments

October 8th, 2007

b5 business bloggers muse on FEAR

Read up on the thoughts from a variety of b5 bloggers on the subject of FEAR.
Yvonne Russell of Home Biz Notes ask you to consider that as a home business owner FEAR is a good thing! No, not that type of fear. We’re talking about F-E-A-R – Find Every Available Resource. Run through our FEAR […]

By jim -- 10 comments