Is Time Running Out For Wrist Watches?
By Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP®
May 12, 2010
As a boy, I liked to unscrew the back of my wrist watch (and anyone else’s I could get my mitts on) to see whether the “17-jewel movement” advertised in tiny letters on the watch face really contained 17 jewels. Usually, only four or five tiny industrial-grade garnets (the “jewels” touted by watch marketers in my [...]
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May 12, 2010
As a boy, I liked to unscrew the back of my wrist watch (and anyone else’s I could get my mitts on) to see whether the “17-jewel movement” advertised in tiny letters on the watch face really contained 17 jewels. Usually, only four or five tiny industrial-grade garnets (the “jewels” touted by watch marketers in my [...]
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Steve Jobs Plays Big Brother
By Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP®
May 11, 2010
Imagine you have just bought a new DVD player. You’ve popped the popcorn and you are ready to enjoy a mindless action flick, or maybe a cheesy romantic comedy. Then you discover that the machine will not play your movie because the manufacturer does not approve of such low-quality fare. This is exactly the situation that [...]
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May 11, 2010
Imagine you have just bought a new DVD player. You’ve popped the popcorn and you are ready to enjoy a mindless action flick, or maybe a cheesy romantic comedy. Then you discover that the machine will not play your movie because the manufacturer does not approve of such low-quality fare. This is exactly the situation that [...]
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Sensible Measures In Europe
By Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP®
May 10, 2010
European leaders, with some outside help, have finally moved decisively to deal with the debt crisis that was rapidly spreading from Greece to the rest of the world. The measures announced last night make sense and should restore calm to global financial markets – for now, at least. The extraordinary steps agreed to by the 16 [...]
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May 10, 2010
European leaders, with some outside help, have finally moved decisively to deal with the debt crisis that was rapidly spreading from Greece to the rest of the world. The measures announced last night make sense and should restore calm to global financial markets – for now, at least. The extraordinary steps agreed to by the 16 [...]
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Read All About It: Newspaper War In New York
By Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP®
May 7, 2010
Where do New Yorkers turn when they need to know if the Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to cut subway service again, or if that new exhibit at the Guggenheim is worth seeing? Rupert Murdoch wants the answer to be The Wall Street Journal. The Journal, acquired by Murdoch’s News Corp. in 2007, recently launched its new [...]
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May 7, 2010
Where do New Yorkers turn when they need to know if the Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to cut subway service again, or if that new exhibit at the Guggenheim is worth seeing? Rupert Murdoch wants the answer to be The Wall Street Journal. The Journal, acquired by Murdoch’s News Corp. in 2007, recently launched its new [...]
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Mess In The Gulf? Blame Cheney
By Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP®
May 6, 2010
Well, at least we now know who was responsible for the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico. An opinion piece in The New Republic tells us we can blame former Vice President Dick Cheney for pushing the federal Minerals Management Service (MMS) to let those oil companies drill, baby, drill. Or [...]
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May 6, 2010
Well, at least we now know who was responsible for the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico. An opinion piece in The New Republic tells us we can blame former Vice President Dick Cheney for pushing the federal Minerals Management Service (MMS) to let those oil companies drill, baby, drill. Or [...]
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A Financial Thunderstorm, Not A Hurricane
By Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP®
May 5, 2010
The Greek financial crisis sent markets around the world reeling yesterday, as the soothing effects of the Eurozone’s $143 billion bailout package wore off after just one business day. If Greece falls, and then perhaps Portugal, will we be looking at the sort of global paralysis that set in when the Bear Stearns domino hit the [...]
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May 5, 2010
The Greek financial crisis sent markets around the world reeling yesterday, as the soothing effects of the Eurozone’s $143 billion bailout package wore off after just one business day. If Greece falls, and then perhaps Portugal, will we be looking at the sort of global paralysis that set in when the Bear Stearns domino hit the [...]
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Take My Power. Please.
By Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP®
May 4, 2010
Picture this: Your local electric company finds itself with too much power for its system to handle, so it offers to pay you to consume some of the excess juice. It sounds like a fantasy, along the lines of the 1950s promise that atomic power plants would make electricity, like water, “too cheap to meter.” (This [...]
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May 4, 2010
Picture this: Your local electric company finds itself with too much power for its system to handle, so it offers to pay you to consume some of the excess juice. It sounds like a fantasy, along the lines of the 1950s promise that atomic power plants would make electricity, like water, “too cheap to meter.” (This [...]
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YouPad, iDon’t
By Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP®
May 3, 2010
Apple’s new iPad tablet whatchamacallit (is it a minimalist computer or an overgrown cell phone?) is flying off the shelves and into the hands of buyers who are eager to put it to good use. I have not yet figured out exactly what that good use is. I keep asking myself: What would I do with [...]
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May 3, 2010
Apple’s new iPad tablet whatchamacallit (is it a minimalist computer or an overgrown cell phone?) is flying off the shelves and into the hands of buyers who are eager to put it to good use. I have not yet figured out exactly what that good use is. I keep asking myself: What would I do with [...]
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The Secret Bendable Straw
By Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP®
April 30, 2010
When she agreed to a June 25 appearance at the Stanislaus campus of California State University, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin demanded deluxe accommodations, a bendable straw for her bottled water, pre-screened questions, and plenty of privacy. Palin’s visit is sponsored by the nonprofit California State Stanislaus Foundation, not by the university itself. When state Sen. [...]
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April 30, 2010
When she agreed to a June 25 appearance at the Stanislaus campus of California State University, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin demanded deluxe accommodations, a bendable straw for her bottled water, pre-screened questions, and plenty of privacy. Palin’s visit is sponsored by the nonprofit California State Stanislaus Foundation, not by the university itself. When state Sen. [...]
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Israel Joins The OECD
May 13, 2010
In the interminable struggle between Israelis and Palestinians, any step forward by one side is automatically seen as a step backward for the other. Palestinians were, therefore, outraged this week when the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development invited Israel to join. But Israel belongs in the OECD, and allowing it to take its rightful place [...]
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