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YIKES!! I'm seriously considering contract renegotiation...

I made an agreement with my wife when we got married. I’d take care of everything “A”, “B” and “D” through “Z.” She’d get just that one remaining letter, “C”. Cooking Cleaning Child Rearing Carpet Sweeping Canine Maintenance Cat Maintenance Car Care Car Refueling Car Insurance Car...

Yes, that’s the way it typically goes. A never-ending supply of rubes willing to throw their money at this type of venture will always exist. On the plus side, the original developer gets to pursue a dream and the rubes get to live in hope of eventual wealth that’s always just out of reach.

Apparently, many like to think a bubba can figure out how to do in his back yard what the entire world's combined engineering talent in well-equipped labs can't.

Here's a funny youtube item. Someone played with a DISH phone solicitor and recorded the conversation. It was then played on a radio station. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un_PjRXV5l8

Here's a link...

Nothing that is done now will affect the filing of your 2007 taxes.

I wish you luck. If you think now is a good time to buy, I suspect you’ll become even more ecstatic over the next couple months…

Sure looks that way. I just posted a note in the Pit that the DOW futures as of now (midday Jan 21) indicate it will open tomorrow at about 11,600. That’s down about 500 points from Friday’s close that ended a week that was down 500. Markets all over the world tumbled today, but we won’t see the...

Must have been a misprint. It's less than half a trillion (no small sum, of course) Here’s a link to the actual figures… http://www.treas.gov/tic/mfh.txt

When oil was $20 a barrel, everyone said our way of life would end if it got to $40. At $40 we all said we’d change our ways at $60. At $60 we said… (etc., etc.). Now that it’s at or near $100, I see few changes in the way we live our lives. People still seem to drive as much as ever and I...

I see that CompUSA is going bye bye... Washington Post article here (subscription required).

I couldn't find any reference to one item that will be the deciding factor for many - air conditioning (or the lack of it).

Driving habits are definitely hard to break, but I don’t agree that people will continue to buy the guzzlers like they have in the past. Some will, of course, but when it’s time for a new vehicle, most will be checking out the MPG figures. The fallout in the economy is hard to predict. The...

I do a good bit of short-term trading, including options. Options offer the lure of spectacular profits and losses and aren’t for the feint of heart. Many option strategies exist and I’ve been successful at losing money using each of them. :) The safest way to use options and a good way to...

It’s interesting to note how the gas price “comfort level” has changed over the last few years. Each time the price climbs, everyone bitches & moans and looks for alternatives or ways to use less. When the price drops a bit, the bitching stops, people feel relieved and resume their old habits...

Yikes! A heat pump unit isn’t much more expensive than one that’s A/C only. I’m amazed that they aren’t the norm, particularly in Florida’s mild climate. You’re not talking about window units, are you?

The move will certainly make people happy and drive stock prices up in the short-run, but we’ll have to see what happens after the euphoria wears off. The rate cut came at a very interesting time. Options expire on Friday, and the stock price rises have made many of them that would have...

They’ve got you over a barrel and you’re probably screwed out of that $6. Your wife’s assessment of how it happened makes sense. I’d certainly pay the fine just to stay out of trouble (you’re not a senator and such an admission of guilt should not affect your future employment… :)). But I’d...

While there are some protections for debit cards, credit cards are still far more protected. Debit cards are wonderful instruments for the issuers, saving them lots of accounting costs. I don’t see why prudent adult consumers who can control themselves would be interested, though. When my...

1964 VW Beetle – I traded it 3 years later for a new car. I must have been mistaken about the odometer reading, though. I could have sworn it read 5x,xxx when I exchanged it for the new car, but it read 3x,xxx when in the dealer’s used car section. I might have kept it if I realized it had so...

Don, Thanks for the insight. Have you been given an idea of how long the batteries are expected to last and what the replacement cost would be? In the early 1970’s I had to give a presentation on a topic of my choosing - I picked electric cars. After discussing the pros and cons, the final...

I thnk you will...

I didn't realize that the commercial wasn't being aired nationally. I suppose Mercury may not have a national reach. The commercial is on YouTube at this link: YouTube - Logan's Mercury Commercials II Several commercials show up in a row. Move the slider bar to the 2:00 minute point to...

Mercury Insurance has a commercial that shows the letter "M" in a corn field. A man suspects Mercurian aliens did it. The commercial ends with a tractor in the background. I wonder how many people in the general audience actually "get it."