Weekend Reading Links

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For your weekend reading pleasure a few interesting articles from around the globe about dividends, stocks, the market and other just plain interesting finance or economic oriented articles.

Blackberry… Ick

blackberry ui large Blackberry... IckI hate blackberry, not the company, just the device. In the world of finance and business the blackberry has become a mandatory device. While access to individuals has certainly increased as a result of this device, I am constantly challenged by the poor quality of communication one often receives when dealing with people who use them.

Blackberry = low quality communication

An actual example of a message sent to a blackberry user:

Bob the 14K form for dividend contributions, does it have all of the customer info? I have the customer coming to the office in an hour. Hope Anne and the family are well, are you still planning on getting away this weekend?
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Don’t Buy Things You Can’t Afford


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Anyone who wants to understand how our current economic condition came to be a reality need only watch this movie to appreciate how things came to be such a mess. The pervasive overuse of debt nearly brought the western world to its knees. The question we have to ask is have we learned anything?

Madoff Tips for Prison

madoff mugshot 100x100 Madoff Tips for PrisonToday Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 125 years in prison. To send him off here are a few tips for Madoff on going to prison, bullet points are borrowed from a prison blog Top 10 prison survival
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  1. Keep your mouth shut
    Shouldn’t be a problem Madoff ran his scam for years before he was eventually caught. In fact the folklore around Madoff was that if an investor cornered him at a public function and pushed him to talk about their investment that he would pickup the phone and have their investment canceled.

Market Insanity


comic Market Insanity

Doesn’t it feel this way sometimes?

Everything is amazing, nobody is happy

Every once in a while it is good to put things in perspective. Here is a bit of a laugh but there is a good point in there too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jETv3NURwLc
 
   

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