Buds Blog

Its Nice To Be Squeezed Except If You’re Short

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:42:56 +0000

March 9, 2010: Today we celebrate the bottoming of the market crash of 2008-2009. With Dow Jones Industrials Average index up 60% from that low, the experienced observer of market price appreciation in a recession is becoming wary that the underlying forces working in our economy like: The Government Stimulus($780 Billion most of which [...]

MARKET ECONOMICS VERSUS GOVERNMENT CONTROLS

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:17:44 +0000

This short attempt at humor infuriated those who think Tiger Woods’ “Mea Culpa” press conference last week closed the issue and future references to an action he or his wife actually or allegedly took that night in November should be off limits. Meet the Press Host, David Gregory; asked him “Do you expect people [...]

Interesting Comments From The Left

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:07:49 +0000

This is a video from a women who simply does not get it!

It May Be DeJa Vu All Over Again

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:25:58 +0000

February 11, 2010: Elizabeth Warren (1), the Chairwoman appointed by Harry Reid in the fall of 2008 to lead the Congressional Oversight Panel formed to oversee the Seven Hundred Billion Dollar ($700,000,000,000) Toxic Asset Relief Program (TARP), has been an advocate and champion for the “middle class working family” for the past ten years or [...]

Obama: “You Mean There’s No Such Thing As A Free Lunch?”

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:57:31 +0000

Brad Schiller is an effective professor of economics at the University of Reno, Nevada’s College of Business. I say this because like most people, during my 50 years in the financial services business world, I have lost much respect for many teachers in our Universities twisting the minds of students about how the world really [...]

How Jobs Are Created

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:49:23 +0000

If you listen to the words that our President, the Congress and many in the Media use to describe their solution for getting the unemployed back to work, you hear the claim that we are not putting enough of the Taxpayer’s money into funding the development of industries to replace our dependence upon fossil fuel, [...]

The Arrogance Of Power

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:17:13 +0000

January 19, 2010: It seems when a politician is elected to office these days something takes over their common sense, if they ever had any. The attitude of President Obama and our Congressional Representatives and Senators that they deserve to be treated special just for being in office is patently absurd. Proper [...]

WHY IS THE GAME OF BRIDGE SO MUCH FUN

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:44:06 +0000

  Dottie the bridge player Unknown to most of the under 50 year old generations, the game of bridge is the most popular card game in the world.  Created from the century old English game of Whist, Bridge was changed by Harold S. Vanderbilt back in 1926 to a game involving bidding and play to fulfill a contract between [...]