February 2014

Real Consumer Confidence Returns

“Watch what they do, not what they say,” is one of my favorite expressions. I don’t have a lot of time for sentiment polls – especially of the economic kind – as people are prone to give answers based on how questions are worded, are susceptible to mood swings based on what the markets were…

Introducing the “Hoover Dam of Solar Energy”

I’m not going to lie, a solar energy bull and a big fan of, well, America, this shit gets me pumped… via GigOM: Less than a hundred miles from the rim of the Hoover Dam, just outside of Las Vegas at the edge of dusty San Bernardino County, sits a symbol of how the sun…

The Best and Worst Thing About Investing

A lot of new investors assume that managing money is like golf – where Tiger Woods whips the amateur who steps out on the course with him 100 times out of 100. But it’s not like that at all. In investing, unlike golf, the amateur can crush the pro for an appreciable period of time. That’s…

What We’re Up Against

  A quarter of Americans surveyed could not correctly answer that the Earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around, according to a report out Friday from the National Science Foundation. The survey of 2,200 people in the United States was conducted by the NSF in 2012 and released on Friday at an…