“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…
February 2014
Jimmy Fallon and Will Smith: Evolution of Hip Hop Dance
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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…
Hot Links: The New 2 and 20
Your morning financial links, expertly curated.
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…
OMG, the CFP Board’s new commercial
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Be a Google Ninja: Tips and Tricks for Online Research
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Chart o’ the Day: Largest IPOs in World History
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More Fun with Snow
After this I promise I’ll be done with the snow thing for the rest of the winter…
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…