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Monthly archives for November, 2008

Sign Of The Apocolypse: $1.95 Gas!

Nov20
2008
1 Comment Written by jacob

As I was driving back from New Haven, I witnessed $1.95 gas. I haven’t seen gas this cheap in, well I can’t remember when. It realy feel good filling up my tank with $35 instead of $70.

Oil prices are now down to $49.55 a barrell, down from the summer high of around $147.00. That is so incredible for me. Just as the housing and credit bubbles have burst, so has the gas bubble. These prices have such a trickle down effect that it will end up effecting everything we as consumers come in contact with. Milk to snickers bars and everything in between should be lower because it won’t cost as much to ship them.

Hopefully now my McDonald’s double cheeseburger will go back to $1.00…

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Taking A Trip To Wall Street

Nov19
2008
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My brother Caleb and I have decided to take our chances in the stock market. Caleb wants to make some quick money, while I want to do some more long term investments. Caleb wants to buy General Motors (GM). Unfortunately for him, I won’t let him do that. He should have read my post about GM. I want to test my stock skills with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Yea, I can hear you know. Didn’t they collapse like four months ago? The answer to that is yes. But hear me out.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (FNM and FRE, respectively) are at their all-time lows. FNM is selling at $0.40 a share, while FRE is at $0.56 a share. That is down from their 68 week highs of over $60 a share! My plan is to invest a small amount – $500 – on Fannie and Freddie. These are companies that cannot, and will not, completely collapse. Once they return to their old dominance (in 2-5 years), Caleb and I will be sitting on an over $50,000 return. If we decided to continue to put money into them, the sky is the limit.

Maybe the best part about the whole thing is while CNBC has their Maria Bartiromo analyzing stocks, I have my Mari Bartolomeo.

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C++ Is At It Again

Nov19
2008
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What the heck… It’s 2:12am and I’m still up doing my C++ project. I hate this crap. Computer language is something that fanscinates me, but this is tough stuff. I wish my project was helping Geoff with our gadget, not writing code to get recursive functions and blah blah blah.

I have a feeeling it’s not gonna be a good day. Damn.

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Give The Guy A Chance…

Nov18
2008
1 Comment Written by jacob

I overheard a few of my friends talking about how they can’t wait for the next election. Me too. It was such an exciting time for the country.

But soon their attitudes shifted. Obama’s gonna do this, he’s gonna act like that. “I can’t wait for 2012 to get him out of there!”

Really guys? How about giving the Barack a chance? He hasn’t even been inaugurated yet and he can’t do anything right.

After 8 years of what I personally consider to be a failure – I’ll debate you all you want – the last thing this country needed was someone with the same ‘vision’ for America.

Regardless of if you’re a registered Democrat or Republican, black or white or Latino, man or woman, Christian or Jewish or Muslim, we all need to rally around the President-Elect to improve our country.

If he doesn’t do as he’s promised, then vote him out in 4 years. But in the mean time, try giving him a chance.

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