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Personal
Vidal —
over 4 years ago
Stock market got you down this past week? OK, it hit me fairly hard too. FYI, here is an interesting option I discovered today.
Profunds Inverse Mutual Funds—a result that is the opposite of traditional mutual funds. For example, when the S&P 500® goes down by 1% on a given day, Bear ProFund should increase by 1% and UltraBear ProFund, by 2%. Conversely, when the S&P 500 goes up by 1%, Bear ProFund should decrease by 1% and UltraBear ProFund, by 2%. These funds are no load.
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Business
Vidal —
over 4 years ago
While I was researching some facts for by business plan, I stumbled upon the following from the U.S. Census Economic Bureau. It turns out that in the from the last US Ecomonic Census in 2002, Legal Services is almost a $200 billion dollar industry while Sofware Publishing is only about $90 billion, and Internet Service Providers and Web Search Portals about $20 billion. I found this quite disturbing, but maybe I shouldn’t be surprised.
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I think this is just weird but delicious so I am passing it on. I ate pork rinds as a kid, and I still enjoy them. If you like pork rinds too, then you will love microwave pork rinds. Yes, that’s right, there are microwave versions just like microwave popcorn. I had no idea anyone made such a thing! I happened to discover this snack a few months ago when I was at a client’s office. And while I haven’t seen these for sale in supermarkets, you can find them online from many vendors. They come out really good.
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For over the past year, I have been a Blackberry user, and last month I got a new 8700c. One of the really great things about this device is Cingular's new EDGE network which makes browsing the web in real-time finally possible. I've used it on many occassions to great effect including....
This weekend I went shopping with my daughter at the mall. She wanted to show me the Onyx ultimate hair straightener from herstyler.com.
It's a great product, which retails for $175. The salesman at the kiosk was very helpful and mentioned that we could buy it right now on sale for only $119 plus tax! My daughter really wanted it too. All might have been good for him except that I pulled out my 8700c and started cruising the web to get info on the product. I pulled up the company's website. I googled the product, and most interestingly, I found one on
eBay closing in 1 hour for only $32.99. I told my daughter, let's take a walk as I entered a bid using the Blackberry's web browser. When we got home 1 hour later, I had won. My daughter remarked to me, "It's so interesting that we went shopping at the mall, and ended up buying on the Internet." Indeed. This is the future, and not such great news for retail shops. More details to follow.
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