While institutional investors are going bonkers over Wall Street and its constant switching between bull and bear markets, I’ve done pretty well so far. In fact, on Monday I hit a milestone with my investments – I reached over a 100% gain. For those of you who are not mathematically inclined, that means that (for example), I invested $10 into a company and now that investment is worth $20. And I think I’ve put together a decent strategy for this success.
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Early Morning Gym Session
Today was the first time since January 2008 that I went to the gym before going in to work. No, this wasn’t the end result of a well-laid plan to begin waking up earlier and getting my workouts in during the AM hours instead of when I get back from work each evening. I just happened to wake up early this morning and felt like going to the gym would be a good use of my time. And, as always, this trip provided some interesting observations on my gym.
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Recession Buster: Sega Dreamcast
Former TBLWrestling.com Web Manager, friend of JerseySmarts.com, and owner of MartyMusings.com Martin Hawrysko sent over a link this weekend that got me smiling and laughing a little bit. The link was to the video that you’ll see linked below.
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Corzine Not Doing Great in the Polls
Thankfully, New Jerseyans seems to be coming to their senses and it would appear that they are preparing to kick Governor Money Bags (aka Governor Corzine) out of office come November. An article in today’s Daily Record cited how an overwhelming majority of New Jersey voters agreed that our state’s budget is in critical condition. This follows a recent poll showing that Corzine is trailing his likely Republican opponent Chris Christie. The Daily Record article states:
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Redesigning Graduate Education
Generally, there are very few Americans who go on to get an advanced degree after their Bachelor’s Degree. Some go on to get Masters and others put in the extra time and effort to get a Doctorate. I made it through the Masters program and I’m constantly thinking about going back to get a Doctorate Degree, but I always wind up reading articles like the one printed in the New York Times the other day that questions the purpose of graduate education in today’s environment. It’s quotes like these in the articles that generally get me thinking twice:
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