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Honestly, What Did They Expect Employers to Do? 20 Aug 2013 | 02:34 am
Big surprise: Forever 21 Caught in Obamacare Controversy President Obama creates Obamacare. He makes 30 hours a week “full time” and forces employers to provide health insurance for “full time” empl...
S&P 500 5 and 10 Calendar Year Rolling Returns 2 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
One of my readers asked for S&P 500 rolling returns based on the calendar year instead of all the months. It does simplify things as it takes each report down to two pages instead of 19. So, here are...
The Grass Is Rarely Greener at a Different Car Insurance Company 2 Aug 2013 | 07:27 pm
I see ads all the time for that say stuff like: “Drivers who switched from State Farm to Allstate saved an average of $362 a year.” This reminds me of the time when I called my insurance agent to as...
Index Performance Update Through July 1 Aug 2013 | 10:25 pm
After the June hiccup, the S&P 500 and other indices I follow here on AFM kept on marching. The S&P 500 had a total return of 5.09% in July. In the 53 months since February of 2009, which marked the b...
An Updated Report on the S&P 5 and 10-Year Rolling Total Returns 24 Jul 2013 | 11:07 pm
Two people in the last couple of days emailed me, asking for an update on the S&P 500 5 and 10-Year Rolling Total Returns reports. Here they are: Each report has a cover sheet with some summary info...
How Companies Should Raise Prices 22 Jul 2013 | 07:32 pm
An article in today’s WSJ talked about how companies should and should not raise their prices. Honestly, I think the best way to do it, is just raise them. Don’t cover them up by trying to be sneaky....
The Miser 16 Jul 2013 | 09:29 pm
I read this in Robert Greene’s The 48 Laws of Power *: The Miser A miser, to make sure of his property, sold all that he had and converted it into a great lump of gold, which he hid in a hole in the...
Long-Term Care Insurance is Looking Like a Rip-Off 9 Jul 2013 | 09:09 pm
Rob and Katherine Deane thought they were being responsible by buying insurance policies to provide for care in their later years. Instead, the Michigan couple are encountering a growing gap in health...
Chart of the Day – Gold 8 Jul 2013 | 10:17 pm
I feel sorry for those who bought gold at the peak…
Useless Quote of the Day 8 Jul 2013 | 06:03 pm
Today’s quote of the day comes to us from the latest Kirk Karlgaard column in Forbes. This is the opening paragraph to his piece: In early 1966 the Dow topped 1000 for the first time. In August 1982 ...
