Monthly Archives: January 2004

Morning Entertainment

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If you have nothing better to do at the moment, and I hope you do, you can check out Pepsi’s opening salvo in their new rock the world ad campaign.
It features Enrique Iglesias, Pink, Beyonce and Britney who “…dare to be challenged and encourage their fans to do the same.” Sure they do…for a small fee of course.
While this is visually work friendly you will probably want to turn the volume up to fully appreciate the ad.
Via Ghost of a Flea.

Tonight’s Closing Thought

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From Paul Krugman(yea, I know some of you hate him):

Still, the big story isn’t about Mr. Bush; it’s about what’s happening to America. Other presidents would have liked to bully the C.I.A., stonewall investigations and give huge contracts to their friends without oversight. They knew, however, that they couldn’t. What has gone wrong with our country that allows this president to get away with such things?

Good Night!

Cleaning the Kitchen

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For those of you with the kitchen cleaning mentality of a group of college guys rooming together Here’s the good news :

Chuck Gerba, a professor of environmental microbiology at the University of Arizona who has studied bacteria in home kitchens, said that he found that people who had the cleanest-looking kitchens were often the dirtiest. Because “clean” people wipe up so much, they often end up spreading bacteria all over the place. The cleanest kitchens, he said, were in the homes of bachelors, who never wiped up and just put their dirty dishes in the sink.

Read the rest of the article for the bad news and to have a few current myths blown away.

The Fed and You

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Have you been wondering about yesterday’s drop in the value of your stock portfolio?
The national news gives you the shallow version: Fed changes words and values drop.
For the deep version with all the stories behind the story read Bilmon’s analysis. There is more going on here then you might imagine. Here is his summary:

This means the Fed is going to have to balance the demands of some politically powerful domestic interest groups against the demands of financially powerful foreign constituencies. And as central bankers in any number of developing countries can attest, this is never an easy, or pleasant, job.

We’ll all get to live through the results.