For those readers residing in Texas you may find the services of Dalworth useful in the near future. Dalworth Clean is a Consumer’s Choice Award winning carpet cleaning company that also specializes in wood floors, marble, fine rugs and allergy relief that serves Dallas, Forth Worth and the Sherman-Denison areas. Dalworth is locally owned since 1976, operates over 50 trucks, [...]

The SEC charged Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban with insider trading today. He is accused of selling 600,000 shares of Mamma.com stock in 2004 with knowledge of a future issuance of stock at a lower price that saved him over $750,000 in potential losses. I have to wonder why these multi-billionaires feel the need to take risks like this over [...]

Simply sign up for an account at Virtual Bank through a referral e-mail I send you and you can earn $20 for making a $100 deposit. Best of all, for each friend you refer, you get another $20 up to a maximum of $1,000. The account is free to open and has no on-going fees. The $20 bonus will be [...]

It’s only a matter of time before the recession that has gripped the European Union stretches across the Atlantic and hit home. With gas prices dropping like a rock I think that consumers will be more inclined to open their wallets a little further this holiday shopping season. Retail sales in the U.S. dropped 2.8% in October, which I didn’t [...]

I am the recipient of occasional annoying phone calls from numbers I don’t recognize. While my phone number is listed on the National Do Not Call Registry, somehow my phone continues to ring from salespeople and cold callers. I do not answer calls from numbers I do not recognize, in my opinion if it is important the person calling will [...]

I am absolutely shocked at the words coming out of Washington right now regarding our nation’s banks willingness to lend. Lawmakers are pressing the largest banks to lend money much more freely to spur consumer borrowing and increase consumption in order to jumpstart the economy. There is only one glaring problem with this plan: that’s how we got in this [...]

I filled up my car today and paid less than $2.00 per gallon for the first time since at least a year or two ago. It’s been so long I can’t even remember exactly when prices were this low. I took a picture of the price on the pump to show everyone. The price of gas here in Michigan has [...]

Wells Fargo announced its intention to issue $10 Billion in new stock to help cover the cost of acquiring Wachovia. The Nov 33 Put options I purchased a couple weeks ago were for this purpose exactly. Wells had announced last month they would be seeking to raise up to $20 Billion and it was obvious that when the shares were [...]

Barack Obama made history tonight as the first African-American to be elected to the office of President of the United States. At only 47 years old, Obama is also one of the youngest elected presidents in history. [tags]barack obama, president, united states, democrat, election, shaun carter[/tags]