tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56981015853257055712024-03-08T01:01:26.045-08:00Money Market Savings AccountBill Holcombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739555924105981023noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698101585325705571.post-35334855826466072272007-05-30T11:42:00.000-07:002007-05-30T11:44:16.712-07:00Bernacke's ability questioned?Houses are down the first quarter. Donal Trump blames it on Ben Bernacke for<br />interest rates being too high. He claims we need Alan Greenspand back.Bill Holcombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739555924105981023noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698101585325705571.post-75486591161615848352007-05-25T13:05:00.000-07:002007-05-25T13:06:55.177-07:00Save money, Stay home.Save your money by spending this weekend at home. Gas will average #3.20 nationwide.Bill Holcombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739555924105981023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698101585325705571.post-44839520713930605332007-05-21T11:45:00.000-07:002007-05-21T11:52:19.603-07:00Home Depot first, now Lowe's, announce their troublesIt seems that everything connected with houses is having trouble. Both Lowe's and<br />Home Deport profits are heading south. I guess people don't want to spend money on<br />the houses they already own or owe for.Bill Holcombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739555924105981023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698101585325705571.post-80356890950270333382007-05-17T10:44:00.000-07:002007-05-17T10:46:26.780-07:00Wolfowitz is Stepping DownWolfowitz seems not to be going quietly into that dark night. Did he really do<br />anything so wrong?Bill Holcombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739555924105981023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698101585325705571.post-31887992061476431852007-05-16T10:45:00.000-07:002007-05-16T10:51:01.126-07:00The Bull rages onThere seems to be no end in sight of the bull as he tears up Wall Street? A few weeks<br />the dow went over 13,000 for the first time. Now it has climbed almost halway <br />between 13,000 and 14,000. It may not be a good time to be buying a <br /> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Money+Making+Funds" rel="tag"><img style="border:0;vertical-align:middle;margin-left:.4em" src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=Money+Making+Funds" alt=" " />Money Making Funds</a>, but should you sell just yet?Bill Holcombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739555924105981023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698101585325705571.post-45118689893537378342007-05-14T09:44:00.000-07:002007-05-14T09:46:51.903-07:00Walmart Needs to Carry a Greater Variety of Computers, or just some computersJust what we need. More televisions being sold at Walmart? Why don't they offer more<br />computers and less t.v.s? Have you tried to get a computer at Walmart lately. It's almost<br />impossible, unless you want a laptop.Bill Holcombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739555924105981023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698101585325705571.post-68945915399343932752007-05-09T11:37:00.000-07:002007-05-09T11:39:24.375-07:00Go greenGo green and save money too! and you can do it at your local Walmart. Buy the new kind of<br />light bulbs that lasts much longer and use 25% less power. Cut down on this Global Warming<br />crap.Bill Holcombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739555924105981023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698101585325705571.post-68599615700841630122007-05-08T12:49:00.000-07:002007-05-08T12:51:14.289-07:00Tougher to qualify for Home MortgageThere will be less mortgage loans to people who are a risk credit-wise.Bill Holcombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739555924105981023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698101585325705571.post-59983047804241284092007-05-04T12:07:00.000-07:002007-05-04T12:10:14.591-07:00The Queen Visits in the SouthThe Queen is visiting the Southland, and tomorrow she will attend the Kentucy Derby.<br />Though I wouldn/t be my <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Money+Market+Savings+Account" rel="tag"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.4em; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" alt=" " src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=Money+Market+Savings+Account" />Money Market Savings Account</a><br />on Teuflesberg, I sure hope he wins.Bill Holcombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739555924105981023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698101585325705571.post-29800690213524476032007-05-03T11:03:00.000-07:002007-05-03T11:07:52.190-07:00Invest in Dow JonesSome predict that the price of oil will skyrocket if we pull out of Iraq, and Islamic Extremists<br />are in control of the situation. Will the Bancroft family sell their beloved Dow Jones Company?<br />Today may be a good day to take some money out of your <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Money+Market+Savings+Account" rel="tag"><img style="border:0;vertical-align:middle;margin-left:.4em" src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=Money+Market+Savings+Account" alt=" " />Money Market Savings Account</a><br />and invest it in the Wall Street Journal and it's parent company.Bill Holcombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739555924105981023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698101585325705571.post-6724060706255987912007-04-30T10:47:00.000-07:002007-04-30T10:50:02.133-07:00Will Prince Harry go or not?Will Harry go to Iraq, in spite of threats from Islamic radicals, that if he comes,<br />the only way he will leave is in a box? I know the Royal Family believes in duty,<br />but this war is so different from wars of the past.Bill Holcombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739555924105981023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698101585325705571.post-28779410641243815242007-04-25T13:15:00.000-07:002007-04-26T13:06:00.021-07:00Dow tops 13000Dow goes over 13,000, a milestone. But is this good?<br /><br />Since Fed sees our economy as making only modest growth lending rates will probably<br />be cut.<br /><br />Neither of these important facts affecting your <br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Money+Market+Savings+Account" rel="tag"><img style="border:0;vertical-align:middle;margin-left:.4em" src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=Money+Market+Savings+Account" alt=" " />Money Market Savings Account</a> I Bet.Bill Holcombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739555924105981023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698101585325705571.post-19700250543045351332007-04-23T12:54:00.000-07:002007-04-23T12:57:20.226-07:00NFCUNavy Federal Credit Union is a great place to bank, if you are or can be a member. The rates<br />are good for savers, and if you need to borrow the interest rates are good.Bill Holcombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739555924105981023noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698101585325705571.post-31147103697902580582007-04-20T11:28:00.000-07:002007-04-20T11:29:54.813-07:00Dow goes over 12,000 in Morning Trading.The Question is will it close today over 12,000?Bill Holcombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739555924105981023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698101585325705571.post-30155624640098130452007-04-19T12:26:00.000-07:002007-04-19T12:28:23.054-07:00Price of oil is down.Price of oil is down, interest rated on mortgages is down, the economy is slightly up.Bill Holcombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739555924105981023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698101585325705571.post-63140217945927908892007-04-18T12:00:00.000-07:002007-04-18T12:03:02.335-07:00Virginia Tech TragedyIt seems as if the whole nation is in mourning. It's truly sad for the survivors, who should be<br />having the best times of their lives. Now they must confront mortality, death, finality -<br />the hardest concept of all to deal with.Bill Holcombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739555924105981023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698101585325705571.post-49142345286985669622007-04-16T10:18:00.000-07:002007-04-16T10:20:46.258-07:00Maybe with some of your money market account, you should invest in<br />Banks. Citibank and Bank of America were two of the most profitable businesses in U.S. last year. And Wachovia increased its profit by 22%Bill Holcombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739555924105981023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698101585325705571.post-82124681559173315302007-04-12T12:47:00.000-07:002007-04-12T12:50:58.926-07:00Homes headed SouthBeware of the Real Estate Bubble. It may not keep get propped up any longer by lowering<br />interest rates. According to the Motley Fool the real estate people are finally stating the<br />obvious.Bill Holcombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739555924105981023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698101585325705571.post-21586500217964098162007-04-11T12:31:00.000-07:002007-04-11T12:40:06.173-07:00You should try to keep only a minimum amount in regular savings account. In your <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Money+Market+Savings+Account" rel="tag"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.4em; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" alt=" " src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=Money+Market+Savings+Account" />Money Market Savings Account</a> , keep at a minimun six months of expenses. The rest of your investments should be in the many types of <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Money+Making+Funds" rel="tag"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.4em; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" alt=" " src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=Money+Making+Funds" />Money Making Funds</a> , real estate, or businesses.Bill Holcombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739555924105981023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698101585325705571.post-69731209888205595412007-04-10T12:52:00.000-07:002007-04-10T12:55:07.716-07:00We should be doing it like the French!Well you might need to rob your <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Money+Market+Savings+Account" rel="tag"><img style="border:0;vertical-align:middle;margin-left:.4em" src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=Money+Market+Savings+Account" alt=" " />Money Market Savings Account</a> just to pay the corner gas station. Oil prices have become one endless rollcoaster ride. Perhaps we should have been more like France and invested in nuclear energy and extremely fast trains.Bill Holcombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739555924105981023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698101585325705571.post-16895571380989395722007-04-09T14:18:00.001-07:002007-04-09T14:21:49.300-07:00Well this Easter it was truly a miracle that we will be able to enjoy our peach cobler this summer. For it look as if the peach crop was going to get wacked in Alabama.<br />What ever happed to trickle down economics. I keep hearing of the price of oil is going down, yet every time I go to fill er up, the corner station has gone up, up, up, in price.Bill Holcombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739555924105981023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698101585325705571.post-26489769206862554392007-04-06T12:00:00.000-07:002007-04-06T12:03:17.329-07:00Unemployment is at 5 year low.Many people became employed this march. The stock market has gotten higher each day of<br />holy week.Bill Holcombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739555924105981023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698101585325705571.post-12187837039590092742007-03-23T12:00:00.000-07:002007-03-23T12:02:27.609-07:00Some things look brighter todaySales on homes were up last month. The price of oil is up, up, and away. The Dollar is getting<br />stronger.Bill Holcombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739555924105981023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698101585325705571.post-12684260078540192522007-03-22T12:48:00.000-07:002007-03-22T12:51:06.393-07:00GoogleNews Headline<a id="r-3-0i_1114680753" href="http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/22/news/companies/nbc_newscorp/?postversion=2007032214">CNNMoney.com</a><a id="r-3-0_1114680753" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9014058">YouTube gets a rival</a>Computerworld - 2 hours agoMarch 22, 2007 (Computerworld) -- In a frontal assault on rival Google Inc. and its wildly popular online video division, YouTube Inc<br /><a id="r-3-1i_1114607255" href="http://english.sabah.com.tr/9B56B3AF379E4ADBB63030BA805D0178.html">Sabah</a><a id="r-3-1_1114607255" href="http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_5496506">Oracle files lawsuit against rival SAP</a>San Jose Mercury News - 46 minutes agoBy Ryan Blitstein. Redwood City software maker Oracle filed a lawsuit today against arch-rival SAP, alleging "corporate theft on a grand scale" by the German software company.<br /><a id="r-3-2i_1114501410" href="http://business.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=443332007">Scotsman</a><a id="r-3-2_1114501410" href="http://www.moneyweb.co.za/mw/view/mw/en/page94?oid=81668&sn=Detail">EU ministers approve 'Open Skies' pact</a>Moneyweb - 1 hour agoEU transport ministers backed a landmark accord on trans-Atlantic air travel that will widen opportunities for both European and US carriers, notably at London's Heathrow.Bill Holcombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739555924105981023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698101585325705571.post-19485551483369681852007-03-21T09:06:00.000-07:002007-03-21T09:15:47.878-07:00From the Irish Examiner"Irish Examiner Breaking News -<br /><br /><br />20/03/2007 - 1:10:12 PMMcJob definition 'insulting to workers' McDonald’s is launching a campaign to change the Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of a McJob.The fast food chain says the current entry is “out of date” and “insulting” to workers.A McJob is described in the dictionary as: “An unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects, especially one created by the expansion of the service sector.”McDonald’s plans to launch a petition calling for the term to be changed.Its chief people officer in northern Europe, David Fairhurst, has written to a number of organisations seeking their support.Referring to the dictionary definition of the McJob, his letter says: “We believe that it is out of date, out of touch with reality and, most importantly, it is insulting to those talented, committed, hard-working people who serve the public every day.”<br /><br /><a href="http://adserver.adtech.de/adlink3.025711020890170ADTECH;loc=300;key=key1+key2+key3+key4;grp=2001" target="_blank"></a>The campaign follows the fast food chain’s publicity drive last year to tackle “negative misconceptions” about working for the company.It launched posters in 1,200 restaurants playing up the positive aspects of working for McDonald’s.The campaign used the phrase “Not bad for a McJob” to put a positive spin on the term.Responding to McDonald’s new campaign, an Oxford University Press spokeswoman said the term McJob entered the dictionary in March 2001.“We monitor changes in the language and reflect these in our definitions according to the evidence we find,” she said.<br /><a href="http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/index.asp"></a><a href="javascript:history.back(1)"></a><a onclick="NewWindow=window.open('http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/email/printer.asp?j=213865756&p=zy386646z&n=213866516&x=','NewWindow','toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600,height=500,top=100,left=100');" href="http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=4543890&p=45439x5&n=4543982&x=#"></a><a onclick="NewWindow=window.open('http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/email/email.asp?j=213865756&p=zy386646z&n=213866516&x=','NewWindow','toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=yes,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,width=350,height=360,top=100,left=100');" href="http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=4543890&p=45439x5&amp;n=4543982&x=#"></a>Bill Holcombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739555924105981023noreply@blogger.com0