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Go Daddy no-no means No Daddy is no-goTuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 4:43AMHigh-ranking gripe nemesis nabbed by target Go Daddy has managed to effectively gag its fiercest critics by acquiring and then shutting down the high-ranking Go Daddy gripe site: NoDaddy.com.…

Will the focus of QE 3 be aiding home prices?Saturday, June 25, 2011 @ 9:44PMDear John: Don't you think that Quantitative Easing 3 is going to be some sort of direct purchase of real estate? QE 1 and QE 2 were an attempt to give the banks time to heal from the bad loans. Neither really worked to prop up housing prices. The...

Warren Buffett Lunch Bids Quickly Approaching Last Year's Record $2.6 MillionMonday, June 6, 2011 @ 7:45PMAfter less than 24 hours, bids for lunch with Warren Buffett are already approaching the record $2.6 million paid last year by an anonymous winner.

Howard Blum’s saga of the old West and the Yukon gold rushFriday, May 13, 2011 @ 11:18AMOther than pulp Westerns, few books deserve the appellation “rip-roaring” anymore, but Howard Blum’s “ The Floor of Heaven ” is one of them. A contributing editor at Vanity Fair, Blum has told with flair the true story of three men whose paths crossed in the Klondike, where the last great North American gold rush took place in the late 1890s. The reader has to turn more than 300 pages before the ...

FMX Connect Debunks The Reverse Psychology In Goldman's "Buy Gold" RecommendationTuesday, March 22, 2011 @ 9:18PMLate last week, Zero Hedge pointed out that Goldman Sachs had come out with yet another flip flop piece on gold, having recommended that clients should go long, then short, then long again, pretty much depending on which way the wind blows. We have long been skeptical of Goldman calls on anything, let alone gold, as the firm, just like JPMorgan is very much fundamentally conflicted any time it ...

Plain Talk: Guess why Walker wants to freeze self-supporting State Life FundFriday, March 4, 2011 @ 6:48AMIf you need a prima facie example of how this extremist Republican governor is taking the side of the big guys against the little guys, I've got one for you.

A great, though not new story about Prime Minister Pete Nice and baseball memorabiliaThursday, February 17, 2011 @ 2:32PMI was involved in a random Twitter exchange with Jason Collette and Kevin Goldstein from Baseball Prospectus today in which the subject of 3rd Bass came up. No, not the hot corner, but the hip hop group best known for the single “Pop Goes the Weasel.” Yeah, that was a long time ago, but neither…

HBT: Is there really a 'mystery team' for Lee?Monday, December 13, 2010 @ 12:29PMFirst there was Buster Olney of ESPN.com tweeting : “Remember: if you ever read about a ‘mystery team,’ it can only come spoon-fed from an agent who is trying to create leverage.”

Jon Heyman keeps banging the Cliff Lee “mystery team” drumMonday, December 13, 2010 @ 11:47AMThis morning several baseball media heavyweights took public jabs as SI.com’s Jon Heyman over his repeatedly reporting on a supposed “mystery team” joining the Rangers and Yankees in the mix for Cliff Lee. First there was Buster Olney of ESPN.com tweeting: “Remember: if you ever read about a ‘mystery team,’ it can only come spoon-fed…