Archive for March, 2009
Stimulus In Your Paycheck
If your paycheck is a little heftier in the near future, it may be the result of a stimulus bonus. Rather than the stimulus checks President Bush paid out which simply showed up at your door in the form of a check, President Obama’s stimulus bonus will be paid to many in the form of [...]
Timothy Geithner – 75th Secretary of the Treasury
Timothy Geithner was named U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in late January, taking over for Henry Paulson. Geithner is in the news more than past Treasury Secretaries because the economy has been in the forefront of the news lately. Geithner, “only” 47 years old, has taken some heat early on but has impressed some with his recent [...]
KFC. Potholes. Best Idea Ever.
KFC and potholes are two things you wouldn’t expect to see in the same sentence, but the chicken giant is attempting a brilliant marketing campaign that gives KFC exposure and helps drivers as well. Currently, KFC (yes, KFC) hired a road crew to fix potholes in Louisville, Kentucky. Their reward? They get to stencil a [...]
Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama is in the news this week because of South Africa’s controversial decision to deny him a visa to attend a peace conference. South African government would prefer that the Dalai Lama visit sometime after 2010 so as to postpone any potential political upheaval until the World Cup, hosted by South Africa in [...]
March Madness: Good Timing For “Lower Seeds”
When the college basketball tournament resumes on Thursday, here’s a topic you can feel free to use even if it hits a little below the belt: in Sunday’s Chicago Tribune, there was an article about the full schedule of vasectomies planned just before the start of March Madness. As strange as it sounds, it’s pretty [...]
Natasha Richardson?
By now, you probably heard that actress Natasha Richardson has died from complications of a freak skiing accident. If you’re like me, when you heard the story, you were probably thinking “the name sounds familiar, but I can’t think of anything she was in.” Richardson was married to actor Liam Neeson and is the daughter [...]
Trivial March Madness Notes
If you don’t know that March Madness begins today or don’t know that March Madness is the NCAA Men’s College Basketball Tournament, then you probably don’t care. If you already have your brackets filled out, there’s nothing I can say in two paragraphs that you don’t already know about the tournament. Instead, here are a [...]
Treasury Bills, Notes, and Bonds
The Federal Reserve agreed to buy a boatload of Treasurys hoping to keep rates low. Check out the financial websites for the reasons. Keeping it simple here, I want to focus on the difference between T-Bills, notes, and bonds. We often hear them cited, almost interchangeably, but many don’t know the difference. First, the similarities: [...]
