Patrick Havens on October 24th, 2008

Okay, I swear my mind isn’t just stuck on cars, but I ran across this article and thought it interesting… if not a humorous poke at the current financial condition.
As shelter is the largest single expense for most people, the ongoing “Financiapocalpyse” could see more people trading that Tudor for a four-door. As your guides [...]

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Patrick Havens on October 8th, 2008

I thought this was appropriate to show how the poor dollar feels falling as fast as it has.

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Patrick Havens on September 23rd, 2008

The Swedish crisis had strikingly similar origins to the American one, and its neighbors, Norway and Finland, were hobbled to the point of needing a government bailout to escape the morass as well.
Financial deregulation in the 1980s fed a frenzy of real estate lending by Sweden’s banks, which did not worry enough about whether the [...]

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Patrick Havens on September 23rd, 2008

And yes the All Caps is necessary, if you have beotheredd to ever read one of the scams.   It used to be Nigerians sending fake, “I need to get my money out” emails. But this one that is making the rounds today is sounding too close to the truth…
Dear American:
I need to ask you to [...]

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Patrick Havens on August 1st, 2008

A picture is worth $200 billion dollars. Borrowing by banks to cover demand deposits because their assets have less value than their liabilities. Graphic from the St. Louis Fed.
I’d be curious what it would be in relation to the value of money over the years. ie. I know that central banks where not [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 23rd, 2008

OK, in case you didn’t know I’ve been paying for a virtual server through dreamhost, and generally been happy except for now worrying I make enough to pay the MONTHLY hosting bill (yes it was nice to forget about it till yearly).  So I started looking around to see who is offering what, and truthfully.  [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 16th, 2008

I have come to the conclusion that I’m poor.  I heard that Madonna was coming to the Bay Area again from a LIVE NATION email and I had been wanting to go.  LOL heck I even reasearched to create a hard sell for it for the wife.  And I even learned a few things like
in [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 5th, 2008

At least one Gas Station Owner has a sense of humor.

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Patrick Havens on June 10th, 2008

…and want something more to kick you over the edge? I recently switched this blog over to private servers from Dreamhost and they gave me some codes to allow friends (or acquaintances) to get a few extras if they sign up and use a special one time code.
* They will get four [...]

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Patrick Havens on April 7th, 2008

The President of the United States doesn’t actually get paid a lot.  Most of their wealth is put in a trust while president and they make most their money afterwards.  The office was made more as a servant of the people thing.  But that said… even I had to laugh at the information below.
A Prostitute [...]

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