If you’ve been watching the news lately it’s all fear… financial meltdown, billions of dollars of wealth evaporating overnight… panic…. fear.  Coursing through the news, conversations at work, personal conversations… every where you turn, the sky is falling and it’s the end of the world as we know it.
So, first.  Turn off the freaking TV. [...]

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Well, you’ve probably heard about the multi-billion dollar loan package that Congress passed this last week.  I’m slightly ambivalent about this.  I wouldn’t have done it but I think I understand the basic workings of the financial system to understand why Congress did it.  Frankly, the extra 100+ billion of pork is a whole lot [...]

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