Do we have a good excuse for not doing this in February? No, we don't. Please, accept our virtual apologies and enjoy our predictions for the closing price of SPY on April 20, June 15, and January 18 (2013)!

From the coding that never ends department, fixed the Feedburner script so that whenever it receives a '0' for one of the last 7 days it doesn't update the subscriber count. Of course, Feedburner had to go and test that theory by marking the subscribers as '0' for a whole day... and we'll be stuck at 131 subscribers for at least 2 more days. Well, it's better than when it was showing 81!

There is a ticking financial time bomb in the portfolio of many investors, especially those of us with a Day Job. This time bomb is scary because the way the product is purported to work is so different from the way it works in practice. What am I talking about? Well, you clicked the article (or scrolled in your RSS reader)... I'm talking about leveraged ETFs.

Yeah, I know, I've been too lazy to fix my php on the Feedburner subscribers to the right - so it fluctuates 20 or more readers a day. I'll get to it... maybe even today!

Before the primaries move on to Kansas and various territories (the Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Marianas), it's time to take a quick look back at how far the four remaining candidates have come - in both votes and delegates!

We recently talked about paradoxes with insurance and the lottery, but I'm not ready to give up on this topic just yet! I present to you this article which uses IRS data to try to answer: "What is the relationship between gambling and income?".

Most of those comments I've seen on this blog and others seem to imply that the lottery (and most other forms of gambling...) is a game only for the poor - even sometimes referred to as a 'poor tax'. Lucky for the naysayers, the IRS has compiled data which shows that Americans in all income classes (even the 1%!) love to gamble. Yes, in 2009, 284 of the taxable returns with over $10,000,000 in adjusted income had gambling winnings reported! So, dear readers, let's take a look at gambling in the United States...

Does anyone actually recognize that we just had a leap day? February 29 anyone? Whatever, call it March 0.

(... over his first term in office ... if you don't count inflation and population growth ... if you don't consider the whole ten year estimates ... if you count the extended 'Bush Tax Cuts' and AMT Relief in Obama's totals.)

Today we're going to follow up an article which I first delved into last year. Using BLS data, I detailed the pay gap between workers in the public sector and workers in the private sector. Public and private sector wages has become an increasingly politicized issue, so when the Congressional Budget Office tackled the topic, I had to read the report with great interest.

Man, that script I wrote with the subscriber count has been broken like all week (it likes to take the […]