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Why it could take years to recover
This article from the Motley Fool does a great job of explaining why we're not out of the wood
Don’t let your email address speak for you
Could your email address be saying something about you that you didn't intend?
What NOT to do in an interview
These interview videos are funny and explain why good people should not fear the higher unemployment rate - the cream will indeed rise!
We can all use a little levity right now, so take a look: www.howtonailaninterview.com/
Fraud Alert - protect your security code from this new scam
This scam was sent in by a Vjournal subscriber and is pretty slick since they provide YOU with all the information, except the one piece they want. Note that the caller already has your credit card number, but is looking for you to give them the 3-digit security code on the back that is not part of the number. How they accomplish this is so good even the most intelligent among us can be scammed. Read on for how this scam is conducted.
How small investors get screwed
As I write this on February 24, 2009, the DOW is sitting at a 12-year low of 7,200 and predictions from the brainiacs on CNBC are that it will go into a free-fall to 6,000 before it's all said and done. But I'm not selling, I'm buying - slowly, a little bit at time. Because if I've learned anything, it's that none of these talking heads knows for sure what's going to happen. So I use a different barometer to make investment decisions. My barometer leads me to believe gold must be nearing a bubble, and stocks must be nearing their lows.
What makes me think so? Take a look -
Don't buy into the lie
I can't stand it anymore so I have to speak up - Who the heck is clicking on these demeaning anti-wrinkle ads?
A culture of cowards
Female business blogger gets death threats for negative comments about batman movie.
An entrepreneur and business blogger for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, one of Seattle’s daily newspapers, recently wrote an admittedly frivolous post comparing the movie Batman the Dark Knight to risks in a business venture. In mere hours, fans of the movie cyber-attacked her for the “negative review”, one with such aggressive hate as to wish her gang-raped and shot. We have created a culture of cowards, those who hide behind the anonymous comment. The media used to castigate such cyber-bullying behavior - until its publishers also got seduced by the web traffic such comments help generate. Here are some tips to protect yourself from cyber-bullies if you're not 100% sure they'll kee their presence limited to cyberspace.
