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This is hilarious! =========================== By Matthew Fitzgerald Every single one of us has made mistakes with women. We've been conned, duped and dazed by physical attraction. We've made fools of ourselves by kissing the feet of females who treated us like dirt. We've wasted countless hours and spent small fortunes chasing after women who lied to us and used us, and turned out to be rotten. But do we learn from our experiences? No. Every time we think it's going to be different. We think if we just try harder, or do one little thing differently, the result will change. Well, it's not going to change. If you keep pursuing the same kind of woman, you'll just get your heart broken over and over again. Keep a watchful eye out for the following list of women, and you'll be one step closer to curing yourself of habitual bitch-dating: 1- Miss Feminist This woman postulates that all the ills of society are orchestrated by men and the best thing a man can do to ...

he worst U.S. recession since the Great Depression will probably end in the third quarter, but there is uncertainty over the speed and duration of the economic recovery, according to the most recent survey of private economists. The Blue Chip Economic Indicators survey of private economists released on Monday showed about 90 percent of the respondents believed the economic downturn would be declared to have ended this quarter. This upbeat assessment followed recent government data showing gross domestic product (GDP) contracted at a shallow 1.0 percent rate in the second quarter after sinking 6.4 percent in the January-March quarter. Recent data, including housing and key labor market indicators, have suggested a bottoming in the recession and the the economy close to turning the corner. "Debate now centers on the speed, strength and durability of the recovery," the survey said. It showed nearly two-thirds of respondents believed the economy was set for a U-shaped recovery, m...

Patience, research and sticking to “affordable psf” should result in a headache-free home Two Sundays ago, my editor wrote in this column about property advice his parents gave him just before he bought his first home. He was unaware, but on the day his column was published, I took the plunge and bought my very first property with my partner. His words obviously resonated with me: My purchase was an apartment way below $1,000 psf and under $1million, and reasonably near an MRT station by 2015. But beyond these guidelines, I discovered that buying the first home was a lot more difficult and agonising than I had ever imagined – a process determined by so many pressures and factors. For the longest time, the classified advertisements on Saturdays were my best friend. I zoomed in on cheap private properties because my partner and I were deemed ineligible for HDB flats (he is neither a citizen nor a permanent resident). I pored through every single column, rang countless property agents and...

According to Dennis Gartman, a number of indicators point to a recovery that is just getting started. By Scott Cendrowski, reporter NEW YORK (Fortune) -- When economist Dennis Gartman told subscribers of his newsletter in the fall of 2007 that the U.S. was entering a recession, the Dow was at 13,500, and the official government call wouldn't come for another full year. Now he's ahead of officials and forecasters again. According to Gartman, the U.S. recession that started in December 2007 is done. "We saw it happen two weeks ago -- it's over," he said in a recent interview. Other well-known economists and market watchers have recently been hinting at the same thing. NYU economics professor Nouriel Roubini, also known as "Dr. Doom" for his prescient predictions of the worldwide downturn, says the U.S. recession will end later this year. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said last weekend that the recession is easing. And President Obama told Univision l...

Author: Robin Williams Falling into debt may be an easy process but getting out of debt isn’t. And it takes a lot of time before you can regain your financial stature and be a lender’s favorite again. So, how to get out of debt and attain financial equilibrium again? One of the most important factors that you need to keep in mind is there are no shortcuts to a debt free life. And if you have taken may be few weeks, months or days to get into debt, you cannot expect to get out of it in a jiffy. And it is better to adopt a very steady process to get out of debt lest you fall into it again. There are many ways you can get rid of debts. If your debts are manageable and you are confident that you can get out of this financial mess on your own, you can avoid doing all the things that you shouldn’t have done when you fell in a debt trap. The following may be some of the measures that you can adopt to get out of debt. Hide your plastic cards- Keep away those tempting plastic c...

By Simon Maierhofer In the good old days, farmers knew better than to yoke a bull and an ass together to plow the field. The yoke would be uneven and no good would come from it. How about a bull and a bear, would those two harmonize? We shall find out soon. Unknowingly, investors have been watching a bull and bear work together simultaneously. We have a stock market bull and an economy bear. How so? For nearly five months, the major U. S. indexes such as the S&P 500 (SNP: ^GSPC), Dow Jones (DJI: ^DJI) and Nasdaq (Nasdaq: ^IXIC), along with international stocks (NYSEArca: EFA - News) have been climbing higher and higher. Simultaneously, economic numbers continue to disappoint. In other words, the stock market bull is thriving, while the economy bear is diving. Full of confidence, the stock bull is vivacious and obvious to all while the economy bear is ashamed of its dark existence. It thus makes sense that bad news is hardly broadcasted, in some instances one even has to search for ...

Jeremy Grantham is out again with a very important investment strategy piece entitled “Boring Fair Price!” He leads off by talking about how markets went from extremely overvalued a year ago to cheap back to a state which he considers fair value. But, he sees the recent rally as a speculative rally which is a response to the savage beating markets took late last year and this past Winter. Waiting for Markets to be Silly Again A year is certainly a long time in markets, and so is a quarter. A year ago, equities globally – and everything else for that matter – were very overpriced, particularly if they were risky. A quarter ago, in mid March, prices everywhere were cheap. Now they have all – or almost all – converged for a few unusual moments at fair value. A year ago, it was very easy to know what to be: a risk avoider. It was not so easy reinvesting when terrified, but most of us knew that we should have been doing more. But today? It’s difficult to be inspired at fair value. Since e...