Posted in Investing, Making Money, News on Aug 31st, 2007 No Comments »
Congratulations, you just won $330 Million in tonight’s Mega Millions lottery! Now what?
It’s all too often we hear about the multi million dollar lottery winner who squandered there fortune in a few short years and are back in the poor house. Here’s some ideas to help you out if you ever strike it rich, so [...]
Posted in News on Aug 31st, 2007 No Comments »
So far the Mega Millions Lottery is up to $330 Million for the drawing tonight and could climb again based on larger than expected last minute sales. Ticket machines are sure to be buzzing all day as people hope to cash in on a near record lotto jackpot. The lump sum option would pay out [...]
Posted in Economy on Aug 31st, 2007 No Comments »
Today President Bush announced new initiatives aimed to help hundreds of thousands of homeowners with their subprime and high risk mortgages. I think this is the first step to a full scale government bailout for homeowners and the lenders as well. While I don’t agree with the government spending tax dollars to help people who [...]
Posted in Quixtar/TEAM on Aug 30th, 2007 No Comments »
TEAM is filing Temporary Restraining Orders (TRO) all over the country against Quixtar and Alticor has come forward to discuss its position on the matter.
Temporary Restraining Order – “An order of brief duration that is issued ex parte to protect the plaintiff’s rights from immediate and irreparable injury by preserving a situation or preventing an [...]
Posted in Quixtar/TEAM on Aug 30th, 2007 3 Comments »
I just read a funny post over at another blog and it pertains to the teachings of one particular TEAM group and it’s unfortunate implications. If you haven’t had a good laugh today, be sure to check it out.
For those of you not familiar with TEAM, they are a training organization for Alticor’s Quixtar/Amway network [...]
Posted in News on Aug 30th, 2007 No Comments »
Believe it or not, the average CEO makes 364 times as much as the average employee and this is a significant improvement over recent years. The average CEO earns nearly $11 Million annually. But the amazing statistic is the disparity of pay when comparing that of Private Equity and Hedge Fund managers to nearly anyone [...]
Posted in Quixtar/TEAM on Aug 29th, 2007 6 Comments »
The Quixtar/Alticor PR machine is doing a magnificent job of misconstruing their level of success in the litigation with TEAM and it’s founders Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady. It turns out that TEAM has won 12 lawsuits nationwide versus 3 for Quixtar (all three of those in Michigan). Quixtar has also been spreading its version [...]
Posted in Making Money on Aug 28th, 2007 No Comments »
The other day the creator of the Million Dollar Wiki, Graham Langdon, announced he was leaving college to pursue his new web venture full-time. Well he has clarified his decision that he is not leaving UConn, but is simply cutting back his schedule and not living on campus as an RA.
This is good news and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 27th, 2007 No Comments »
While I don’t normally get into political discussions for obvious reasons, the news coming out today regarding the US Attorney General, Alberto Gonzalez, is long overdue. AG Alberto Gonzalez has submitted his resignation and President Bush has accepted it “with regret” after a Sunday meeting at his Crawford, Texas ranch.
The events that unfolded within our [...]
Posted in Blogging, Google on Aug 27th, 2007 4 Comments »
Something that has bothered me since launching Shaun Carter dot Com is that when you search for my name in Google, the Wikipedia entry for Jay-Z (Shawn Carter) showed first with my site coming in second. Well I noticed quite an increase in traffic for the search term “shaun carter” the other day so I [...]
