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POPSRevamping 401(k)s Some 401(k) plans are turning to collective funds since they typically charge lower fees than mutual funds. But, not surprisingly, there are drawbacks. Learn more here.
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POPS YOU JUST GOT SCREWED and Nobody Will tell you! URGENT!! Made the Digg front page in less than 3 hrs. Thank goodness some people still care what is happening in this country! Meanwhile, last year, Freddie Mac paid chairman and CEO Richard Syron nearly $19.8 million in compensation, Fannie Mae pres. and CEO Daniel Mudd recieved $12.2 million, including a $2.2 million bonus!
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POPSHousing Tax Credit Instead Fan & Fred pass some cheap money to home buyers, but the majority of it goes to banks. Why is the U.S. government subsidizing lenders? Instead, pass along the savings directly to homeowners.
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POPSInvestment Manage your forex trading more efficiently with 1investmentheelp.com. Oour forex traders often pinpoint the opportunities in forex trading and persist to time the industry so they know precisely when the right time is to trade or buy.
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POPSChina and Fannie Mae China has already been burned badly with its Blackstone and Morgan Stanley investments. But with the Big Macs and Maes, it's still the same old problem, the Chinese loaned them money which they can't pay back, however, much both sides want pretend that one day they can.
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POPSThree Servicemen sculpture in Apalachicola honors Vietnam Vets "And beyond that, he wanted the sculpture to be a heartfelt and simple thank you from the citizens of this nation to the service and sacrifice of the veterans and their families." She quoted from her husband's last public speech in May 1999, a few months before his death. "By the expressions on the faces of the intensity of the strain and the anguish that was part of the Vietnam veterans experience on the battlefield and at homecoming, and by their endurance and youthful dedication to duty, they reveal themselves as true heroes," she said. She told of how the sculptor had learned from his talks with Vietnam vets that "all treasured their deep bonds of loyalty, comradeship and interdependence," or as one veteran put it, "At first we thought we were fighting for our country but soon we came to realize we were fighting for each other."
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POPSTo Trust or Not to Trust? It has been hypothesized that oxytocin, a hormone recognized for its role in social attachment and facilitation of social interactions, is also important in the formation of trust. For instance, application of oxytocin to “investors” in experimental games increases their tendency to engage in social risks and trust someone else with their money (see this and this). The study by Baumgartner and his colleagues highlights the neural mechanisms through which oxytocin acts to facilitate trust behavior by investigating what happens in the brain when trust breaks down.
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POPSAbout Goodness "Does anyone ever notice the spider spinning in the hedge?" I knew a girl once who did and I opened my eyes and saw the goodness in her even though she was afraid of spiders. I try to remember that always.
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POPSCDOs Rise From The Dead These reinvented CDOs are supposed to be less risky...we'll see. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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POPSFlorida Unclaimed Money @ Bloglines Over a billion dollars worth of state unclaimed funds owed to 8 million Floridians. The Florida unclaimed money comes from financial assets that people lose track of.
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POPSCircumcision - cutting the competition
Some forms of genital mutilation have obvious effects on fertility. For instance, several African and Micronesian societies practice testicular ablation—the crushing or cutting off of one testicle. Some Australian aborigines engage in subincision, which exposes part of the urethra and thus causes sperm to leak out of the base of the penis. Circumcision does not have quite such clear-cut effects. But there are several ways it may affect fertility: most obviously, the lack of a foreskin could make insertion, ejaculation or both take longer. Perhaps long enough that an illicit quickie will not always reach fruition. Older men are in a position to form alliances with younger men—passing on knowledge, lending them political support and giving them access to weapons. By insisting that the young undergo genital mutilation of some form as a quid pro quo, an older married man can seek to ensure that even if he is cuckolded, he will still be the father of his wives’ children.
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POPSPETITION: To Secure Unrestricted Reliable Energy Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow the issuance of tax exempt facility bonds for the financing of domestic use oil refinery facilities; (2) extend through 2018 the tax credit for producing electricity from wind facilities; and (3) allow tax credits for the production of electricity from nuclear energy, natural gas production, and carbon dioxide tertiary injectant processes. Requires the President to designate at least 10 sites for oil or natural gas refineries on federal lands and make such sites available to the private sector for construction of refineries.
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POPSCuomo, Wall Street Agree On Mortgage Debt Overhaul The deal applies only to riskier, non-prime loans in America, and is designed to end what the industry calls "ratings shopping" that pits credit-rating agencies against one another. The $5 billion rating agency industry has been accused of issuing favorable ratings to secure business with leading Wall Street investment banks. The three ratings agencies also signed a letter of agreement to work with Mr. Cuomo to pursue further reforms for the mortgage industry. The attorney general said his probe into the entire mortgage industry, including loan originators and big banks, is ongoing. "We continue to believe that the more our customers, investors and other market participants know about how we do our work, the better," the president of Standard & Poor's, Deven Sharma, said. "We continue to work with the attorney general and policymakers to support effective operations of the world's capital markets."
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POPSTOP 20 WORST CASTING DECISIONS EVER Part II (#10 - #6)
Here in the second Part I had to go deeper into the author's reasoning. No problem with Knightley, Denise Richards (though he was rather brutal), and Shatner... but I take exception with Robinson and Connery! Robinson did not play the Pharaoh in the Ten Commandments, Yul Brynner was Ramses II and his father, Seti, was played by great British actor Sir Cedric Hardwicke. Robinson was a minor overseer of his fellow Hebrews building the Pyramids... Never let Hollywood stand in the way of history but the reviewer should know that there was no Hebrew Pharaoh! The second point is a little less on point and more of opinion, but I find Sean Connery is such a great actor that disbelief is suspended when he is on the screen (note: Highlander II; the one no one wants to claim they made was a glaring exception but it was a stupid movie!) I found him convincing as Bond long before I thought of Moore, Dalton or Brosnan and they were very good Bonds and I had never seen an original until the mid 80
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