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I play a simulated stock trading at UpDown.com. I actually got hammered in July, but had an amazing August betting against the financial stocks. This is a good place to learn how to trade stocks and maybe even gauge your level of skill and stress
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In boxing we have the possibility of the biggest PPV to date when Manny Pacquiao takes on Oscar DeLaHoya on December 6. I like both fighters, but have to give the edge to DLH because of the size difference. Even though Pacman throws a ton of punc
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I am extremely addicted to playing chess, it is not even funny. True to my name, I have played about 1500 live chess games and am playing about 27 games online simultaneously. I also entered an online tournament. The level of competition is ex
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The list of troubled banks on the FDIC watch list has grown. My guess is that list will continue to grow for the next couple of quarters. FDIC says list of troubled banks in 2nd quarter grows to 117 with $78 billion in assets - up from 90 banks, $2
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Here is the video of her moving speech last night in case you missed it. Here is a reaction from a Hillary delegate after the speech. Many people said it was up to Hillary to bring the party together. I disagree completely. I think some of her 18
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My wife showed me this young 10 year old chess prodigy who happens to be the youngest master level player. I am no where near this caliber of playing, but it is amazing how good someone can get at any age. Here is the video: I am still playing a
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Obama announced Joe Biden will be his VP running mate. After Georgia was invaded by Russia, his polling numbers went down and McCain’s number went up. The Obama camp hopes this VP pick will help them. Personally, I don’t think this was
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The FDIC just took over its 9th bank failure for the year. This one was called Kansas bank Columbian Bank and Trust Company and has basically the same problems as the previous failures. The bank had too many bad loans being defaulted on. It was th
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I used to have 7 American Express credit cards. I am currently down to 5 now, since I have canceled 2 of them. I plan on canceling them all eventually. They used to be the Rolls Royce of credit cards but now that they have been hammered by the hou
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This fight has been rumored to happen for over a week now. I know the talks fell through but now I hear the talks are back on. I think most of the boxing community thinks it is a mismatch. Even though on weigh in day they will be only a pound or
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There was actually an mma event on Showtime called ShoXC - Hamman vs. Suganuma II. I didn’t recognize any of the fighters on the card and I didn’t see the first Hamman vs Suganuma fight, but this card was extremely entertaining. I looke
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I have been playing chess everyday now for the past 3 weeks. I tried getting in to the live game mode but it wasn’t loading up for me. I still was able to play the online games by email so that helped a bit. You can actually be a bit more [
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NEW YORK, Aug 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury is growing increasingly likely to recapitalize Fannie Mae (FNM.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) and Freddie Mac (FRE.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) in the months ahead on the taxpayer
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The housing market still hasn’t bottomed even though many analysts and economists keep saying every month since January of this year it will bottom out. I don’t understand why they keep saying that when most of the data seems to point we
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It seems like I haven’t blogged forever even though it has been only a week. I have been watching the Beijing Olympics which is on multiple NBC channels where I am at. The biggest surprise for me was that Roger Federer, Venus, and Serena Will
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