Jim Cramer’s MAD MONEY: A Defense.
Jim Cramer, the host of the stock trading television show Mad Money on CNBC, has received a lot of unfair attacks during this economic crisis. I first started watching Mad Money a couple of years ago as a guilty pleasure. With Cramer’s myriad sound effects, turbo charged segments—like the famous “Lightning Round” in which callers [...]
Scam Lotteries. I’m Rich! I’m Rich! I’m Stinking Filthy Rich!
This morning I won 2,500,000 pounds sterling from the United Kingdom National Lottery! Five times! I have five separate reference numbers so that I can quickly claim each of my winnings in lump sums!
But wait. Last week I won 1,750,000 US Dollars from the Ugandan Scholastic Lottery. THREE times! And I have three separate reference [...]
Economy Tanking: Ominous Signs Spell Need For Hope.
The Economy is Tanking.
The economy is tanking. The signs are clear that our financial system, our manufacturing, our gross domestic product, and our consumer spending is on life support. Each time it seems that things cannot get worse, things get worse. Wall Street journalists have been using the phrase, “It’s always darkest before the dawn” [...]
English Professor’s How To in the Stock Market: For Those of Us Wall Street Outsiders.
How to invest and trade in the stock market. This is the opening line to countless articles by how-to gurus in the financial world. Particularly since the collapse of housing, banks and the major Wall Street brokerages, the gurus are out telling everyone that they have the secret to locking in gains in a down [...]
The Best Way to Lose All of Your Money in the Stock Market!
When you are saving for the future, do not use the excuse that you do not understand the stock market. Learn! And take control of your own money and your own investments!
The Most Famous Books I Never Read: the Ultimate Academic Game of Chicken.
In David Lodge’s brilliant and hilarious novel, Small World, a satire of the critical and theoretical mill in English
departments around the world in the 1970s, the English professors at one of the colleges in the narrative play a weekly, ultimate game of academic chicken. They go around the table, and each person has to confess [...]
The Most Famous Books I Never Finished Reading. Confessions of an English Professor.
When I was in graduate school, we nerds would play a game of chicken in which each of us would try to one-up the other in his or her confession of a piece of literature one or the other had never finished reading. So, without further adieu, here are a few of my confessions.
1. The [...]
THE DISSERTATION: The Fear of Bringing it to an End.
Christmas is drawing to an end. The Christmas tree droops. The cookies grow stale. The leftovers in the refrigerator must soon be tossed.
The presents once neatly under the tree now scatter in various pieces and parts across the living room floor.
Holiday music on Comcast Digital Cable lingers only to maintain the flagging spirit.
So now that [...]
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