Sean’s Rant

The company that hires slave workers from other countries, ruined whole ecological systems through deforestation and oil spills, laid you off right in the middle of a depression, raised interest rates on your credit card and cut your credit line when you most needed it after you were laid off while interest rates were actually going down, hired and paid the CEO a $200 million bonus to ruin the company, conned you  into your Adjustable Rate Mortgage when mortgage rates were at all time lows with clearly astronomically low chances of interest rate benefit but almost guaranteed loss, drove the price of gas past $4 a gallon, ruined your retirement account……

This is the first article in a while that I have seen that is close to getting its arms around the situation from a logical point of view, without letting extreme emotion could the real issues. 

It seems that we are a mixture of democracy, capitalism, socialism. Does anyone have any ideas or maybe an idea for one term?

I linked a few articles below that I liked, usually I would just share them on Google Reader, and since I was on my mobile I couldn’t share them on Reader. I could ignore them but I found all 3 interesting. 

Short Selling, a defense. This is the first defense of short selling I have seen. 

There are risks to both alternatives. Although it may seem like the best way to go to start a business over grinding it out as a wage slave, lets do a quick risk-reward analysis.

Wage slaving: There is definitely a risk here, so don’t get confused with this as the low-risk option right away. The risk factors at play here are:

See: Inflation Salary Calculator for a nice tool to calculate what you should be getting based on the beginning of the year starting salary. I think this is going to be a huge issue soon, with the rate of inflation where it is now, and if it continues at this pace, which it looks like it will be doing.

The Four Hour Work Week:

The alternative is the deferred life plan