It seems that the global economic downturn has even made paupers out of billionaires. Here is a top list, compiled by Forbes, of billionaire who lost billions of dollars from their net worth over the last year.
Anil Ambani (was worth: $42 billion/current worth: $12 billion)
Oleg Deripaska ($28 billion/$10 billion)
Bjorgflur Gudmundsson ($1.1 billion/$0)
Luis Portillo ($1.2 [...]
Those involved in the Mid East conflict are not adherents of the Middle Way. To those that cry for ‘peace in the Middle East,’ I say ‘not in our time.’ The Bush administration warned the Palestinians to to stop firing rockets, but continue dying, and perhaps in the afterlife they can attain peace [...]
Franchise allow you to be your own boss while using an establish business plan. Entrepreneur magazine recently released their 30th Annual Franchise 500 list. According to the 2008 Franchise 500 list, the top 10 franchises are the following…
Subway
McDonald’s
Liberty Tax Service
Sonic Drive In
Intercontinental Hotels Group
Ace Hardware
Pizza Hut
The UPS Store/Mail Boxes Etc.
Circle K
Papa John’s
The fastest [...]
Here is a modern economic crisis edition of the poem First They Came…
They laid off first the unskilled workers, and I did nothing because I wasn’t unskilled.
Then they trimmed the manual laborers, and I did nothing because I wasn’t a manual laborer.
Then they outsourced the blue collar worker, and I did nothing because I wasn’t [...]
Here is a stream of my tweets on the possible economic bailout.
Bailout = No Bankers left behind. Stop Loss = Soldiers left behind in war zone.
Strong economy, it is a bull market. Weak economy, a bear market. Economy collapses, a bear will maul you while a bull gores you..
bull market ^ bull shit = collapse [...]
President Bush is as committed to finding Osama Bin Laden as OJ Simpson is committed to finding the murderer of Nicole Simpson. After nearly eight years of his administration, secret documents outlining his foreign policy have been released under the Freedom of Information Act.
Find a map.
Find Putin’s soul.
Find oil.
??????
Profit.
Find Osama
[tags]bush brigade, president bush, bush [...]
Christopher Bridges, better known by his stooge name Ludacris, has recorded and released a song in support of Obama. The song is entitled ‘Politics: Obama Is Here.’ In song Ludacris states that the world is ready for change because Obamam is here, but the first thing he asks of Obama is special pardon [...]
The World Economic Forum takes place annually in Davos, Switzerland and in an upset Denmark took top position in this years Network Readiness Index. The United States dropped to seventh place, having held the top spot last year.
Here is a video of one of the founders of Skype, a Danish serial entrepreneur, at the [...]
We all thought that the Cold War ended when the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991. But recent remarks by the Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Russian congress in his yearly State of the Nation address has the news wires, political analysts, and NATO command asking if the Cold War is hot again. [...]
A lot of news sites and blogs are buzzing about a recent court decision against Google’s YouTube. This is an interesting case because the court was in Brazil and it has ordered that YouTube be “shut down” until the hot and steamy sex tape of Daniela Cicarelli is removed. Daniela is a Brazilian [...]