Archive for June, 2006

Date: June 27th, 2006, Filed under Housing Bubble

If you’re in trouble with your 30-year mortgage, why not take out a 40-year or 50-year mortgage or an interest only loan? That’s what a Newsday editorial is suggesting.1 Ugh! If you want to avoid having financial trouble, don’t buy a home bigger than you need. Note that I didn’t say “bigger than you want.” For most families, 3 bedrooms is fine — looking at the new 6 bedroom developments just miles from my home continues to shock me as my local banks report higher foreclosure listings than I’ve ever seen. Good job, Newsday. Read this entire article at the housing bubble site.

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Date: June 27th, 2006, Filed under Oil Report

Today’s oil news is pretty thin with most of the newsrags reporting that investors are sitting and waiting for the Fed report to gauge where future commodity prices will be heading. We are seeing new discoveries of oil all over the Ugandan area, with 4 new reports surfacing very recently.1 The Albertine region is possibly rich in crude and shale oil varities, and has seen much more attention from international companies in the past few years. Read this entire article at the oil report site.

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Date: June 26th, 2006, Filed under Be a Man

The fifth step to building confidence rolls up all previous 4 steps and adds a little part to them. You’re going to have to practice all 4 steps together for the fifth step to be profitable for you if you’re an unconfident man. Read this entire article at the Be A Man site.

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Date: June 26th, 2006, Filed under Oil Report

Read today’s oil report at the Oil Report site.

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Date: June 26th, 2006, Filed under Housing Bubble

Read today’s housing bubble news article at the housing bubble site.

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Date: June 23rd, 2006, Filed under Entrepreneurship

At the Be Your Own Boss forum, regular contributer Prompt said the following in response to the last article about writing blogs for businesses: “I think this is a great idea, and quite a viable one for me; however, how do you find these businesses who are looking for someone to run a blog for them? Any tips would be great.” His question is not necessarily unique to this business idea, but one that I seem to get all the time in real life or in e-mails: how do you find customers for a business market that is too new to be really well known? Read this entire article at the Be The Boss site.

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