Posts Tagged ‘ money ’

Twitter “Contributors” Targets Business Users

December 16, 2009

Twitter’s new Contributors feature is a building block for its forthcoming premium business accounts, Tameka Kee writes, reporting that the tool lets users tell apart multiple individuals who use the same account. The move may be to compete with third-party applications built with Twitter’s API, Kee notes. “The more premium features rolls out...
More »

Tags: , , , , , ,
Posted in News, Online, Social Networking | No Comments »

U.S. Considers Curbs on Speculative Trading of Oil

July 8, 2009

I hope that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission takes action to regulate oil future speculators.  While I believe in a free market system we do need some regulation to control speculators controlling prices beyond natural market forces such as a civil war in a major oil producing nation, a refinery being destroyed by a hurricane, etc....
More »

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Observations, Politics | No Comments »

Ruth Madoff Forfeits Asset Claims, Left with $2.5 Million

June 27, 2009

I don’t get this.  If I robbed a bank and gave some of the proceeds to my wife, the money would be seized.  Why should Ruth Madoff be treated any different?  I don’t believe for second that she didn’t know what her husband was doing.  All wives know what their husbands are doing.  Maybe...
More »

Tags: , , , , ,
Posted in Observations | No Comments »