Virgin Starts Offering Charter Service in America

Virgin Charter

Appears to be based on a bidding system for specific flights. Submit your flight route and date; then, several charter companies will offer bids on the flight.

Who to blame for the Credit Crisis

A house was bought for $750,000 in 2006. It's now worth $400,000. The seller took advantage of a good market. The buyer did not pay a good price for their new property. The buyer had the responsibility to agree to a fair price. They could have gotten erroneous information from an appraisal. The banker probably should not have given a zero percent loan for an overvalued asset. The investment bankers and other financial wizards were taking advantage of a favorable market to create advanced securities from mortgages. The US government cannot be held to blame for creating a low inflation environment; this probably had other economic benefits including job growth.

Other Point of Views:
Steve Forbes

Invest in international microloans

Invest wisely. End poverty. | microfinance at MicroPlace

Investments can be as small as one hundred dollars. Interest rates can be up to 3% which is much better than most standard US banks.

Sarah Palin SNL Open

Mostly Tina Fey, guest appearances by Alec Baldwin and Mark Wahlberg.

Early Absentee Voting in St. Louis

I was about to send in an absentee ballot in St. Louis City, but apparently you need the mail in ballot to be notarized. This pretty much makes it as difficult as showing up to a voting booth on election day since one would have to take time off work to go to a notary republic. Instead I voted at the Board of Elections office in St. Louis. It's located at 300 N. TUCKER, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI 63101 - Hours: Monday - Friday 8AM – 5PM. Electronic and paper voting is available. Electronic voting took a few minutes. Apparently, even early voting can lead to long lines at the Board of Elections the week before the actual election day, so earlier voting will be easier. You have to be registered to vote in the city of St. Louis. Early voting should be available across the state. Bring your driver's license for identification.
St. Louis Board of Elections

Google Insiders Unload 7.6 Billion Dollars in 3 months

According to Yahoo Finance, Google (GOOG) insiders have sold 18,178,500 shares from the last quarter to this quarter. Based on an average price of $420, the shares have given the insiders $7,634,970,000. This is a company with no public record of an insider buying shares since it went public.

Givenchy Women's Knee High Boot

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Bruno Magli Ashton Slip On

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DRIP Calculator

Finance : DRIP Calculator

Dividend reinvestment plans (DRIPs) allow an individual shareholder to reinvest dividends in company shares. For example, if a company stock trades for $20 and has a dividend of $1, the yearly one dollar can be used to buy 0.05 shares. The next year, the shareholder will have 1.05 shares and receive $1.05 in dividends and that many shares will be bought. DRIPs usually allow fractional share ownership and purchases. The DRIP calculator will use the initial share price, shares owned, yearly dividend, and years owned to calculate the yearly income and total shares purchased.

Fear Machine in Full Force

I received a flyer in the mail from the John McCain campaign. On the front is a picture of the President of Iran, Hugo Chavez, Osama, and the President of North Korea. A tank is in the background and the caption around the picture is "Dangerous Times Demand Experience". Inside is an absentee ballot form in case you're too afraid to leave your house.

Spread Put Calculator

Finance : Spread Put Calculator

Spread Put Calculator
Enter the price of the higher put and the price of the lower put. Sell the higher put and buy the lower put. This calculator will provide the profit and yield. Enter the higher put price strike for price paid. Enter the current price.

FAQs

How does selling a covered put work?

Talk to your brokerage. Usually, if you sell a covered put, you agree
to buy the stock at the price of the put. You get to keep the money from
selling the options after the transaction is completed. If the price of
the stock on the day of expiration is below the put price, you will buy
those shares at the agreed price. If the stock price on expiration day
is above the put price, then you do not have to buy those shares at the
put price. You keep the money from selling the options as pure profit.
Obviously, the stock can decline beyond the price of the put and you could
lose more money because you agreed to buy at a higher price.

What is a spread put?

Since you can lose money if the stock keeps on dropping below your covered
put price, it would be wise to have some insurance. If you buy the put
at the next lowest price, this put will increase in value as the share
price declines. The covered put is similar to selling stocks short. As
the price declines, the negative value of the covered put declines.

Technology Blog Ring Directory

Publisher : Blog Ring Directory
Submit your site to the technology blog ring, and then copy and paste the code to display the links. As new sites are added, the code will display the new links on your page.
Technology Blogs
Engadget
Gizmodo
Slashdot
Lifehacker
BoingBoing

Spread Put Option Calculator

Enter the higher strike put option and the lower strike price put option. The higher price put option will be sold, and the lower price put option will be bought. Since the higher price put option was sold, if the stock goes below that price, 100 shares of that stock will be bought at the higher price put option. If the stock goes above the higher strike price of the put option, the spread between the high price put and the low price put would be the profit. The high price put would expire worthless after selling it at a high price. The low price put would expire worthless after buying it a low price.

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Random Links Generator with Javascript

Random Links Generator using Javascript

Create a list of links using Javascript. Enter your own links in the code below and paste into your webpage. The more links you have, the less likely your links will repeat.

FanBase

FanBase

Create a list of people and their contact information or websites. This Javascript program will display a selected number of people out of the list. People can submit their e-mail address or links to their web pages: MySpace, Facebook, or LinkedIn.

Google Earth API Introduced

This is an example of the Google (GOOG) Earth API. Try typing in Philadelphia. If the city has been rendered in 3D, then you can drive a vehicle through it. City Hall is done very well. The Google Earth API allows websites to show Google earth applications after installing a plug in.

Monster Milktruck!

Steve Jobs announces iPhone 2 video

iPhone 2.0 Key Note

Rent or Buy Calculator

An interactive chart and calculator from the New York Times compares renting versus owning. If you pay less than $700 for rent, renting is usually the better option unless you find a house for less than $100,000.

Is It Better to Buy or Rent? - NYTimes.com

Lenders Decrease home Prices to attract buyers

3 bedroom house in Sacramento bid was $195,000.

Lenders slash prices on foreclosed houses as numbers surge: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

Alternative to PayPal

The site is ambiguous about fees, but this might be a cheaper version of PayPal for merchants to accept payments online.

Moneta : A better way to pay.