• Milwaukee Public Schools Spending More Next Year

    Despite the misleading, fraudulent headling in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel today, the truth is that Milwaukee Public Schools will be spending more taxpayer money next school year. JSOnline reported: “MPS cuts spending, spends stimulus.” The truth is that MPS is […]

  • Buying a Job With Haverhill Home Staging? Questionable.

    Do-it-yourself home renovation projects are still all the rage, years after shows like TLC’s Trading Spaces became popular. No doubt the economy has also influenced people to try to increase the value of their real estate for little or no […]

  • Note to SEC: Does InterOil (NYSE:IOC) violate Regulation FD?

    The SEC’s Regulation FD is one of those pesky little rules public companies are supposed to abide by. The basic idea behind this rule, called “FD” for “Fair Disclosure,” is to make sure that some parties don’t have an unfair […]

  • Update on Quickbooks Sucks

    A few weeks ago, I posted my opinion on Intuit and QuickBooks on this blog. Essentially the company created a program to get people to sign up for a monthly technical support plan costing $39, and then when that plan […]

  • Evidence of Naked Short Selling? Hardly.

    The tinfoil hat-wearing crew over at Deep Capture thinks they’ve finally demonstrated an actual case of Naked Short Selling damaging a company.  (They’ve been asked repeatedly to prove that naked short selling has ever severely damaged a company, and have […]

  • Why I Hate Intuit and Quickbooks

    I hate Intuit, the makers of Quickbooks and Quicken software. The reason is simple: Instead of relying on value to sell their products, they use trickery, deceit, and strongarm tactics. Any accounting professional who uses Quickbooks in their work knows […]

  • There Is No Need For Government-Run Health Care

    More words of wisdom from DownsizeDC.org: Sadly, the politicians now want to create a new dragnet program that will once again fail as a safety net. And they’re once again using fraudulent claims to con us. The politicians tell us […]

  • Government-Sanctioned Violence

    Our government forces us to paytaxes, giving an ever-increasing amount of money earned for our hard work, rather than end up in jail. Pay. Pay as much as we demand. Or we will use violence (imprisonment and more) against you…. […]

  • What’s Wrong With the U.S. Healthcare System?

    The problem with healthcare is not the “uninsured” or that people aren’t getting the care that they need. On the contrary, people are getting care whether they’re insured or not. They are getting some of the best care in the […]

  • Challenging property tax assessments

    I recently got a very nice note from a gentleman who works in a city assessor’s office (not local to me). I thought I’d share it with you, and below is the video that he’s referring to.