With the Superbowl coming up it's natural that people will start talking about the various ads that you'll see running during the game. I imagine that there are probably as many people who tune in to see the ads as actually watch the game. This got me to thinking about some of my favorite adver
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01/28/2008
As the title suggests, this post should put me over the century mark here on AR. When I looked up and noticed this, I thought about what a suitable topic would be for it and decided that the best thing would be to reflect on the good, the bad and the ugly of my experiences here on Active Rain.In
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01/24/2008
This morning as I was driving across town I had my radio tuned into my local NPR affiliate when a local show called, "St. Louis On The Air" came on. It's a call in talk show and the today's topic was, "Diversity In The Workplace". It turned out that the guests were all associated with a progra
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01/22/2008
In our roles as real estate agents many times we are called upon to serve our customers in other ways. Sometimes we're something of a financial planner. Sometimes we serve as an interior decorator. Sometimes we're even marriage counselors. We wear many hats and play many roles. Two of the mos
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01/21/2008
The honest truth of the matter is that the US economy is in a world of hurt. The fiscal policies of the last 7 years have painted the Fed into a corner. If they cut interest rates, the dollar is in danger of tanking. If the dollar tanks, inflation is likely to raise it's ugly head. If they do
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01/17/2008
This post is the follow up to my post, "Take Two Fed Cuts And Call Me In The Morning" where I compared the Bush administration's economic policies to those of college students with their first charge cards. In it, I painted a dire economic picture that I feel accurately reflects the current stat
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01/16/2008
If you watch the talking heads on the various business/news shows on a regular basis, you might have noticed that they change their tune to fit whatever the realities of the day are. A couple of years ago when the economy was slowing they would say that housing was keeping the economy afloat.Whe
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01/16/2008
Every once in a while I'll read a blog on blogging. Some of them go into the technical aspects of it. Others go into the SEO benefits, etc. Well, today I discovered another benefit. The joy of communicating!What happened was this, I posted a blog called, "Traffic Cameras, Good Thing or Bad" a
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01/15/2008
I've got a question for you...how many of you are familiar with The Lake Of The Ozarks? While it's pretty well known here in the Midwest, I've got a sneaky suspicion that a good number of you folks outside of the region aren't aware of this gem!Lake of the Ozarks is a 93 mile long, 55,000 acre,
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01/15/2008
Yesterday I wrote a post called, "Is It Time For A Revolution" where I talked about an article that I had read on how the very rich spend their money. I thought that the post had turned out pretty good, but what impressed me the most were the comments!The comments that I received on it were out
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01/11/2008