By Ocean on Sep 11, 2008 in Featured | 0 Comments
As a site that promotes market forces in everyday life and encourages transactions by, for and of the people, we decided to put our meager earnings where our keyboard is and invest with Prosper.com.
Prosper.com is an online P2P community which allows users to provide loans to those who need it. The rates are slightly higher [...]
By Ocean on Sep 9, 2008 in Articles of Interest, Current Events, Featured | 3 Comments
Sarah Palin recently called herself a “Hockey mom,” so Slate has written a convenient article outlining the principal differences between a Hockey mom and a Soccer mom.
The gist is that Hockey moms, although fewer in number, will be slightly better off financially. They also tend to be more gung-ho about their kids’ sport than [...]
By Ocean on Sep 2, 2008 in Articles of Interest, Current Events, Featured, Prediction Markets | 2 Comments
Those who read our previous post regarding prediction markets know that we were following the VP candidate announcements with interest. They may have also noticed the the prediction markets were incorrect.
Once again, Joseph Biden was the top Democratic VP pick for the markets, while the Republican pick varied between Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty. [...]
