It has been announced today that Donald Trump’s fixer-upper in Palm Beach, FL was sold for $100M to a Russian fertilizer entrepreneur, Dmitry Rybolovlev (yes, he’s a billionaire). The twist in the story is that Kendra Todd, the hottie winner of Donald’s The Apprentice Season 3, was given the job of renovating the property (acquired by [...]
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There were a lot of hiccups early in the history of this year’s CNBC $1M Challenge game, but perhaps the biggest news was the massive stock market collapsing behavior, due to the oil speculating, financial company shenanigans, mortgage market malfeasance, and lack of confidence from investors. Today is the penultimate day of the CNBC stock [...]
In this unenlightened era of massively escalating gasoline prices and stunted alternative fuel/power research, Vespa is making a bid to re-emerge from its “retro” and “alternate-lifestyle” associations as a viable transportation option for the people. Back on 5/22/2008, CNBC ran a story about Vespa as an alternative to cars and other gas-guzzling motor vehicles. At [...]
Uh-oh! Is there egregious, rampant cheating in the CNBC $1M Challenge? That’s what a lot of players would like to know, including Flip. In fact, Flip made a note of it today on his blog! He presents his case and a lot of rationales. And he’s also soliciting your comments.
We’re deep in the third week of the CNBC $1M Challenge game. Just like a lot of you, I enjoy doing the rounds of the various stockpicking sites and blogs. Now, just because they’re stockpicking sites doesn’t mean that there shouldn’t be a decent amount of humor interspersed with useful, or at least entertaining, information. [...]
Remember when I mentioned that the currency trading (using the initially reserved $100,000 funds from the $1,000,000) in the CNBC $1M Challenge game was disabled due to some sort of technical problems? Well, you may have noticed the statement on the main page of the game announcing that the currency trading will be back, starting [...]
Yeaaargh! Waaaaaaah! For some odd reason, it seems that I’m trying to catch up with the various lifestyle thingies that I customarily find fun and relaxing… Here are the three things that have somehow slipped to the wayside, and which I’m mentioning to you now… Blogging (yeah, as if you haven’t noticed!)… This year’s CNBC [...]
If you’ve been hiding out for a bit, you may have missed this fun game… As of this writing, we’re now in the midst of the second week of CNBC’s $1M Challenge. It’s a fun yet exasperating stock market game that leverages a subset of the stocks available in the U.S. stock markets and overlays [...]
