Recent content by Gordon Gekko

You have to hold a very distinct portfolio to be protected by any property crash. How about cash?

If I could go back and do it over I would call this guy.:D http://northoftheriver.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/bernie_madoff_newyork1.jpg

Here is the future of Australian housing. http://www.sfgate.com/g/pictures/2007/04/27/ga_surreal_img_2705.jpg And most will be able to afford it. Sunshine and lolly pops brothers Yeah G

Thats why I like MAC's as compared to PC's. Ive never been done on a Mac but PC different story.

What a joke! Shouldn't appearance fee's be paid for by sponsors that paste all there crap propaganda all over the event site? Since when did governments get involved with my tax money to pay some overseas anybody to come here regardless if it draws a crowd or not. That money should stay in...

Don't call the cops mate, Set up a meet and bring some back up. The cops will just waste time and money backlogging the courts. Ive been done for 10k but lucky for me the bank put it back in my account within 48 hours. It ****ing pisses me off these low life scum sucking pigs ripping...

It wasn't an index fund that's the thing, it was an actively managed fund. after really looking into it I noticed it was nothing more than what you wrote above. So where is the added value in an actively managed fund if the FA could have recommended STW or another index fund. oh yeah the extra...

I fired my Financial adviser in Aug 07 after a meeting in which he told me that I had a 28% return for the previous year. I did this because I finally figured out exactly how much I was paying for the service. 4% contribution fee as well as 1.75% MER as well as all the other money he was...

Financial advisers are nothing better then commission based salesmen. They only thing they care about is how much commission they are going to get off you even though there office walls are full of family pictures. I find it funny how they are moving to a fee for service model and now they are...

My wife wants to get involved in the discussion. Her dinner party which I would have to attend and just between us would not be as exciting as mine would be as follows. 1. Terry Fox who as an amputee ran a marathon a day for 300 days across Canada to raise money for cancer. He died short...

I found this article interesting and wonder how the results will affect most asset classes in particular housing. Yes I'm still a bear. http://www.scribd.com/doc/21663635/Debt-Deflation-October-2009 Best G

1.Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: as he would bring the following supplies: Two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... Also, a quart of...

I thought this was funny!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnX-D4kkPOQ G

Ok another alternate view as to way we bread and why it does not seem to be as much of an issue as we as a society evolve. Say 100 years ago the thing to do was get married at say 13, start having kids because you needed them to help on the farm. Family units were much tighter as there was a...

Hey Uncle, I had no idea that you are from Canada! You have just gone to all star status in my book! Uncle 1 Drongo 0 In my book anyway G