Well folks, my journey at InvestorGeeks has come to an end. I want to thank the Investor Geeks for giving me the opportunity to post, and comment. It was fun.
I will be continuing my posting on my own blog at http://www.happyasahippo.com. If you wish to follow me, head on over there, otherwise it was nice having you as a reader. At my blog I will also be updating what I will be posting on. I am thinking I will be focusing on both commentary and using Excel for investing purposes, …

I find it funny how the market is repricing that the EU will support Greece. The EU might support Greece, but not with Germany’s money. Without any cuts there is NO WAY, and I really do mean NO WAY that Germany will provide money for Greece. I was talking to some Germans in Germany and they said, “Give me a break with Greece. They think they can get away with it [no cuts, no changes]. I want Greece out of the Euro, they don’t deserve it.”
The EU is kicking the …

I have been following this Greece situation quite closely and today I read something that is making me think of what the next potential step may be.
EU spokesman Amadeu Altafaj Tardio says the EU executive has given Greece an end-of-February deadline to give details on how deals called currency swaps affected government accounts since 2001.
He said such swaps weren’t illegal unless the Greece was not using market rates to calculate the exchange rate.

What I find interesting is that they seem to be focusing on the swap exchange rate, and the …

Many of you might be thinking, “Christian are you off your rocker… If Greece goes under the Euro zone will go under…” I say, no, it will in fact strengthen the Euro zone because a precedent has been set. Namely that the Eurozone must clean up its act and balance its budgets.
The Greek prime minister is doing best what politicians of Greece have been doing all along, namely avoiding the issue. Here is the problem Greece said that they are cutting wages by 20%. Yet is that an answer? That …

I suppose I have been too long in Europe, but the Google Superbowl ad just sucks! The first time I watched it I stopped. Then I read what it was about, and it sucked again… It is a dumb story! I suppose this is due to the fact that I live in Europe and the story is so cliche that it is not even interesting anymore.
But the ad is in fact factually incorrect!
Namely…  If this person were indeed traveling to France, and indeed putting in his search requests they would …