Illegal market timing

Thoughts from Miss Monica on the continuing sleaze and corruption in the financial world. Illegal market timing is related to a mutual fund’s disclosure that it does *not* engage in excessive trading practices, such as market timing, while at the…

The pumpkins are now in the front yard!

Miss Monica is the proud grower of these giant pumpkins. The big one weighs about 300 pounds. How the heck did we get them from the back yard to the front yard, you ask? Well, I asked the movers (yes, Miss…

Norway strike to boost oil prices

US oil prices have hit new highs on fears that a shipping dispute in Norway could severely disrupt supplies from the world’s third largest exporter. Self-serve regular is now averaging $2.43 a gallon in my area of LA.

Green Party registrations

Via a California Green Party listserv posting by Mike Feinstein Our latest Green voter registration total, as of 9/03/04 is 156,914  making up 1.00% of the CA statewide total Our last total, as of 2/17/04 was 157,749  making up 1.05% of…

More making’ shit up from the Bushies

Little evidence of Qaeda plot timed to vote In early July, the Homeland security secretary, Tom Ridge, declared that credible intelligence showed Al Qaeda intended to launch a “large-scale attack” inside the United States to “disrupt our democratic process.” Or maybe…