- So the question about the market is what will happen in the final hour? Do you trust it? We're up a bit but seem to meandering around the days' lows so far.
- Apple down a bit in a "sell the pre-news" reaction to the 6/29 iPhone launch. WHAT? I know, they're just coming out with a new $500-600 phone (plus monthly subscription fees) that promises to (GASP!) make phone calls AND play music. Sure, there are a bazillion other smartphones out there that do that and even even include high-speed internet. Some are free or under $100. But none of them include the greasy-finger fun navigation system of the iPhone.
- Can you imagine fingering the iPhone after eating a handful of Doritos or Cheese Puffs? Say, there is an investment idea here somewhere in those moist handwipes. Maybe create an iPhone case that includes a refillable pocket for handwipes, and call it the "iHandwipe."
- Everyone will want an iPhone, right? Even the subprime borrower who can no longer afford the house payments will get one! (But will he get it for no money down with negatively amortized credit card?)
- Few states require high school grads to take finance classes. The bad news is that only 17 states require students take an economics class to graduate from high school and only seven states require a personal-finance course, according to a survey released Wednesday by the National Council on Economic Education. So there you go. Then we wonder why so many people have financial problems through life.
- Cucumber-flavored soda sold in Japan. Not with real cucumbers, mind you. But artificial cucumber flavor. Don't ask me who wins the Nobel Peace Prize for inventing artificial cucumber flavor. "We wanted a flavor that makes people think of keeping cool in the summer heat," Takemoto said. "We thought the cucumber was just perfect." Then why not "swimming pool flavored soda?" Riddle me that, Batman.
