Greg S

Tim Bradley? Devon Alexander? Amir Khan?

I just hope 140 does a tournament like they are doing at 168.

I am looking at establishing a web development company. Is there a way to determine how much I should set my hourly rate at?

I am currently looking at using the following equation, I'm not sure if it's adequate.

The salary I want in a year + 30%

plus

The overhead costs for a year + 10%

divide that total by the billable hours I have available for a year

Add 25% to that as a profit margin and there's my number.

So for example if I want my Salary to be $40,000 a year and my overhead is $5,000 a year (I would be working from home, and hardware costs are minimal)

Salary $40,000 + 30% = $52,000

Overhead $5,000 + 10% = $5,500

Total = $57,500

Billable hours = 1,200

$47.92 per hour + 25% = $59.90 hourly billing rate.

I was trying to buy some shares of Casual Male (CMRG) on my Scottrade account and it said I couldn't place a market order for shares valued less than a dollar. Is this some kind of standard that I don't know about, or is it something specific to my account. When I attempted to make the transaction I was trying to buy 100 shares @ 0.40 each. And yes I have the available balance to do it.

Does anyone have any advice for good charting software, something that is very inclusive. I am currently using the charts on yahoo finance, but as far as I know don't have a place to set up the indicators I want to use. I mean they are there, but I have to set it up everytime. Also I would like close to real time charts.

Does anyone have any advice on reading about the basics of macroeconomics? I will be taking a class on it in fall of 2009, but I am actually more interested to see how things are connected now. I would also be interested on reading about economic theories. Books or links to websites are welcome.

What is the one issue that makes or breaks a candidate for you.

Please stay away from character assassination just answer with your key issue.

I believe that noone is covering the issues that interest me and that is cheifly reducing government spending. The "conservative republican" side claims that they will cut taxes, but the fundamental problem is that they continue to spend, spend, spend. The "liberal democrat" side claims that they will reduce taxes for lower and middle classes and small business, but they want to create government programs which will make us continue to spend, spend, spend.

I guess my question is am I alone here? I don't mind paying taxes to try and get the national debt eliminated. But noone is talking about doing less at the Federal level and giving more power to the states. Both sides are ultimately trying to inflate the power of the national government.

Here is my situation, I am debt free aside from my mortgage which I have a good amount of equity in. I have 6 months worth of income in savings. I have a matched 401k at work which I have put at a high percent. I also have about $5,000 in the market.

So my options are open an IRA until I max that out for the year

OR

Start heavily investing in the market.

OR

A mixture of the two.

I don't have any kids nor do I plan to have any, I am married and 32 years old. I don't know which will work better for me. I don't mind taking some risk, but nothing as risky as frontier markets, I would like a small portion of my portfolio to provide income. My goal is to be able to retire at or before 50, I am hoping this is a realistic goal as my living conditions are very modest and I have a decent portion (60% left after bills and fun) of my income to play with.

Ok If I purchased an ETF today (7/15/08) that pays a dividend. And the fund has listed

Ex-Date Record Date Pay Date Rate/ Share

7/15/2008 7/17/2008 7/31/2008 0.17581

will I receive the dividend? Or did I miss the cutoff?

I am looking for a brand and model of a good starter sailboat. Here is my criteria, needs to seat 2 people comfortably, needs to be very light (able to be pulled by a regular truck). This will be exclusively used in man-made fresh water lakes. It will be for daytrips only so no cabin is needed. I would prefer something simple to rig and sail.

I guess my questions are

a) Why is this done

b) Is this a good thing?

c) How will it affect the dividends.

Eat only eggs, oatmeal, rice, vegetables, nuts (unsalted), beans and berries.

Supplement with a multi-vitamin. Drink only water green tea, water and one fruit juice (no sugar added) per day. Meals would total roughly 400 calories each and I would be eating 5 times a day. My maintainance caloric intake is 2500 calories per day, so I am shooting for 2000 per week to lose weight at a slow steady pace.

Where is the closest Iron ore to an anvil? I am a member and I don't need to bank I made my own nats (from my own mined ess). I just want to mine, superheat, smith iron knives and repeat. I am in the mining guild currently when iron is two clicks from anvil.

I would like to see attempts at unification across all weight classes in 2009 a tournament the pits the current title holders against their mandatory and then title holder against title holder until all titles in a division are unified. Titles I would invite would be the WBA, WBO, WBC and IBF. Opinions?

After dominating Katsidis (it was more one sided to me after watching a second time) he was calling out Pacquiao instead of Nate Campbell. I'd be interested to see Pac vs. Casa, but I don't know that it would generate the revenue. Personally I would prefer Pac v. Marquez III and Campbell vs. Casamayor II.

Thoughts?

I am looking for information on life insurance, really general stuff, like what the different policy types are and what should determine my decisions. Does anyone know of a general info site so I can arm myself with knowledge before talking to an agent?

I understand that ETFs have lower fees and I don't have the account minimum of Mutual funds, is there some reason I should take a mutual fund over an ETF?

I am currently investing in 6 mutual funds and have a set target percentage of each each time I contribute (the same amount on a set schedule) I put it towards the fund that is the farthest below its target percentage.

How do you calculate what total contributions you should make to a 529 plan. I am assuming a kid would start college 17 years from now and go to a state university for four years.