Delta and Northwest Airlines Annouce a Merger

Holy crap, that's a BIG airline!

Personally, I haven't flown on either since the early 80's when rode Northwest a few times. My family is a United family now, and will probably stay that way. Although I did take a trip on JetBlue last year, and really enjoyed the experience.

Not much more to blog on regarding this merger. It's just been announced, and the pundits haven't had much of a chance to tear the idea to pieces. No doubt there will be the usual winging about reduced options and monopolies... blah blah blah.

Read the official announcement HERE.

The Importance of Diversification

Here's an article I wrote for Helium a long time ago on diversification of investment portfolios. It's targeted at the relative beginner who is just getting started with investing. Spread your money around. As the old saying goes, don't put all your eggs in one investment basket.

Diversification is the single most important element of building an
investment portfolio. Regardless of whether you invest in stocks,
bonds, mutual funds, pieces of art, or llama farms, having your money
spread around to multiple investments is a necessary strategy.

What does it mean to diversify your investments? It simply means
that you put your money in a wide range of different investments.
Whatever it may be that you are investing in, be sure to spread your
money around. It is important to do this in order to spread out your
risk. If you have all your money in a single investment and that
investment goes broke, you are in big trouble. If you have your money
spread you in multiple investments and one goes bad, you still have all
the others to "protect" you.

The Importance of Diversification

Investments for Rookies - An Introduction to Investing

Hello and welcome back to the Capitalist Pig! It's been a long time since I got this blog up and running, and now it's time to re-energize it with some content. I'm going to get things rolling with an article I wrote for Helium a while back. It's a very basic primer on investing, written for an audience that is just getting started with saving and investing money. I've included the first two paragraphs here... to read the rest, please CLICK HERE and read the entire article at Helium. Enjoy!

"Getting started with investing is certainly an intimidating
prospect. When you invest your money in something, you want to be sure
that it is at least somewhat safe, and that you are putting it in an
investment that will earn you the best return for your hard earned
dollar.

Investing well takes time and knowledge. It's important to learn as
much as you can about where you are putting your money. You do this to
avoid getting cheated, to ensure proper diversification of your money
and to be sure to get a good rate of return."

Welcome to the Capitalist Pig

Just a quick post to get things off the ground here. This blog will have a simple focus - unapologetically promote Capitalism in all it's splendor and glory. Socialism and it's ugly cousin Communism are evils that must be stamped out. If you want to eliminate poverty in the world, the quickest and best way is to promote a capitalist culture worldwide.

I'll be writing commentary on various economic issues. Everything from the stock market to Wal-Mart. The occasional political rant will naturally be included, especially when some dim-wit politician does something to hurt the concept of free markets (an event which seems to happen all too often).

Also included on the blog will be various critiques of interesting products and services, again with a bent toward how they relate to the Capitalist economic system.

In the meantime, I'm off to find some content to include!