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25 November 2008 | 3 replies
There are no deductions for anything you're doing, with the possible exception of specific items like energy efficiency improvements.
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27 December 2008 | 7 replies
When former energy trading giant Enron filed for bankruptcy in 2001, one of the largest at the time, it had $63.4 billion in assets.U.S. prosecutors charged Madoff, 70, with a single count of securities fraud.
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20 September 2009 | 14 replies
Don't waste your time, energy, and legal fees and just move on.
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17 December 2008 | 7 replies
The reasoning is simple, it takes a LOT of energy and effort to get someone from 0-8 deals.
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2 January 2009 | 9 replies
Since the beginning of 08, I have diversified to include film, bio-ventures, government and aerospace, and oil & energy.
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14 February 2009 | 19 replies
You'll save a couple hundred bucks a year on printer ink, you'll save a couple bucks a month on a fax line and you'll use a little less energy in your home with 1 less piece of electronic equipment.
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18 September 2009 | 51 replies
No more welfare, unemployment, minimum wage, social security or medicare (for people who are under 50 now), medicaid, Section 8, EPA, department of education, department of energy, OSHA, etc.
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22 January 2009 | 3 replies
I mean if you consider your time + hardware + curb appeal of new energy efficient windows?
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28 March 2009 | 25 replies
Just don't sell off all the energy companies, or you'll be at the mercy of foreigners for what you pay for energy.
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27 June 2009 | 32 replies
I've never heard a real-estate investor talk about real-estate investing with such enthusiasm, energy, and love of the work like the Crocodile Hunter did about his "job".