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Sometimes I say the dumbest things.?? I walked into my office today and one of my professors was standing there. Now you need to understand that this guy got his BS in 1962 so he’s almost 70 years old, but he has a very dominating personality.
Professor: Hey, there’s my man. What’s going on?
Me: I have [...]

Believe this 3.9% GDP growth for Q3 2007 if you wish, but I’m telling you that this number is flat out being manipulated by the government.
The implicit price deflator for the quarter was ONLY 0.7%
What’s does this mean? GDP deflator = (Nominal GDP)/(Real GDP) * 100 so it’s a measure of the inflation.
Q2 2007 [...]

Over the last 6 months, all the Federal Reserve has done is cheerlead the stock market. The Federal Reserve is the stock market’s ho. It has been apparent that the Federal Reserve does not care a single bit about inflation and will do whatever it takes to avert a recession even if it means severely [...]

I’m moving the bulk of my Roth IRA money out of the US dollar. The US dollar is getting downright scary. I moved some of it to MERKX last Monday, I’m moving more this week, and I’m scheduled to move another chunk one month from now.
There is absolutely no point in holding US [...]

Sales of new one-family houses in September 2007 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 770,000, according to stimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This is 4.8 percent (?10.3%)* above the revised August rate of 735,000, but is 23.3 percent (?8.0%) below the [...]

I got two hours of sleep last night and I’ll be lucky if I get any sleep tonight. I have a class project deadline tomorrow and I have NEVER in my history been so behind on the eve of a deadline for a circuit project. Man, where’s Toh Toh to write up the [...]

I was going to do some layout for my December tapeout today when I noticed that a node in my schematic was labeled incorrectly. Because I know I do not need to worry about noise, my 50 ohm input match is just a 50 ohm resistor in parallel with the input capacitance of a [...]

I have a tapeout deadline on December 4th and it is the worst possible tapeout date because the semester ends about the same time. The flipside is that the tapeout date is at the end of the semester so I can just go home when the semester ends instead of having the tapeout eat out [...]

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/071015/lam092.html?.v=101
Broadcom Leaps Ahead of the Competition with the World’s First ‘3G Phone on a Chip’ Solution
Over a Year Ahead of Competitors, Broadcom Introduces Single-Chip HSUPA Processor
BCM21551 Features Full CMOS RF, Rich Multimedia, Bluetooth(R), FM Radio, FM Transmitter and More, Packed on a Single 65nm Die to Slash Price, Size and Power
IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ [...]

A few days ago I blogged that your FDIC insurance is worthless because the banks are doing all kinds of crazy off-balance sheet crap.
Today we get this:

The high-stakes plan to rescue banks from losses on mortgage securities amounts to a big bet that a consortium of financial giants — at the prodding of the U.S. [...]