But can you lie convincingly and effortlessly? That is where the real money is in Finance. That and leverage. Everything is better with leverage.

Do both... engineering undergrad and then a Finance MBA is a pretty marketable set of degrees. Once you get through engineering most financial equations are a breeze and employers view the combination as someone with the ability to apply their knowledge instead of an ivory tower type MBA.

So how hard would it be to buy this thing and then wash the title? Asking for a friend. A friend who is writing a whitepaper about title washing. So, how hard would it be and what would it cost?

Indeed. If you do it cheap enough it truly would be a “once in a lifetime opportunity .”

Years ago, my father used to cruise garage sales and buy beaten-up Craftsman tools. I think Sears still offers the lifetime warranty on them now, but they certainly offered the warranty back then. He would get them for a few bucks and drive straight to the Sears hardware and trade them in under warranty for new…

That's the spirit! When life gives you lemons, make limoncello!

The problem with using income is that it generally carves out the truly wealthy. Under this system guy A (or girl) who is worth $50M (for sake of argument let's say he inherited it too) and earns 5% a year on his assets makes $2.5M a year in income. Yet, using income as the basis for fines, guy A would pay less in a…

Why can't they make a minivan/SUV crossover, hell, throw in hybrid on top if you want. What I really mean is why can't they make an SUV that has the sliding doors/interior layout of a minivan? A lot of folks already use their SUVs as child transport anyway and I think the sliding door capability would increase the…

How does the Challenger handle the roads in Virginia? I think you should take it there for the weekend and really put it through its paces.

How about the Bat Bronco? "A 72-time trophy winner at various custom car shows in the New York area, it is more than suitable for everyday driving as well." On the one hand it is a Bronco in decent mechanical shape, on the other hand...

As a matter of practice you should never compare equity returns to interest payments. There is a lot more risk in the equity markets than most people account for (2007 anyone?). So, yes the DJ and S&P are up this year, but they are up partly because of the low rate environment and when/if rates tick up you should…