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Remember the Flanders Fields This Weekend
Posted by Jeff Carter on May 24th, 2013 at 8:30 am, Comments: 0It’s Memorial Day weekend. What are you doing for it? Traditionally, Americans get together and have one of the first barbeque’s of the season. This [...]
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Video to Warm Your Heart on a Sunday
Posted by Jeff Carter on April 7th, 2013 at 9:53 am, Comments: 0Whatever you think about the Nebraska Cornhusker football program, it does have a lot of class. Nebraska fans are some of the nicest football fans [...]
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Points and Figures Final Four Challenge-It’s March Madness
Posted by Jeff Carter on March 17th, 2013 at 5:39 pm, Comments: 0It’s tournament time. I used to host a party at my house every year for the tourney. In the fall, I’d go deer hunting and [...]
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Tourney Time
Posted by Jeff Carter on March 9th, 2013 at 10:56 am, Comments: 0One of my favorite things is March Madness. Conference tournaments start this weekend. I have been really pre-occupied this college season, so I haven’t seen [...]
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MTXE-A Phrase That Pays
Posted by Jeff Carter on January 27th, 2013 at 8:40 am, Comments: 0We like to turn everything into abbreviations these days. Feels like speaking the english language is changing to military speak. The military famously abbreviates everything. [...]
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Which Harbaugh Will Wear This Shirt At the Harbowl?
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The Grove at Ole Miss Today
Posted by Jeff Carter on September 15th, 2012 at 8:35 am, Comments: 0Today I am hosting a tent in The Grove at Ole Miss. They play Texas. If you can make it, stop on by. We are [...]
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1992 Dream Team vs 2012 Olympic Team
Posted by Jeff Carter on July 28th, 2012 at 2:16 pm, Comments: 0Lebron James cracked that this Olympic Team is better than the Dream Team of 1992. Kobe Bryant agrees. They must be smoking something pretty good. [...]
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Is It Government and Luck? Or Hard Work And Skill?
Posted by Jeff Carter on July 15th, 2012 at 11:36 am, Comments: 0Yesterday, President Obama said that the rich in the US were lucky. They didn’t get to where they got by anything other than being helped, [...]
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Always Be Alert
Posted by Jeff Carter on July 15th, 2012 at 10:29 am, Comments: 0Have seen some mental lapses in baseball since the season resumed. This one last night was exciting.
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Why Baseball is the American Game
Posted by Jeff Carter on April 7th, 2012 at 8:42 am, Comments: 0Lot of folks went out to the ballpark this week. The national pastime started another season. Football captivates the American soul these days. More people [...]
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Root Root Root For the Red Tails!
Posted by Jeff Carter on April 3rd, 2012 at 3:00 pm, Comments: 0My pal Todd Ricketts was on CNBC($GE) with Rick Santelli this morning to celebrate the kick off of the baseball season. Todd is also heavily [...]
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I Don’t Get It (cont)
Posted by Jeff Carter on March 22nd, 2012 at 1:06 pm, Comments: 0Paul Ryan put out a budget that Senate Democrats immediately criticized. I don’t get it. Shouldn’t Senate Democrats put out their own budget before they [...]
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Don’t You Love Hockey?!!
Posted by Jeff Carter on March 21st, 2012 at 12:00 pm, Comments: 0No words can describe it!
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Stop SOPA Now; Why It’s Important To The Average Joe
Posted by Jeff Carter on January 18th, 2012 at 8:39 am, Comments: 0You might not of heard of SOPA. Stop Online Piracy Act. The sentiment for the law comes from people on the internet that steal content. [...]
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Why The Denigration of Tebow the Christian?
Posted by Jeff Carter on January 15th, 2012 at 12:13 pm, Comments: 0I guess I don’t understand all the Tebow hype. The kid had a great college career and is now in the learning process of becoming [...]
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Do You Want To Be A Success? Do You Want To Achieve Happiness?
Posted by Jeff Carter on January 8th, 2012 at 6:53 pm, Comments: 0Print this out and stick it to your wall. John Wooden was a tremendous college basketball coach at UCLA. He had a lot of great [...]
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2012 Tech Trends and Themes
Posted by Jeff Carter on December 31st, 2011 at 9:07 am, Comments: 0One theme in the video I linked to yesterday on 2012 tech trends disturbed me. A couple interview subjects saw the internet as an agent [...]
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Jeffrey Carter is an angel investor and independent trader. He specializes in turning concepts into profits. He co-founded Hyde Park Angels one of the most active angel groups in the United States in April of 2007. He previously served on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Board of Directors. He has done market commentary for (More...) -
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