Archive for November, 2011

• 13 Unusual Facts About the Saddest Photo in the Great Depression
  Posted by James Altucher on November 30th, 2011 at 8:55 am, Comments: 0

  Last night I was on CNBC’s Fast Money. Everyone seems to want to talk about the impending Great Depression: Europe fails, contagion spreads it to [...]

• 5 Unusual Things I Learned from Isaac Asimov
  Posted by James Altucher on November 29th, 2011 at 7:47 am, Comments: 0

  The second time the police were called to pick me up I was fifteen years old. I was originally going to type “the first time” [...]

• How To Be the Best At Anything You Want to Do
  Posted by James Altucher on November 27th, 2011 at 6:42 pm, Comments: 0

  I’m writing this while sitting in a hotel room. To my left is the Pacific Ocean and all the magical San Francisco fog stuff people [...]

• Pearl Harbor Caused the Financial Crisis of 2008
  Posted by James Altucher on November 25th, 2011 at 3:13 pm, Comments: 0

  Pearl Harbor ruined my life. I’m going to cut right to the chase. When the Japanese invaded Pearl Harbor, provoking our massive WW II response, [...]

• Thank You, Claudia
  Posted by James Altucher on November 24th, 2011 at 9:47 am, Comments: 0

  Thanks for getting better from the Lyme disease. You’ve been sick since August and quite frankly, it’s been a real drag for me. Thanks for [...]

• How to Negotiate in Three Easy Lessons
  Posted by James Altucher on November 22nd, 2011 at 11:14 am, Comments: 0

  When I was reading Walter Isaacson’s biography on Steve Jobs it suddenly brought back memories of the FBI repeatedly hitting the buzzer for my apartment [...]

• When I Retire I Will…
  Posted by James Altucher on November 20th, 2011 at 8:36 pm, Comments: 0

  I was about three years old and my dad scared the hell out of me. It was the first day of Yellow Duck nursery school. [...]

• ASK JAMES: PERFECTIONISM, SHAME, WHO WAS THE BEST PRESIDENT, WHAT’s MY BIGGEST FEAR?
  Posted by James Altucher on November 19th, 2011 at 9:14 am, Comments: 0

  Every week I do a Twitter Q&A from 3:30 – 4:30. What was fun about this one was that I did it from San Francisco, [...]

• 10 Things I Didn’t Learn in College
  Posted by James Altucher on November 17th, 2011 at 2:51 pm, Comments: 0

  I’ve written before on 10 reasons Parents Should Not Send Their Kids to College and here is also Eight Alternatives to College but it’s occurred [...]

• Being Unpredictable Will Free You
  Posted by James Altucher on November 16th, 2011 at 9:17 am, Comments: 0

  I just got this email from a friend of mine: “in Mexico… got grazed by a bullet that wound up infected, and then I got [...]