Title: “Payback Time: Making Big Money Is the Best Revenge!”

Author: Phil Town

Rank: 6

Blurb: “Payback Time’s risk-free approach is called ‘stockpiling’ and it’s how billionaires get rich in bad markets. It’s a set of rules for investing (not trading but investing) in the right businesses at the right time — rules that will ensure you make the big money.”

Suggested Tags from Similar Products: “investing”, “finance”, and “garbage”.

Customers Also Bought: “Jim Cramer’s Stay Mad for Life: Get Rich, Stay Rich (Make Your Kids Even Richer),” by Jim Cramer and Cliff Mason (published December 4, 2007)

Footnote: We’ve been informally tracking the Amazon Top 100 for almost a year and a half, and we don’t recall seeing a get-rich-quick book recently. So we’ll take this as an informal leading indicator that Americans are almost ready to play the casino again.

Payback Time [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

• It’s the warmest winter on record! Suck it, Northeast! [Express UK, NYT]
• Killer Iceberg breaks loose in Antarctica; comparisons to Rhode Island forthcoming. [BBC]
• House votes 315-97 to extend Patriot Act, rivaling original 357-66 vote in 2001. [Wired]
• Carly Simon still won’t reveal namesake of “You’re So Vain”; Boomers maintain stranglehold on America into a new decade. [Vanity Fair]

Meet Daniel Stout, the most awesome dude in the world.

Danny — can we do this on a first-name basis? Thanks, dude! — was just elected to the Georgia House. Danny, a family-values Republican, replaced the district’s prior family-values Republican, who resigned after his ex-wife called him out for having “a full-out affair” with a lobbyist while they were married.

Read more »

Bollocks!

Senate Democrats spent Thursday night hammering away at Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) for single-handedly holding up action in the upper chamber — but he blurted out a message to one of them on the Senate floor: “Tough s—t.”

Suit? Spit? Slat? Stat? Slit? Tell us, Politico! We can handle it.

Sen. Jim Bunning holds floor: ‘Tough s–t’ [Politico]

Er, sorry. Some asshole kid got our fucking state legislature to ban cussing for a goddam week, so we have to get the filth out of our system in advance.

Assembly approves ‘cuss-free week’ [Sacramento Bee]

No Cussing Club

Trust us, it ain’t easy — every time we’ve tried this trick, we only get farts:

“This whole dog and pony show that we’re about to witness today is something that should have taken place a year ago when the administration first came in last February and laid out its agenda for health care. This is how you should have started it. Bipartisan. Public forum. C-SPAN. Your cameras rolling to capture this, and to capture most importantly what the American people want.”

Hey, guess what? They did.

Steele: ‘Dog And Pony’ Televised Health Care Summit ‘Should Have Taken Place A Year Ago’ [ThinkProgress]

This is being pitched by TPM as an “attack” and a “testy exchange” by John McCain on Barack Obama at today’s Healthcare Circus Summit. If so, we need to read more Henry James.

Read more »