Ad Blocking - A Growth Industry

So just last week the number one paid app on the apple app store was a three day old ad blocker. The developer of this ad blocker had "a change of heart" after the app had been out for three or four days and pulled it. Today I fire up my work computer that has the very popular AdBlock extension installed, only to find that it was now participating in the "Acceptable Ads program" and if you read the fine print, the developer is selling his company. It's enough to make you go HUMM? who is bribing/buying up these popular ad blockers.

PS Also last week, Bloomberg had a article that outlined the joke that online adds had become because of bots and the ad blockers.

Grexit

All I have to say about the Greece "issue" is that if you have money with someone and that someone loses any statistically significant amount* of it because of the Greece issue, replace that person now. This has been a six year train wreck in the making.

*unless you were positioned for multiple Greek/Euro possibilities. If you were, then you accepted the risk/reward profile and any money lost/gained is part of the game.

Its a Health INSURANCE Bill People!!!

As I have written before, the "Affordable Care Act" was neither affordable nor concerned with your care. It was and is a mandatory insurance bill. How is this now more affordable? How has care gotten better because the government subsidizes approx 85% of the premium increase for those who signed up. What about those of us that had insurance coverage before this act? If you don't feel the pain of the increase then you don't care. If you don't care then nothing will change. Meanwhile the medical group that I "subscribe" to, continues to build monuments to itself while paying its CEO 10's of millions all the while keeping its "non-profit" status. Fun.