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I recently learned that it would cost me $200,000 to graduate from my Alma mater. It made me wonder if the cost was worth it.

Nikesh Arora believes that eventually all smaller Blogs and content providers will get squeezed out and the survivors will start to charge. Will you pay?

According to a recent investment made my Microsoft, Facebook, the popular online site has a valuation of $15b on revenue of several hundred million dollars. News Corp. which owns the larger social networking site MySpace, and which has $30 billion in annual revenue has a market value of $70 billion. Either Facebook is way overvalued or New Corp. is way undervalued.

The hype meter on the iPad device got so high over the past few weeks that we expected the new device to surf the web, cook a meal, and do the laundry. Unfortunately, the device doesn't do any of that, or anything at all that would make it succeed where other tablet devices have failed.

Gold has continued to go up over the last couple of months and now sits as at close to a 10 year high. Will it continue to go up? I believe so and here is why:

Fed Chairman Ben Barnanke gave a speech today to the Economic Club of New York in which he said it was too early to tell if the worst was over from the credit crunch. He had a few other interesting nuggets of insight.

Home heating oil prices in Massachusetts have risen to a record level and they're expecting them to go higher.

The collapse of Sowood Capital is a good example of the perils of leverage.

Jordan's Furniture, a store owned by Warren Buffett, made a bet with its customers last spring that if the Red Sox won the world series, any furniture (sofas, tables, mattresses) purchased between March 7 and April 16 would be free. The company is now looking at the very real prospect of paying back millions of dollars.

The musical chairs continue at Fidelity and the latest to get caught without a chair is Ellyn McColgan. The media seem to think Ned Johnson is letting go of his key people, but I think Ned knows exactly what he is going - revitalizing a rather stagnant giant.

Akamai's stock has risen fallen, and risen again like an ocean wave. The Internet continues to grow and yet Akamai's stock has tumbled recently. I think it's long term prospects are pretty good.