This one goes out to the media for scaring the crap out of everyone for a week, then doing these "holier than thou" pieces on, ironically, how the media overhyped the swine flu. Entire school districts of thousands of students shut down; Egypt is killing pigs (Great Quote: "Killing (pigs) is not a solution, otherwise, we should kill the people, because the virus spreads through them," ) and the media - Wow, full circle so quickly! Will this go down as the great swine flu swindle? Yes, of course I did a few articles on swine flu investments, but did rightly point out that the media will hype the heck out of this, the swine flu stocks (there are actually swine flu indices now!)will fall back to earth and that anyone making predictions about what will happen with it has no scientific credibility.

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And How Are Things at Darwin's Finance?

In a nutshell, great. While traffic's steady and I've continued to enjoy the reader interactions and blogger collaborations at Everyday Finance, Darwin's Finance is growing by leaps and bounds since its launch (below-several thousand per month in growth to 11,000 views in April!). After jumping right to a page rank 3 during the first Google page rank update and garnering decent search traffic for my articles, my traffic there's growing so quickly that Darwin's Finance may very well surpass this blog in traffic within the next couple months. I'm also well over 100 RSS/email subscribers there which is ahead of schedule.




In no particular order and spanning posts in Investing, Personal Finance and Rants from my blog here, as well as my new blog Darwin's Finance, here are the top posts from April:

Why were the Risk-Averse so Heavily Invested in Stocks?

6 Prudent Uses for your Tax Refund This Year

High Yield Bond ETF - 12% Yield + Share Gains Looking Attractive

24 Dividend Increases in a Row from a Company You've Never Heard of

4.2% Mortgage Rates on the Horizon Says Study

Advanta High Yield Notes: 8.5% - 11% Yield Worth the Risk?

Colombia ETF - A Return to Supercharged Frontier Market Returns?

Apple Volatility at Earnings Play - Just Right

Refi Rates Low, but Banks Aren't Lending?

Swine Flu Investment Ideas

Best CD Yields in April 2009

What I Learned at the Park - An Easy $400 per Hour!

A Lesson in Volatility prior to Earnings Releases: Google Options

Is Shop To Earn a Scam or Legit Business Opportunity?

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