Financial innovation - with a dash of celebrity to spice things up!
We open today by paraphrasing The Terminator's Sarah Connor: "Come on. Do I look like the mother governor of the future? I mean, am I tough, organized? I can't even balance my checkbook! " Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor of the beleaguered state of California, is tough, no question about that - he's the Terminator, for Christ's sake - but he is certainly having enormous and well-publicized problems balancing the checkbook of the state he runs. What's a governor like Arnold going to do? Apparently he's borrowing an innovative financial tactic from another Sarah in his life - Sarah Palin - he's selling things on eBay. (Of course there was no end of controversy about Palin's claims to have sold the state's plane on eBay, but that's another story for another time...) According to Money Central on msn.com , the Governor is autographing automobiles to sell on eBay, in an attempt to close the deficit gap. Used cars. (Maybe he ...