$700 Billion or $7 Trillion: It Makes No Difference
That’s right, I said it. It doesn’t matter how much money Mr. Paulson, Mr. Bernanke, President Stupid or every member of Congress approves to fill the greed bucket of Wall Street. There is a crisis for...
View ArticleYAY! The Markets Have Rallied…
“SH*T”… Us Bottom Feeders hate that. Well folks, the Stock Market is following in Classic Form… Last week we had an enormous Panic Sell Off dropping the DOW by almost 7.5% in one day and the total...
View ArticleBernanke & Paulson Have Done A Lousy Job
Treasury Secretary. I also said that we should re-enact a form of Glass Steagall (Bring Back Glass Steagall). What can I say…no one listens! And what I consider the worst part of this whole mess is...
View ArticleNo, It’s Not The End of The Western World…
But it may be the end of capitalism as we have known it. Let’s face it, without herculean and unprecedented concerted global governmental intervention in the financial markets around the world, to the...
View Article3 Things To Do With Your Money Right Now
It is terrible out there. There is so much to keep up with, between what happened with the Macs (Fannie and Freddie), then Lehman, then Merrill, then AIG, and then the Bailout, and now another Bailout,...
View ArticleAre You a Taxpayer or a Shareholder?
Yes, this is a trick question. Millions of Americans, of course, are both, whether we like it or not. And we have our dismal 401k balances to prove it. If you don’t have a 401k, come out of the cave...
View ArticleThe Stock Investor: An Analysis of Google. Part One.
Using part of my meager stock budget, I bought two (yes, TWO) shares of Google on December 16, 2008. Price – $334 per share ( including purchase and eventual selling fees.) On Jan 20th, 2009, the stock...
View ArticleDid You Foolishly Lock In Your Losses?
Last year when the stock market had tanked badly I wrote about how I wasn’t worried and adopted the attitude of “wait.” I also accelerated the contributions to my Roth IRA for the year at that time as...
View ArticleAlternative Energy Stocks: Their Time Has Come
Though we certainly have a long way to go, most will agree that the economy is looking up. Just a few weeks ago, Jeffery wrote about positive signs in the real estate market. In this article, I’d like...
View ArticleA look inside Greece’s Economy
[Neil Gosling wrote this for us to see what is really going on inside the Greek economy. This is part one of a new International series.] Greece has been in the news a lot recently, you have probably...
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