Real estate investors have become a cliché during the past 3-4 years. It seems like everyone you talk to is a real estate investor or knows someone who is. What makes real estate investing so popular? In the past few years you could do no wrong with real estate. With profits in the five and six...
Read More →Hi. Enough with the greetings, I'm not here to make friends, I'm here to make you think! Everything you have been told about the Stock Market is bullshit and I'm here to prove it to you. There are a lot of topics I want to cover and instead of just saying "Mutual Funds Suck", "Diversification is...
Read More →In a previous blog entry, about a month and a half ago, I commented on how oil will not reach 100 USD per barrel. I posed the argument that to reach a doubling of the oil price would require the price to reach 160USD, which would have devasted the economies of the world. Now oil is dropping and...
Read More →Here goes... my first attempt at a video stock review. I take a look at Advanced Environmental Recycling Technology (NASDAQ:AERTA), which has had a recent sell-off due to a factory delay. Is this a buying opportunity or should we be jumping ship too? Ugly from uglychart.com and I talked about...
Read More →This article originally appeared on thinkingaboutmoney.com on June 20th, 2006. One of the things I’ve learned in the past month is that diversification - the “holy grail” of investing, is not what it is cracked up to be. In fact, I’ve come to realize that one of my immediate investing goals...
Read More →Suze Orman's latest Yahoo article titled The Parent Trap addresses the issues Boomers are facing with grown kids moving back in, as well as aging parents. I see another problem here, my own personal parent trap. Let me esplain... My parents were crazy youngsters when hey had me, divorced when I was...
Read More →It seems that even your credit card's rewards points are not safe from the terror of inflation. This is a real credit card offer I got the other day (click for larger image): [](/images/wachovia_credit_offer_lg.jpg) Are we supposed to be fooled by this? I'll let things sink in a bit before I do any...
Read More →Thought I'd share a few articles I found over the past week or two, that I think are worth a read. We have two articles from BusinessWeek. The first one profiling great companies with which to launch one's career. Lucky me I work for one of them ;-). Content is still King, but it seems that the...
Read More →Yesterday’s WSJ (subscription required) reported that Yahoo's CEO, Terry Semel, hinted of a slowdown in search ad revenue growth. Significant news - search ad revenue growth has always been on the incline. His statement preceded a 12% drop in the stock price for YHOO (rival GOOG took a hit as well,...
Read More →The big news this week has been the failure of the hedge fund Amaranth. Reports are stating that, in just a few days, the fund's value fell about 50% from a high of $9.5 Billion. The fund is down "just" 35% on the year, thanks to a nice 25% gain last month. Most of the funds early gains and...
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