Daniel Eskin

Plenty of Upside Remaining for Microsoft

Well argued but I still think MSFT is too inconsistent year over year to provide solid price appreciation. Dividend stock - maybe, but seems like that's what you're in it for. good luck!

Google Should Make Apple Beg for Maps Navigation

Wow extremely insightful article. Thanks!

George Soros: The Guru Outlook

I certainly agree with you on Soro's intelligence. Reading his most recent book was quite a personal challenge to understand and I learned a lot. It's so agreeable that the US has long-term structure problems; it's more than a short-term thing. This is a good reminder to keep in mind compared to a lot more bullish article going on right now.

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On Oct 29 08:35 AM bexe wrote:

> Soros is a brilliant man and he knows the game.
> There is so much fraud in the system that favors those who have the
> power and are in the right place to take advantage of it. Banks like
> Goldman is making a killing from these "gifts", as Soros calls it
> or namely very cheap money (seekingalpha.com/symbo...),
> and also the very sinister HFT (high frequency trading) which is
> computerized insider trading that happens in a nano second.

Ten Products that Boomed During Recession

That's so interesting that you mentioned Hyundai has been doing well. A few colleagues and I were just discussing that their quality and reliability since about 2000/2001 has been quite strong as compared to Honda and Toyota, which followed a subsequent increase in sales relative to those two competitiors. I think the next step for Hyundai is to step up from the "junky" image and they're really been trying to do that with the Genesis and Genesis Coupe. I personally drive an IS250 but the Genesis Coupe was probably my second choice when I was car shopping, so interesting to see that they are doing better now.

AND we have a Keurig coffee machine in the office here so I can relate =)

I wrote a similar article on my blog about recession investing not too long ago, check it out: bit.ly/1b7QJ4

Where Is the Gaming Industry Headed?

Wow! VERY Cool article. I wonder how accurate that Apple daily revenue potential is because seems like a major cash cow right now... esPECIALLY as Apple gets deeper and deeper into the remote gaming market.

Also, as a gamer during my entire life, I would find it VERY surprising if the OnLive idea actually succeeded. I'm an avid believer that the future generation of gaming is online with other players (much related to social media today, and is already here with XBox Live), but serious gamers really don't care about having, as you mentioned, "real estate" in their living room. If the system is worth it, like Ps3 or whatever comes out next, the graphics and speed will justify having the tower in their living room. Who cares that it's there? A majority of controllers nowadays are wireless anyway. The extent of problems (slow, huge controller, always need to be online) with an always on-line system will definitely not be worth it compared to the benefits (just not having the system there).

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Awful Investing Advice of the Day, Distressed-Mortgages Edition

Wow that almost seems like a satirical piece that people would be lured into and then the ending would really hit you in the forehead. Investing in toxic assets shouldn't even be called investing, but more appropriately trading or even gambling.

I was actually listening to a podcast today and apparently AIG (considerably toxic) is starting to get analyst coverage again today. How the heck is ANYBODY claiming that they understand what is going on in that company? Some people...

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Dow 10,000: Better This Time Around?

As a matter of fact, I just read from Howard Lindzon's tweet that the DOW passed 10,000 fifty times in the decade since the DOW first passed 10,000. Kinda cool if you want to analyze movement =)

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On Oct 15 01:06 AM Just checkin wrote:

> This is the 3rd time we've hit Dow 10,000.....

The Bond Investor's Dilemma

Well said Alan. I agree with the comment above that the Fed is just acting as it naturally feels is appropriate, despite that everybody out of the Fed feels it is the incorrect move.

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What Hedge Funds Are Buying and Selling Now

Really interesting that there were shorts on silver. from what I've investigated lately, I'm very bullish on silver based on it's lower increase (% based) than increases in gold. I feel like there's more room for it to expand than gold now, despite that gold hit all time highs yesterday. But it's very predictable that precious metals investing as a whole is increasing now with the state of the economy. Schiff and many others have been advocating it for the last few years. About time investors listened.

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The Differences Between Markets Now and 1929, 1973 and 2000

Wow what an interesting comparison - thanks for sharing! You can definitely see the sevarity of the situation and how people reacted to it with such a steep drop in the markets (similarly to the great depression) compared to a more gradual one.

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Unemployment: We're Not Out of the Woods Yet

What I don't understand is why everybody is saying that less unemployment claims is good news. It's still really damn high. This is terrible news. On an absolute basis, unemploymend in the country is at like 9.6% (heard on a podcast this morning) and until unemployment claims drop to a significantly lower number than the last few months I would definitely agree we're not out of the woods.

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Falling Dollar: Finally Front-Page News

Feels like the BRIC countries should be turned into BRICJ - Japan's Yen has been growing quite strongly against the dollar as well.

The raminifications of a declining dollar are actually huge. You captured it relatively well, but at the worst it could lead to a massive paradigm shift in the the world where US is no longer the controlling power it is today (and already declining). At the best, US is going to get a lot less bargaining power in the world and the dollar could even be pushed off the rails as the leading currency.

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Beware the Next Bubble

Well said waf76; seems like the government is really intervening more than they have the past and it's almost like the whole paradigm of government intervention is shifting. They're spending more money and as you said, it's leading to a bigger hole of debt which I'm sure somebody is going to trip into.

The Market Is Priced to Perfection

Wow very well written... pretty scary to just throw all those facts in together, but it's true, the government in this time has really caused a lot of damage that will be very hard to fix... and yet keeps wanting to spend more on things like a health reform - that could wait until we're out of this economic slump.

To answer your rhetorical question of what to do when nothign is left for a rainy day? .... unfortunately probably print more pennies... aka hyperinflation. But let's hope for the best that it doesn't turn out that way. Nothing is certain until it happens.

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Is Marc Faber Right About the U.S. Dollar?

It actually scares me how things like this can be discussed in such a casual tone. From my point of view the Fed is really screwing around with the dollar's value, and with that the whole country's reputation. When (and if) people start actually responding to this, the ramifications could be huge and the entire US financial system could be in danger. Maybe even something as bad as hyperinflation.... let's hope for better...

Regardless, Peter Schiff has been saying the same thing for a while now and I agree with his and Faber's Pov - the US racked up some SERIOUS debt and I just don't understand how one nation could be the debtor nation for longer than it's due... eventually the debt must shift to another nation in the world and that makes the US' role in the world quite diminished.

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