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Options Trader: Tuesday Outlook [view article]
What accident at the South Carolina plant for Boeing? This has not been reported nor does it reflect in the stock at this point. ReplyOptions Trader: Monday Outlook [view article]
Energy Independance: Carter killed nuclear, Clinton gutted the military and taxed us to death, G W Bush using the best info available took on Sadam but could not find his stash of WMD.Are we any better off ? Iran would love to take over Iraq in a heartbeat and with the oil they already have even our military couldn't fill the tank in a tank.
Skip ahead to November: IF we can turn it around in Iraq Israel stays on the map, the price of oil drops below $100 /bl , the middle east cools off, no more twintowers, we drill where we need to, we use wind, nuclear, coal, geothermal, hydro, tidal, solar, biofuel where they're profitable and we move away from oil as fast as we can (decades). Reply
Options Trader: Tuesday Outlook [view article]
Good comment on Dow component substitution. Technically, past years' Dow data should be recast using substituted components. Is there such a study? ReplyOptions Trader: Monday Outlook [view article]
Prudent man is not all wrong. Take a look at who was running congress in those years of R presidential profligacy. The current massive deficit can be traced back to the vote that took place in November of 2001 in which other people entirely decided how America and the world would spend their money in the next decade. A few disasters and a couple of wars later with loose money to float all the effort - well, here we are. ReplyOptions Trader: Monday Outlook [view article]
Hardhead - I would love it if you have links to that GS action.Prudent, I think you may be mixed up (understandable at your age), Hoover was a Republican, Roosevelt was a Democrat who cleaned up the mess. Nixon/Ford sent this country into a financial crisis, Carter tried to reign in the madness and was quickly replaced by even the even greater spending madness of Reagan/Bush the 1st, who were Republicans who oversaw the first major debt expansion and the S&L crisis. Cinton was the Democrat who cut spending and raised the country out of the gutter.
The Republicans haven't been the party of restraint since Lincoln and they shot him and then the "radical republicans of Congress" tried to impeach him for violating an act they passed while he was President. They replaced him with Grant, who was the puppet president who ushered in the age of carpet-bagging and created a financial crisis through greed and exploitation that was so excessive that the Republicans were voted out of power in his second term. Sound familiar?
Also familiar was the "Black Friday" crisis under Grant in his first term where gold speculators wrecked the markets while Grant waited for thier OK to "fix" the markets. Another good one pulled under Grant was the "Whiskey Ring" in which over $3M in taxes were stolen by high government officials. The leader of the gang was pardoned by Grant.
There were MANY other sickening abuses of our democracy under Grant - he was the template for the modern Republican administrations you worship today, a puppet leader controlled from behind the curtain by the powers that be...
Junkyard - I agreee. I wrote an article called "Burn Dollars to Fight Gravity" pretty much on that subject and predicted this would be the policy the administration would pursue under Paulson back when they first picked him. I just never imagined they would push things this far!
Unfortunately, oil is the only "safe-looking&quo... place to put money with everything else melting down.
Don't even get me started on Cheney Rono!
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Tech's Most Popular CEOs [view article]
Folks - Check out this website www.thesmartpro.org which is pretty much the same without the unwanted details. How many employees want to know the approval rating of the CEO before deciding to accept the offer?Smartpro is neat, it classifies the responses under categories that are important and relevant to employees. It’s free and not for profit!
It does not have millions of dollars to promote like Glassdoor but is quietly aiming to provide newletters, jobs, reviews, ratings, industry benchmarks et al. All for free.
check it out at www.thesmartpro.org
-B
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Options Trader: Monday Outlook [view article]
I think the real problem lies with our so called vice president who's former employer,haliburton,ha... all the contracts in Iraq or sub-contracted thur other companies, and then,what george bush sr.could not do with with the so-called wepons of mass destruction, George W. has buried us with mass debt!! And we still have yet to receive a barrel of oil from Iraq!!For those who watched 60 Minutes last nite,the christians in Iraq have either been killed or left the Country!! enough said,I think you can get the picture!!!!!! Pray For Us ReplyOptions Trader: Monday Outlook [view article]
The most recent spike in oil looks like short covering. Until the shorts come back into the oil market it is clear sailing to the upside as index funds and other investors stake their positions. Commodities are where the action is and oil is at the epicenter. The ETF/ETN industry has a marvelous array of products aimed at John Q. Investor. Money will flow in that direction. ReplyOptions Trader: Monday Outlook [view article]
Your article is spot on. Has Congress EVER done anything timely or effectively? Now that they are 'investigating' speculation in oil as a 'possible' culprit in price hikes (too little too late as usual), it will be a clear road for a long time for speculators to romp with abandon in the oil and commodity pricing game. That's the frightening fact. ReplyOptions Trader: Monday Outlook [view article]
Call me crazy, but I think this is all by design. No, I'm not a conspiracy theorist! I simply don't believe there is too much mystery behind the scenes.1) Steep decline of the US dollar since 2003.
2) Mortgage rates at 1% variable, no money down to buy a half mil house (what did you expect?) Mortgage meltdown!
3) USA losing "market share" in the world
4) China's meteoric rise and influence
5) The EURO slowly taking place of the US dollar
6) US debt: 9 trillion and still counting
7) Lastly, war in Iraq.
So, if you look at this picture, what is the simplest 'solution' to the US problems?
I say, the US tells its creditors: you want US dollars, we'll give you US dollars! Inflation. Another benefit: kill the EURO. Lower the dollar and give free money (2%) to banks and help exports. Didn't the Japanese automakers do that to us in the 70's and 80's with their cheap and then piece of junk cars? The weak yen helped them. Cheap dollar helps the US in the short and medium term. Look at our trade deficit shrinking (discounting oil, minor detail...).
Italy, France, and Spain are struggling with the strong Euro, yet ECB is talking about raising their interest rates. You bet these countries won't be happy about that and it'll hurt their ability to compete in the international markets.
And then oil. What a better way to slown down the economy, make people forget about the war in Iraq, and help JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and the rest of the gang to recoup their money from the mortgage meltdown? What a better way to slow down China, even if momentarily? What a better way to restart drilling offshore?
In the end, look at who benefits the most with all of this. Is it OPEC? Maybe, but I still think they're peons. Could it be more power to Congress? Didn't Rep Watts already propose nationalizing the oil companies? Doesn't the SEC & FED have more controlling power and increased jurisdiction than ever before?
In the end, this is all my guess and it could be all crap. I simply believe there's too much "coincidence"... on all of this. It could be very well our leaders are that stupid and this chaos is random.
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Options Trader: Monday Outlook [view article]
Phil, I love the way you think,but you're wrong on New Orleans...With what they threw at that city,you could have bought a nice new house for every family down there!! ReplyOptions Trader: Monday Outlook [view article]
As long as Obama stays strong, oil prices and other commodities will continue to rise and the economy and stock prices will continue to fall. Look at the correlation!Obama is an economic and security disaster and the large international investors know it. McCain is not that good, he is a Senator so he is not experience in getting anything done but get re-elected, but he is not a disaster like Obama.
For the readers who do not have the experience of the Great Depression, as I do, you may have your chance if Obama becomes our president. He can print money only for so long as Germany realized too late in the twenties.
Politics today is not a spectator sport. I am an old man so this affects me little. But those with young families better get involved or they will suffer the consequences. Reply
Options Trader: Monday Outlook [view article]
Don't forget to mention that Godfather Goldman sold 23% of their XOM last week after pumping! After listing to Jim Rogers last week I think we should put him at the FED. GREAT Article Phil!!! ReplyOil Rises, Dow Falls - Fast Money Recap (6/26/08) [view article]
I know someone's always looking for an article idea, so here's one. Find out what on earth the energy stock WES is all about? All insider buying, no selling, Andarko buying. Analysts now making recommendations of buy, on a stock with no news. No news ever. Mysterious indeed. $17/share. ReplyNew Lows For the Dow [view article]
Excellent listing thoughtfully presented reveals the bones in the entire body index. Who knows if it is bad cold or terminal cancer? Reply