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Investing in Dividend Paying Companies [view article]
Interesting analysis. I would also like to know how you would have faired if you reinvested the dividends. Also if the analysis can distinguish between companies that raise the dividends consistently and the ones that do not. Replyu
5 Key Quotes from Yahoo! on the Internet Industry [view article]
So the user base is growing by double digits, page views are up 20%+, U.S. search queries up 11%+, but revenue is up just 8%? Can someone please explain to me how this company is worth more than $33 a share? ReplyGeek
Microsoft: How About a Leveraged Buyback? [view article]
How about a special dividend again or an increase. Thatwould be a better use of our money. They have wasted
enough with the yahoo mess.
Buy backs only benefit the employees with options Reply
If This Comes True, You'll Be Glad You Own Gold & Silver [view article]
Dixie,We need to chop Leviathan off at the thighs. Dems & Reps alike have proven they collude more often against us for themselves, than for we producers they feed off while themselves only consuming; producing nothing we would buy from it voluntarily. Reply
If This Comes True, You'll Be Glad You Own Gold & Silver [view article]
I was just such a naysayer until I heard Cheney admit he'd kept his CFR directorship a secret as a legislator. Well indoctrinated me voted for W 2x. Well, that and W's lavishing Ted w/a 40% "education" Dept increase, instead of move towards free market education, propelled me into getting my own non-establishment biased education. As a liberal small govt fiscal conservative, I'd long ago decided the Dems were the socialist warmongers history confirms, but was deluded enough to think the Rep rhetoric was genuine. It wasn't. Indeed Lincoln was a commie socialist as hard as THAT is to believe. So the roots of the Republican party are pinker than the Dem progressive slide into it's own pinkdom. I've learned the two parties are controlled from the banking cabal that conspired to take away the people's real commodity market valued money in stages; the Morgan Dems & Rockefeller Reps.But just wrap your mind around this from:
albensonjr.com/noconse...
//So lets take a brief look at the "conservative&quo... roots of the Republican Party. When the Republican Party ran its first presidential candidate, John C. Fremont, back in 1856, Fremont had the backing of several men who were socialist refugees from the failed socialist/communist revolts in Europe in 1848. One of the most well-known of these was Friedrich Hassaurek, an Austrian socialist, who stumped the Midwest in Fremont's behalf. However it did little good at that point, as Fremont was beaten. However, it is worth noting that when the War of Northern Aggression broke out in 1861, General Fremont ended up with a goodly number of these forty-eighter socialists and communists on his military staff while the war was in progress. The Forty-eighter socialists seem to have flocked to Fremont. What did they know about the august general that our "history" books have not bothered to tell us?
Although Fremont was beaten in 1856, the socialists and communists were nothing if not patient. In 1860 they found another candidate worthy of their leftist support--Abraham Lincoln. So in the presidential campaign of 1860 the Forty-eighters all came out for Lincoln. Carl Wittke, author of Refugees of Revolution noted that: "Lincoln was fully aware of the political influence of the Forty-eighters in the campaign of 1860, in persuading many of their countrymen to desert the Democratic allegiance for the Republicans..." It appears that the Forty-eighters had quite a bit of influence in the Republican convention in 1860--even to helping write parts of the party's platform. So much for "conservatism&quo... at the Republican roots!
Establishment historian James McPherson told us in his book Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution that Mr. Lincoln had championed the cause of the socialists and communists in Europe in 1848, so why would he not embrace their unstinting support during his presidential aspirations in 1860? You can accurately label this scenario "the Red roots of the Republican Party."
If socialists and communists supported Fremont in 1856 and Lincoln in 1860 and 1864, we can hardly label the beginnings of the Republican Party as "conservative&quo... now, can we? The roots of the Republican Party were anything but conservative--at best they could be considered deep pink. Our decent, patriotic folks in this country need to become aware of this so they will not be guilty of trying to take us all back to Republican "conservative&quo... roots that do not and never did exist! It is true that the Republican Party did take a more conservative tack in the late 1940s and 50s, and even through the early 60s, but that was out of political necessity and it hardly reflects the real foundation and origins of the GOP.
It is interesting to note that, in 1860, the Democrats were the real conservatives, while the Republicans were the left-leaning radicals. People today should know the difference. The fact that most don't reveals the lack of depth in what most of us received in government schools that passed for education. Sadly, what most of us received was leftist propaganda that was paraded by us under the guise of "history." Sadly, in our day, nothing has changed and our people "still perish from lack of knowledge." //
Some mind blast eh?
Want more reality of the scam our govt is; the elites that bleed us dry who run it from the shadows, pulling the strings of the manipulatable fronts they put in office for the purpose? And the perpetual debt of perpetual wars for supposed peace?
This essay names the names, and connects the dots of the pure evil who have worked so hard in concert to take away the freedoms that some patriots once upon a time gave everything to give us.
Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy, by Murray N. Rothbard
mises.org/resources/12...
There is NO way the people's capital these criminals have squandered on themselves will ever be repaid to those who earned it. Our ONLY choice is to protect what little is left. Turn most of your paper assets into metals.
There is ZERO difference between the Warburg/Rothschild designed 2nd Reich's fiat monetary system, the very blueprint of our own FED, and the inevitable hyperinflation that results when tyrannts rob their people by coin clipping, debasement; or by printing press fiat, once they've fooled the masses into reliquishing their REAL money in exchange for unbacked money debt receipts printed from thin air. Called money because the govt says so. Boy are we stupid.
Ron Paul is dead right. He is also the only Pol I've seen in the 40 years I've paid attention, that truly upholds his solemn oath defending the constitution that no others even come close to.
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5 Key Quotes from Yahoo! on the Internet Industry [view article]
His point was, here are the salient points so you don't have to read the whole transcript or listen to the call. ReplyFinancial Focus - Fast Money Recap (7/22/08) [view article]
Great wrap. Thanks. Reply5 Key Quotes from Yahoo! on the Internet Industry [view article]
And the point is.... ReplyMicrosoft: How About a Leveraged Buyback? [view article]
I would like to see a big increase in the dividend and a buy back. ReplyFinancial Focus - Fast Money Recap (7/22/08) [view article]
I'm not sure you're giving the right data about PFE.Seems like Vytorin's just one glitch in what is overall a solid company.
PFE has a flawless 41-year history of dividend growth and stands to benefit big, along with the entire drug industry as Medicare Part D kicks in over the next few years.
Here's an article by PFE supporter if you're interested in the dividend and management.
www.greenfaucet.com/tr...
Anyone else have any good information about PFE before I jump in? Reply
If This Comes True, You'll Be Glad You Own Gold & Silver [view article]
I'm not a "gold bug," "silver bug" or any other kind of fanatic, but I have built up a small pile all the same. Why? It's not because of all the negative financial intricacies artfully explained in article after article. It's because of facts on the ground. Or to put it more bluntly, the prices paid on the street for the essentials of life. Those I understand all too well. My wife and I are newly retired after more than 40 years each of high stress jobs that left us with small-modest pensions, health insurance and a bit in savings that is melting away, bit by bit. Our last trip to the grocery store rang up over $400. How do working people with children survive? How will their children survive? What will happen to all the retirees and the ever more unemployed, most of whom are not counted anymore. And this is America. This is not the time for more artful discussion. This is the time for answers that matter to people en masse. Hungry people don't give a damn about gold, silver, Swiss francs or anything else indigestable. Reply
Microsoft: How About a Leveraged Buyback? [view article]
Good Ideal. Maybe my 29 jan calls will be in the money by January ReplyFinancial Focus - Fast Money Recap (7/22/08) [view article]
Joan - THANK YOU for summing up the shows -- it is a HUGE time saver and is hugely appreciated by FM fans!!! ReplyFinancial Focus - Fast Money Recap (7/22/08) [view article]
Joan, your note taking skills could use some work. You didn't even include Finerman's final trade idea or Najarian's segment on WalMart. You could get a 12 year old kid to take notes better than you. ReplyIf This Comes True, You'll Be Glad You Own Gold & Silver [view article]
When did you ever see the treasury sec become a media bum? The amount of fear must rise in investors, " when this goldman reject hits the stage". Pall- mall paulson needs to visit some State fairs to spread his "hubris". When you see treasury more than the president something is major broke. Funny, when the S&L debacle hit it was only going to cost 2.5B. The final bill was about 150B. Today its 25B to save the GSE's. However the enterprises have 80B in the "bank" or so Paulson says! The bailouts are going to create new credit to save old debts. How is this a productive use of funds? Too much credit without equal production! The fed will have to start draining at the same time that taxes will have to be raised to finance federal balance sheet. A flat tax will be added as a new way to finance government.( old system will be left in place) The GSE's will beg borrow than be folded up. The investor class is on the treasury's radar screen to be bleed dry.....pity! Reply