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  • Large Cap Stocks Are Best Inflation Protection by Alan Schram
    Since March 2009, the Federal Reserve bought $1 Trillion of Mortgage Backed Securities and $300 Billion of Treasuries.  It did that by printing cash.  We are the only country that has the privilege of paying our considerable debt by printing our own money.  This is a great... More »
    December 10, 2009 • WMT, SWY
  • CBOE Expands its Options And some Grocery Shopping by Finance Banter
    The VIX is down 8% to 22.50 near; the wild swings in the VIX has caused the 10-day historical volatility of this measure of implied volatility to jump from 85% to 125% in the past three trading sessions.  The put/call ratios remain somewhat elevated with the all exchange reading at 0.95 at... More »
    December 1, 2009 • KR, SWY, SVU
  • "Food Stocks Deserve to be on your Plate" by Mark Krieger
     Since my last update, nearly three months ago, the Basic Food Fund or “BFF” has risen 6.4% from $182.93 to $194.66 versus an 8.4% increase in the Dow. Its poor relative strength could be attributable to its lower beta status (lower beta stocks drop less in down markets but rise... More »
    November 22, 2009 • LUB, TSN, MCD
  • Winn Dixie: " Can't Win for Losing" by Mark Krieger
    Since WINN emerged from chapter 11 nearly three years ago, the company has shown some significant turnaround momentum. They have nearly generated $500 million of EBITDA earnings and remodeled over 170 of its stores. The striking thing about the remodel program is they have been able to... More »
    November 1, 2009 • SWY
  • Open Letter to the American CEO: Five Need-to-Know Facts About Health Care by Sydney Williams
    Dear CEO of Any Company:Want in on a little secret? Here's what health care's brightest business people think about reform: whatever lawmakers accomplish this fall, it won't alter how the system works or move the needle on costs. Now—more than ever—you need to understand health... More »
    October 30, 2009 • UNH, CVS, AET
  • Sizing up Supervalu by Mark Krieger
    The way Wall Street has turned on SVU, you’d think the company had one foot on a banana peel  and  the other  on a “slip and slide”. The Street has literally wrote it  off as damaged goods because of its heavy debt load, as it is evident that most... More »
    October 5, 2009 • KR, SWY
  • Capturing the Employer's Voice: A New Twist in the Health Reform Debate by Sydney Williams
    Every now and then some data point comes along that completely disrupts the flow of a debate. In health care, this occurred in June, when the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) scored the first two health reform bills to emerge from the 111th Congress.Then, the CBO starkly reminded us that large... More »
    September 18, 2009 • UNH, CI, AET
  • Don't Bet Against King Kroger by Wall Street Strategies
    Grocery giant Kroger (KR) recently reported a second quarter earnings report that fell handily below expectations. Sales were half a billion dollars below consensus and earnings fell shy by $0.05 per share, sending shares down more than 8% the same day. For the average investor in the market... More »
    September 17, 2009 • KR, SWY, SVU
  • Putting to Rest the Myths about Consumption by The Inoculated Investor
    It’s Labor Day Weekend. What are you doing sitting at home? Go out and spend! There are endless numbers of sales going on at your favorite retailers. Forget that your credit card is maxed out, you are late on your utility payments and that you are trying to get the bank to reduce the face... More »
    September 6, 2009 • PEZ, PEJ, PII
  • 3 Stocks for Any Portfolio by Ryan Vanzo
    Every private portfolio needs to have at least some exposure to each sector (Agriculture to Telcom) and class of security (Growth to Value). In this article, I highlight 3 stocks that might fill in the missing piece of your portfolio.   Stable Blue-Chip: Proctor and Gamble (PG) Although I... More »
    September 5, 2009 • PG, SWY

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