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Let Warren Buffett Handle Your Portfolio

With so many other insurance firms in trouble, don't you guys think insurance premiums are going to firm up a little bit, especially those super-cat reinsurance stuffs?

High Yielding Stocks Going Ex-Dividend in January

You call 1% dividend "high yield stocks"? Gasp!

And where are Altria, Coca Cola, ConocoPhilips, Pepsi, Philip Morris International, and all the best dividend stocks?

S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats: Withstanding the Test of Time

What a funny comment! When inflation finally strikes, your bank CD will soon become worthless.

Anyone who bought a bank CD in continental Europe in 1914 were completely wiped out by 1945.

Buyers of decent equities, however, completely recovered by 1955 and went on to new glories.

Hedge Fund Tracking: Clarium Capital

How is Clarium's YTD performance?

Warren Buffett Accumulates NRG Energy, Ingersoll-Rand and Union Pacific

The author got the facts so wrong in this article that it should be deleted as not to mislead more people.

Buying a Buffett Portfolio

Where are BNI, PKX, SNY, and Tesco PLC missing from your list? They are all major Buffett positions.

Credit Cards: The Next Subprime?

I exclusively use credit cards for my purchases, and I always pay my balances in full.

Credit cards offer a convenient way to organize my bills, track my spendings, and a great protection from fraudulent merchants.

If you shop online, credit cards is pretty much the ONLY way to buy anything. If you travel to foreign countries, Visa and Mastercard offer way BETTER exchange rates than those rip-off banks.

It's actually far safer to make purchases with credit cards than with cash. They have become very good at detecting anomalies. Once I bought something in China, and I got a call from them a day later. Now if you give cash to the wrong person, it's gone forever.

Credit Bust: Avoid Being the Little Guy

The longer the US keeps its reserves untapped, the longer it remains truly energy independence.

Once all of our reserves are fired, then we become truly dependent upon others.

Right now, we are exchanging worthless green paper for truly useful commodities. That's a wonderful deal.

These Stocks Are Attractive Amidst This Selloff

Posco is a Korean integrated steel maker. If you get this simple basic fact wrong, that basically tells people what kind of "investment capitalist" you are.