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    • Wed May 21st 10:53 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      PowerShares' Latest Concept: ETFs of ETFs
      Basically just another way to get a bump on their expense rake.
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    • Thu May 15th 22:39 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      A Look at Q1 Hedge Fund Holdings
      Are these based on share counts or values? Because if they are based on values, it would help to know that since tech went down MORE than 2% more than Energy did, then the actual share counts went up in tech versus energy. If, instead, it is based on sharecounts, then that is what we need to know.
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    • Wed May 14th 22:08 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      What's Next for Apple: 3D Gaming?
      Bahaman, you needed to have bought Apple Jan 09 120 Calls back when I did.
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    • Wed May 14th 22:05 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      IMF: Speculation Playing 'Significant Role' in Oil Price Surge
      Yeah, because we all know about that peak GOLD theory corollary.
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    • Wed May 14th 21:53 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Disclosures: The Long / Short Dual Standard
      One of the main differences is that being long is LONG because you are in it for the long term...being short is SHORT term meaning you are in it to make a quick buck. You aren't investing you are wagering, in essence. I'd like to know which camp the guy giving me advice is in.
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    • Wed May 14th 21:46 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      1990 All Over Again?
      Ex15, Noah was ONE guy amongst all the others...you doom and gloomers are a dime a dozen. Don't try to make yourself into some type of saint or martyr or Nostradomus. YOU are the crowd. I remember some guy posting on here back in August how he had taken all his money out of the market. S&P was at 1400...guess what? S&P is at 1400 now...and it will probably be higher before that guy realizes he missed the bottom and found out you cannot time the market.
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    • Fri May 9th 20:59 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Commodities: Bubble or Not?
      bubble
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    • Fri May 9th 10:19 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Currency, Precious Metal and Futures ETFs: Don't Get Caught in the Tax Trap
      Very enlightening. Thanks.
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    • Wed May 7th 15:23 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      The WSJ Is Wrong on the Housing Crisis
      You need some more old people in your family.

      At 87, my grandfather is still living in his house with his wife. Yes, she has had 3 heart attacks and he has had colon cancer, but they are on their own, at home.

      If you think 70 is "time to retire to a nursing home" you are seriously out of touch.
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    • Wed May 7th 10:26 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Will Fannie Mae Survive?
      This seems to be a no brainer. $2.4 Trillion in mortgages? 2% of that is
      $48 Billion. I can't see how they don't lose that much which is more than their equity base.
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    • Tue May 6th 12:46 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Expecting Weakness in Nvidia on Cautious Goldman Note
      They "await" a better entry? They had one last week. Maybe they should've been paying attention.

      puhleaze.
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    • Sat May 3rd 20:48 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Impending Mortgage Crisis: Part Two
      Use interest rates to calculate the payment on said houses. Normalize that to 1972. Very simple. Average annual home mortgage rates are readily available. You want unaffordable? Try the 16+% mortgage rates in the early 80's...that's why those years are above 2.0. See how big a deal that is compare to the paltry 30% difference between 3.5 and 4.5 on his chart? Even though ratio of price to income is higher in 2005, the ratio of PAYMENT to income would be lower...much lower in fact.
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    • Fri May 2nd 11:39 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Gas Tax Holiday Is Populist, But Pointless
      Jackooo, I'm not contradicting myself. Gas needs to cost enough that people have no choice but to cut back. And fuel standards are stupidly low. Basically, they need to outlaw SUV's and non-commercial truck purchases.

      Too many idiots are driving around in V-10 duallies taking their kids to soccer practice.
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    • Fri May 2nd 10:55 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Impending Mortgage Crisis: Part Two
      I live in Tulsa, Oklahoma (actually a suburb of it, but close enough). Home prices here have not declined.

      You can buy a NEW 3,000 sq. ft. house for less than $250,000. Given interest rates at 5.5 to 6%, that makes it pretty affordable.

      But, in general I'm using the data provided by the author. Using his data, 2008 should be able a 1.35 on my normalized scale. That is about the same as most of the last 20 years, and much better than the late 80's and early 90's (not to mention orders of magnitude better than the early 80's).

      I'm not a big believer in price to rent for several reasons, first of which is home sales are skewed to new homes and home rents are skewed to older homes thats like saying a 1970's VW bug is equivalent to a new Prius.
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    • Fri May 2nd 10:46 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      A Few Crumbs of Good Housing News - Housing Tracker
      Dude, no one reads comments like that.
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