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    • eBay Still Hazy [view article]
      as an ebay buyer of many years and many dollars, I can attest that the site has been rapidly deteriorating...fewer antique items of quality, better sites are around for used stuff, and Amazon and other Google search suppliers far better for new items (and used), without the quality questions and uncertainty of what you may end up with ebay purchases....I still use it as a useful source but perhaps only 10% of former purchase volume.......(hope ebay has a strong enough porn backbone for survival??) Jul 18 10:58 AM
    • Beware of Sending Fannie and Freddie Stock to Zero [view article]


      delta 7777

      link does not post--for thoughtful article, Google:

      market ticker denninger fannie freddie       Jul 13 12:53 PM
    • Beware of Sending Fannie and Freddie Stock to Zero [view article]
      see:

      market-ticker.denninge...       Jul 13 12:47 PM
    • Beware of Sending Fannie and Freddie Stock to Zero [view article]
      Freddie&Fannie into receivership????????
      can you spell...b.a.n.a.n.a......
      Hugo Chavez would get a real kick out of this one----
      nationalize the losers, not the winners???
      (we don't really grow enough bananas)       Jul 13 12:21 PM
    • Are American Companies Now Up For Grabs? [view article]
      Back in the Vietnamese war era, Ho Chih Minh regarded opium and cocaine as wonderful weapons.....you coud sell them to enemy troops and actually get a country to pay you for this weapon that would efficiently and insidiously destroy the enemy.........

      Somewhat in the same vein....there is very good reason for middle eastern oil countries to not foment war against the US--having learned from the Chinese that it is far simpler to take your time and simply buy it up with its own money at a liesurely pace (and receive thanks for doing so)....       Jul 13 12:09 PM
    • Greenspan, Please, Retire Already! [view article]
      Is Greenspan the one responsible for regulatory changes that allowed investment banks to enter and play essentially criminal games with the mortgage market by devising CDOs, SIVs, and other shady financial strategies that were not available to depository banks???......or has he now become the red herring whipping boy "chosen one" ??????.....I think it appropriate to look a bit deeper and properly ascertain those entities working assiduously at shifting blame before jumping on to this bandwagon....there are ongoing machinations and criminal coverups afoot here that will make Enron look like amateur hour.
      Jun 29 01:44 PM
    • Elan, Wyeth Take an Inside-Out Approach to Alzheimer's Vaccine [view article]
      jarcom--you say "An alzheimer vacine....simply panovian. AHP used to be smarter than to go for such stuff."-----are you perhaps suggesting that AHP was "smarter" in its fen/phen days???? Jun 15 11:54 PM
    • Elan, Wyeth Take an Inside-Out Approach to Alzheimer's Vaccine [view article]
      again, Here Derek seems to share a common confusion with respect to Elan's Alzheimer's pipeline....Right now their prime focus is on an antibody (not a vaccine) therapy identified as AAB-001 (Bapineuzimab), which anticipates important PII result announcement very soon, and full PII info at ICAD on July 30..PIII for AAB-001 has already started... Although AAB-001 is an immunologic approach, it is distinctly different and not to be confused with ACC-001 which is an antigen, or vaccine.. Elan has several other extremely promising Alzheimer's drugs in its pipeline, as well as the highly effective multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri....Elan is primarily a research biotech, and commonly partners with companies better equipped for large scale manufacturing. (which arrangementsd also, because of careful poison pill agreements, protect against easy hostile take-over)....There is a very active InvestorVillage message board with quite a few brilliant and very knowledgeable posters on Elan (significant posts can be roughly presorted based based on number of recs, then following the thread): www.investorvillage.co... Jun 15 02:01 PM
    • Microsoft's Ballmer Kills Print [view article]
      Ballmer's vision of the printed word only reflects the mindset of someone deluded enough to want to buy Yahoo.....(Yahoo is a backwards-thinking corporate mess only concerned with bonuses and corporat peck order squabbling, as anyone knowing anyone who has worked there is totally aware)...
      sure there will be a fallout in the printed world.....and I suspect there will be a lot more pictures and fewer words as digital cameras make pictures cheaper and decline in education and demand for anything more than sound bite makes serious journalism scarcer....even now, photography has been (with few exceptions)turning into the sorting of stochastic images as opposed to the clarity and thoughtful selectivity demanded by the slower and far more expensive constraints imposed by the halide image as practiced by Eisenstadt, Cartier-Bresson, David Douglas Duncan, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and their generation and forbears..although the net is a truly wonderful development in the advancement of communication and information distribution, it has not really found a replacement for the photojournalism lost with LIFE magazine, and is not inherently capable of doing so...fundamentally the intrinsic characteristics of what might be termed spirit and soul of the net is not of the same cloth as of the printed word.....
      It is a tragic loss to print that newspapers no longer can (or have not yet learned to) generate the resources absolutely necessary to support the extensive research staff needed to produce thought provoking reflective journalism..at some point, hopefully as soon as possible, there be a backlash to mass shallowness, (don't hold your breath quite yet) and there will be a stable niche for thoughtful printed word....
      The same phemomenon as newspapers are experiencing has already happened in the world of science--two generations ago primary scientific literature consisted of books by a single author (possibly with one or two close collaborators) who really understood, and could explain with absolute command and clarity, the overall broad aspects of his field .....the scientific "book" has now devolved almost exclusively into sound bite compilations of proliferating publish-or-perish symposia...meaningfuln... has largely fallen prey to "news"..it is bit hard to envision a Newton writing "Principia", or Laplace writing "la Mecanique Celeste" in this day and age......
      Jun 07 01:30 PM
    • The Amazin' Ragin' Housing Contagion [view article]
      <<<<<&l... remarriage or just stay married-there must have been something you liked about them,>>>>&...

      there is a great Johnnie Taylor song
      with a much sounder explanation
      based on sound economic theory

      ----"It's cheaper to keep her"-----
      Jun 07 12:28 PM
    • eBay's Looming Identity Crisis [view article]
      ebay scams have taken over, which can get very costly--lack of bidder identification and feedback changes have reduced buyer confidence....in general it is no longer worth the cost and hassle for either buyer or seller.... Jun 04 03:24 PM
    • Order Backlogs Are Overrated on Wall Street [view article]
      the only way for any airline to remain competitive is to replace their heavy fuel inefficient planes with lighter ones using titanium and carbon fiber...... a twenty percent fuel efficiency gain is a compelling reason for new orders, so I would not worry too much about cancellations of manufacturing backlog..... Jun 02 10:46 AM
    • Housing Affordability Index: Surprise, It's a Buyer's Market [view article]
      the real question is not whether it is a buyer's or a seller's market, but whether it is advisable at all to buy at this time, or to wait things out a bit. The switch point from buyer to seller mart will depend on a decision to buy becoming obvious based on the balance between a deteriorating housing price and an increasing interest rate. Realistically, home pricing will have to come more rationally in line with rental costs, adjusted of course for factors such as deductibility, etc. It is really quite irrational to pay a lot of money to purchase an ongoing negative cash flow, regardless of how strong one's ego is. May 30 12:14 PM
    • Different Views on Housing Supply [view article]
      there is another large group of "sellers??" who bought a home for hundreds of thousands of dollars more than current valuation and deliberately choose to walk away rather than be stuck with a vastly overpriced negative cash flow, regardless whether they are actually able to pay the mortgage or not, and regardless of the effect on their credit rating. This group also includes speculators who purchased multiple properties to flip. It doesn't require a lot of financial smarts to know that it is best to walk away from this type of loss--if you still have cash, you can be sure that you can buy again at a lower price. It would be of interest to know how large a percentage this walk-away sector is. May 30 10:51 AM
    • Microsoft/Yahoo Drama and Investing in Google [view article]
      Yahoo again exhibits the same mentality
      ...as when they refused to consider the ideas of Brin&Co
      ...as when they revised their finance message board format
      ...Again shows that involvement in a mismanaged company is a guaranteed loser...       May 04 01:51 PM
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