Mr Gadget

The New Reality for Higher Education

The community college here in Las Vegas has upgraded itself to a full college. That just ups the "prestige" not to mention salarys. The function of a community college should be to provide specialized training needed by local industry. It should also project coming needs like "solar technicians and installers" and set up programs to provide additional knowledge for people to survive in the workplace. It has to be flexible and aware of what's going on. It should also provide the math, science and english remediation needed for students to enter 4-year colleges and suceed. It's a terrible waste to have college professors spending their time doing this.

MLPs for Tax Deferred Acounts

How does Linn Energy (LINE) fit in here? They pay in shares (to the best of my info).

California and Florida Housing Outlook: More Hope for Recovery in 2010

There's no way I can forsee a recovery until the banks put up ALL the forclosed homes on the market. Here in Vegas there is still a heavy precentage of "unreported" units.

ETFs: Why I Sold Taiwan

Thanks for the help.
Ron

ETFs: Why I Sold Taiwan

I'm still a novice when it comes to ETF. This is the 1st article that I read that mentioned an "indicated value" .
Where is that found? And does it cover all ETF's?
Thanks

Canadian Clean Energy Trusts: Best High Yield U.S. Dollar Hedge?

There are a few "income participation" units out there that are acombination of a share of stock coupled with a bond. Is this one of them?
Thanks for the informative serries.

Five Top Solar Power Stocks

aquaculture: Yes solar is a growth industry. But this article is full of misrepresentation, halftruths, contradictions and mistakes.

OK, so how about a reasoned responce that points these "problems' out for my edification. Not just throwing rocks.

An Open Letter to John Galt

A really great analysis!

Claw Back Bonuses, But Change Incentive Structure Too

Thanks for the thoughts. Over the years I've written to Utility board members to stop basing CEO raises on: "the average of 3/5 other utility CEOs"...to no avail. And to heads of stock funds to not give raises unless the factor for performance is based on at least 6 quarters of increases in bottom lines. But most still use 1/4....shame on the board members who only line their own pockets.
Throw out all board members will sit on more than one board, or are in the same industry, in fact I believe they all should be voted out unless they are more responsive to stockholders needs. Like setting 2 year growth minimums as a start.

Profiting from the Pickens Plan: FAN, Clean Fuels, Fuel Systems

Westport Innovations in Canada (TSX-WPT) is a manufacturer of natural gas conversion systems that rework the Cumings diesel to burn natural gas. This is what is working for the Port of LA. It reduces the particulates and NG is more economical to run then diesel by almost 30%. A big saving in fuel costs.