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    • It's Too Late for Tax Cuts, Now's the Time To Increase Government Spending [view article]
      We have gone through a long period of less regulation and more tax cuts and larger debts and now we are faced with the results. Phil Gramaph has had his way along with Wendy and Enron. It is too late to sell and nothing to buy. Oct 10 08:42 AM
    • Why I Sold Lowe's Short [view article]
      The Lowes here is still doing a really good business. But our banks are also still loaning money, financing various activities, and growing deposits. They are not involved in swaps, and CDO's, but banking. Houses are still being sold and bought. However, noone is going to a SPA in California. Oct 09 07:05 PM
    • Mark-to-Market vs. Mark-to-History [view article]
      At one time, one could not remove certain assets from ones balance sheet at all, ie. "free will" and carried real estate on the balance sheet at the purchase price (no mark to market there). However, the mark to market rule on long term assets makes not sense. Discount the cash flow and one can fine a more "rational" value to an asset. We used the dividend discount model for years to evaluate the value of stocks. In addition, the naked shorts and the discarding of the up-tick rule is just greed by the uncontrolled markets. This whole thing simply smells of greed and disregarding of the real investors. Oct 05 07:39 PM
    • Dividend Aristocrats Survived September [view article]
      I own a good number of stocks in the list and have held my own quite well during September. However, the economy must be allowed to grow. Oct 03 02:36 PM
    • Wachovia Deal: A Home Run for Citi [view article]
      Usually I prefer to own stock in companies that have been bought but I have own C for many years and have a certainty that it will survive this disaster. I also own WFC, JPM, and BAC and they will survive, I believe. Some have recently increased in share price. Oct 01 05:03 PM
    • Citi Gets a Good Deal; Ken Lewis Overpaid [view article]
      I don't think the writers even understand basic finance. We are in a really deep financial stress which without government help will not get better. Get ready to watch the blood in the streets.... Sep 29 05:01 PM
    • Halliburton at a Discount - Despite Continuously Meeting Expectations [view article]
      I bought HAL at a much lower price and continue to hold it. It is contracting as the does the market. We will be drilling for many years and HAL will be a very busy company. Sep 07 08:58 AM
    • How Are 2007's Top Five Dow Stocks Performing This Year? [view article]
      As I monthly seek to find assets that have value, I have lost money on almost every purchase made this year. Although the multiples are small, the dividends are pretty healthy, the stocks continue to seek a new evaluation, even lower. Unfortunately, we probably will have this for four more years...(remember "four more years!") Sep 07 08:55 AM
    • Friday's Employment Report: A Sobering Dose of Reality [view article]
      Fairy tales were formerly used to teach children. However, today we have been subjected to fairy tales on a daily basis. The crooks have charge of the institutions and will remain in power since they exercise power. Sep 07 08:51 AM
    • Friday's Employment Report: A Sobering Dose of Reality [view article]
      Fairy tales used to be written to inform children. Now we are experiencing fairy tales on a daily basis. The crooks runs the institution and we will keep them in there because they have power. Sep 07 08:50 AM
    • Wells Fargo: The Good, the (Not Too) Bad and the Ugly [view article]
      I have owned Wells Fargo for many years and have realized a long term unrealized net gain plus the dividends. It apparently is a well managed bank with less than average risks at this time. I have added at one time or another and would be willing to add at a lower price. Aug 26 08:28 AM
    • A Dividend-Focused Equity Portfolio Maintains Real Purchasing Power [view article]
      This research was done twenty years ago and the results were the same. Holding dividend paying stocks were compounded at a much higher rate than "growth" portfolios. Bond investors have lost value over the past fifty, one hundred or more years. Inflation will eat up a bond portfolio, regardless who is doing the "managing." Aug 11 11:36 AM
    • Rally Strategy - Cramer's Mad Money (8/5/08) [view article]
      I agree one should keep cash in order to buy good companies at a better price; however, guessing what the markets will do by selling winners and retaining losers is not a good plan for investing for the long term. What Jim Cramer wants us to do is to become traders, not investors. Aug 06 10:09 AM
    • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
      The market is going down but I don't know when and how much. One can buy pretty good 'blue chip" stocks with PE's below the historical market average. However, most will hold on to cash to see what the market will look like in the next years. Aug 01 08:14 AM
    • Has the Dollar Bottomed? [view article]
      As one who has travelled to Europe many times the past ten years, I can tell you that the middle class in Europe is strong and growing while we have lost much of the middle class. We look more like a third world country each year (big military and large and growing lower classes). The dollar has lost at least 50 per cent of its value during the past ten years and the bottom is not in sight. Jul 28 09:13 AM
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