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    • ON: Thu Oct 9th 12:17 PM
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      Earnings Preview: General Electric
      GE is poised to follow GM into obscurity. Old school companies just won't make it in the new economy. GE stock price is now lower than it was 10 years ago, and GM is where it was 50 years ago! Seemingly can't get much worse, but just wait a while.
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    • ON: Fri Oct 3rd 12:05 PM
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      The Real Reasons Fertilizer Stocks Are In the Dirt
      Me too, me too, and in conclusion, me too.
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    • ON: Wed Oct 1st 11:27 AM
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      Buffett's Battery Buy
      Electricity storage batteries were invented in 1800 and little real progress has been made in improving them to where they can hold large quantities of immediately available power. Physics prevents it, and that cannot be changed. Batteries for cars are a boondoggle on the scale of corn ethanol, as neither will do much(and even that only for a few years) to solve the vehicular needs of the average driver. Pure electric cars with competition from fuel cell cars will keep power research at a high level so the end result will be a dramatic improvement in air quality along with an end to our reliance on fossil fuels. And, quieter roads for everyone is another undiscussed plus that I will truly love to hear happen.
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    • ON: Wed Oct 1st 11:12 AM
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      Hedge Funds: The Next Shoe to Drop
      Historians will be writing about this infamous time in our country for centuries. The worst president, the worst congress, the worst Treasury and Fed heads, the most crooks on Wall Street due to gov't bank deregulation, and the biggest consequences for Main Street since 1929.

      The incredible thing in all of this is that the above mentioned people are very rich and will not be impacted at all by their own despicable actions that has pushed America to the brink. And, we let them do it.

      America, what a country. And justice for all.
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    • ON: Mon Sep 29th 13:18 PM
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      Patience Pays, Cash Is Still King
      However, the first days of a rally are the best, so it is wise to not wait for total assurance before entering the market as you will lose the best part of the rally doing that. You must take risk for reward, and some of that risk is entering the cave when some witches and goblins are still haunting the entrance.
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    • ON: Mon Sep 29th 13:13 PM
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      Bailout Is Just the Beginning
      Each broken thing in the global economy must be addressed in turn. Sure, lots of it is broken, but the bailout will be THE huge start toward mending Wall Street and Main Street, and then many other areas needing work will fall into the appropriate line. But, we must start now with this as we are in business limbo with nothing getting done, and limbo has a vey misleading definiton as it is actually much worse than its definition....it is a black hole where everything in it loses its (m)ass.
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    • ON: Fri Sep 26th 15:39 PM
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      A Better Bailout
      The problem with the above: State's rights will find a way to trump fed regs through some loophole or grandfathered statute and then we shall have each state ruling how it solves all these crises. No improvement at all from the present morass. Trying to put all the above stated improvements under one fed reg is like putting all the eggs in the country under one hen. That false sense of security breaks down as the other hens constantly work to find ways to steal whatever falls out or is not watched well. And, politicians are even worse than hens, we all know so very well.
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    • ON: Fri Sep 26th 15:20 PM
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      Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News
      1929, 1987, 2000, 2008.......Has anyone noticed that the big national breakdowns are occurring at an ever increasing rate and are closer and closer together each time? And, that's not even including the real estate bubble popping in 2006. What's next ...one of these events every year, month, day? How many can America take?

      Heaven help us all.
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    • ON: Thu Sep 18th 12:13 PM
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      Marc Andreessen on Financial Crises, No IPOs, and Obama
      Very important mistake made in proof reading in your article. You wrote "can" when you meant to write "can't", and that made all the difference in confidence. Anything after that mistake is suspect.

      McCain might not know a thing about economics as did his predecessor so good luck there America, but he will be a great success in the warmongering arena. However, can America stand another one there? I do not think so.
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    • ON: Mon Aug 11th 12:56 PM
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      Please, Mr. Greenspan, Shut Up
      Anyone with at least half a brain listening to Greenspan for the very first time many years ago should have been warned that he is out of touch with anything realistic or of this earthly world. How do totally detached men like him ever get power? But, then I think of dummy Gerald Ford, space cadet Jimmy Carter, and "feel my oil" Dubya and wonder the very same thing. We Americans are the problem.
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    • ON: Fri Aug 8th 12:00 PM
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      Is Microsoft Out of Ideas?
      depressedallday said it pretty good, but he did not mention an idea that Warren Buffett does so well and so profitably that would be great advice for his buddy Gates........these days, don't expect one type of company in one industry to do it all, so why not finance a number of innovative, well run and profitable companies with all that extra MSFT money, instead of buying businesses in the same tech arena as MSFT? And don't put them under the MSFT name. No matter that they are not IT, as Gates is into medical innovations now anyway so no new "gates" would be crashed by getting into other industries with great potential in established, new or even developing markets. Find innovative companies with great management, and get the rest of how to do it from Buffett, as he knows it pretty well. I even think he would not charge Bill for it.
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    • ON: Mon Aug 4th 11:05 AM
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      Lithium-Ion Batteries and Centerfolds: The Final Chapter
      The electricity storage battery was invented in 1800, yes, right at the start of the industrial revolution, but has achieved the lowest increase in technological improvement of any energy-related R&D. For example, to date, the size of storage batteries required for even the small needs of a tiny car requires a much larger space for the batteries than does the gas engine the batteries replaced, not even counting the space required for the electric motor needed. That will never work if we cannot store massively more power in a much smaller space, which to date has been relatively unsolved. Imagine how large any type of "modern" battery would have to be to hold the electricity to power an entire city! Probably nearly the size of the city itself. It is my strong belief that the entire concept of massive electricity storage in batteries as we know them now will prove to be physically and financially unsolvable, thus other ways to perform the function must get the lion's share of this area's R&D in the future.

      Yes, I do not believe that storage battery tech will ever be any significant portion of the world electricity storage solution, as all modern evidence appears to favor self contained energy production devices, e.g., fuel cells, of various forms and sizes to replace the heretofore 208-year unsolvable conundrum of storing massive amounts of electricity in a battery. It will then be a produce-it-as-you-need... solution instead of a use-it-as-you-need-it one that we are now wasting our time researching. That new research is where I would now put my investment dollar, and am doing so.
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    • ON: Fri Aug 1st 14:44 PM
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      How Is GM Still Alive?
      The Big 3 Detroit automakers are on their way out. It's just a matter of time. Michigan and the feds are artificially propping them up as their failure would devastate the Detriot area. So, they will fade away gradually but, make no mistake, permanently.

      Interestingly, the primary reason for their fatal problem is, ironically, mostly the same thing that made them giants in the first place, but they do not, will not, and and seemingly cannot see the forest for the trees. Times change? Not to Detroit.

      When America was fast building up after WWII, and Detriot cars were the only cars we could buy, "3 years and trade it in" was something that worked great for them, as cars from Detroit were even worse quality then than they are today and wore out quickly. But, when we became able to buy much better cars from abroad that would last 10 years or more instead of 3, Detroit started the decline that will continue until its demise, as it won't build competitive cars with those from Japan and elsewhere because it cannot due to its hidebound '50's marketing mentality along with the burden of the almost militantly resistant, semiskilled workers it must employ under very onerous union work clauses, and the bloated expense of almost gov't level employee retirement benefits.

      Honda, e.g., builds great cars and takes sales from Detroit every year, as that is how car companies grow now...by taking sales from other makes by being better and more efficient, but Detroit can't and won't ever do that as its top executives are still stuck in the '50's with that same old school marketing mentality and warlike unions, making inferior quality vehicles that cannot compete in today's world marketplace. The end is near.
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    • ON: Wed Jul 30th 14:21 PM
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      Why the 2008 Housing Relief Bill is No Relief
      The realtors and lenders lobbies have millions of $ at work with/on your gov't.

      Aren't we American taspayers just so lucky we have both?
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    • ON: Tue Jul 1st 12:12 PM
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      Top Country PEG Ratios: Russia, Singapore, Malaysia
      Lots of variables to consider other than just PEG but it is a place to start research. To that end, I'm looking for a service that tracks the PEG of all stocks on the NYSE and NASDAQ on a daily basis. Anyone know if there is such a service? Thanks.
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