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    • ON: Tue Oct 7th 13:39 PM
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      Cash Position Best for Apple Investor
      I second mollytjm.
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    • ON: Tue Oct 7th 13:31 PM
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      Did iPhone Sales Pass 10M Already?
      The markets perception of value relative to a stocks price is not the same thing as the underlying worth of any particular company. When these two are out of sync there is opportunity in both directions. Since AAPL does not chose to share their cash hoard with shareholders there is no disincentive to trading. Why are so many arguing with the market. If you are holding or buying for the long term quit complaining, or add to your positions when you think the crowd has it wrong. If you are trading and can profit from it, good luck. Right now cash is more desirable than stocks so the prices are falling. Good for us. It takes less cash to buy the same good companies.
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    • ON: Fri Oct 3rd 11:50 AM
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      The Biden-Palin Panderfest
      John McCain got his money's worth last night with Sarah Palin's performance. She memorized her lines, delivered them with conviction, and offered the girlie winks and smiles people have come to appreciate. But to paraphrase Gertrude Stein, "there was no there there." Will the real Sarah Palin please stand up. Like Al Gore in 2000, she is afraid to be herself and this ultimately is a losing strategy.

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    • ON: Fri Oct 3rd 10:41 AM
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      7 Rules For Investing During the Fourth Quarter
      As for your jail suggestion why not start at the top?
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    • ON: Wed Oct 1st 14:57 PM
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      Starbucks Gets Re-Caffeinated - Barron's
      @Bullish Banker, fyi coffee at Starbucks is $1.35+/- not $5.00. Will SBUX rise again? Who knows but McDonalds is not their competition.
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    • ON: Wed Oct 1st 13:44 PM
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      The Topsoil Crisis: Dirt Isn't Cheap Anymore
      @Dan S1, welcome to the planet Earth. Other peoples problems are your problem, like it or not. We are interconnected and you can't just enjoy the benefits of other peoples success without sharing in the obligations toward the less fortunate. Someone once said "For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more."

      I agree that population expansion must be curtailed for the long term survival of our planet. In the mean time, free universal education has proven to limit population growth not encourage it. "Socialist" Europe has a declining native population.
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    • ON: Wed Oct 1st 13:27 PM
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      The Topsoil Crisis: Dirt Isn't Cheap Anymore
      Topsoil may have been more important to American economic expansion than oil.

      American corn-centric farming has been mining topsoil for generations and in the process has been flushing this precious resource down the Mississippi to everyone's detriment. What hasn't been flushed has been rendered into a largely dead substance useful only for holding agricultural chemicals.

      We need to preserve and build our topsoil and ensure that it is alive and healthy again. The growing organic movement promotes this trend. Our very lives depend on it.
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    • ON: Wed Sep 24th 13:38 PM
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      Offshore Drillers that May Profit from End of Ban
      paulk8756,
      If you are speaking for the next generation you might want to consider a longer time frame. I think we've had our wake up call and now need to get on with the business of non-carbon based sustainable alternative energy. The oil must be our bridge to a sustainable future otherwise we will not have the capital to make the change. Time and oil is wasting and history books are full of failed civilizations who could not adapt.

      China, by the way, is a good example of what you get when environmental considerations are neglected. They exchanged their clean rivers and air for a cash horde that should have been spent on pollution control. These days it is unhealthy even to eat the fish from their waters. Of course the same can be said of shell fish in San Francisco Bay.
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    • ON: Sun Sep 21st 20:27 PM
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      Eagerly Awaiting Monday's Market Decision
      Hey Georealist you made some good points. I like the comments about managing our lives with less. Sometimes "less is more." I'm not suggesting that poverty is ever good, but simplicity and understanding value are virtues.

      Am I the only guy out here that thinks Hank Paulson has turned the US Treasury into his own hedge fund? He is now obviously in the market for toxic debt and I hope he knows what he is doing. What was his record like at GS?




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    • ON: Mon Sep 15th 11:24 AM
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      Apple: Leading the Way to a Total Tech Breakdown
      Someone else said it here, that the stock price and the company are not the same thing. Zack offers an interesting assessment of the stock price short term. But the Apple Stores are the only stores I've seen lately with throngs of people in them and are places of real excitement. This says something good about their long term prospects. If you are a long term owner of AAPL take your short term lumps and wait for another entry point to add to your position. If AAPL would part with some decent dividends, they have the cash, it would make the wait a little sweeter.
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    • ON: Sat Sep 13th 12:10 PM
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      Apple Investors: Fasten Your Seatbelts, Put On Helmets
      AAPL is one of those stocks like V where owners can not accept any commentary that does not confirm their dreamy idea that it will only go up in value. It is an object lesson to investors not to "fall in love". Check the charts guys, no stock is an unending stairway to the stars. Investing is not a faith based activity. And Seeking Alpha is not so influential that someone with a contrary point of view will move the market. Sure you are angry and disappointed that "your precious" is losing value. Don't take it out on the folks describing the story.
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    • ON: Fri Sep 12th 16:35 PM
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      Mexico: Running Out of Oil and Options
      The best strategy for US interests is to increase real investment in Mexico. Most Mexicans would rather stay home if the jobs were available. Mexico is seriously underemployed so they will go where the jobs are, that's the way markets work. I recently vacationed in Mexico and encountered a growing number of Mexicans who spoke English and learned it in the United States. They returned home and brought skills learned here with them. I also met many US citizens who are retiring in Mexico for obvious reasons. This cross cultural movement is good for both countries.

      Some of that $40B in drug money is spent here in the US on guns which are used against the Mexican police. We could help the situation by following the money to the gun dealers. I'm with Stephanie and think that decriminalization of drug use will deprive the bad guys of funding. But not in this administration even though legalization is pure Reaganomics.

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    • ON: Fri Sep 12th 15:25 PM
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      OPEC: The Saudis Have Left the Building
      The Saudi's lost control of the price of oil some time ago ($45)and are just now reasserting themselves. It remains to be seen if they can. Their intentions are the same now as they have always been; to keep the price of oil high enough to make money,stable enough to maintain the current world order, and low enough to discourage alternative energy.
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    • ON: Tue Sep 9th 12:44 PM
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      Rough Seas Ahead?
      Very interesting!
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    • ON: Tue Sep 9th 12:22 PM
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      Euroseas: A High Dividend Dry Shipper
      The hard thing to remember when the stocks are tanking is that the fundamentals of these stocks are good and the dramatic volatility results from the traders who currently move the marker with their fun and games. My strategy is to enjoy the dividends and wait for opportunities to add to my positions. I just wish I were better at taking some money of the table at the tops.
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