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While Citigroup Jumps on John Paulson's Investment, AIG Jumps on Anything

Da comrade roger-pass the vodka

Flowers Foods: Ready to Bloom

Great company, good management-my wife buys the bread all the time. That they've raised the dividend 7 years in a row-not too much of that going on these days-is a testament to conservative, shareholder oriented management. I know the analyst who follows it, and she was ranked #1 among food analysts by Forbes last year

New Equal Weight ETF Gives Exposure While Managing Risk

I would guess that the fees are higer than normal due to the need for constant rebalancing-small price to pay if youlike the strategy. I also think fees will come down as the ETF gains popularity.

Corruption in the Executive Branch?

Fannie and Freddie have recently paid out over 200 million in retention bonuses to top execs, but it's had barely made a dent in mainstream media coverage. I would love to see Frank Raines come back before a Senate investigation-now THERE'S a crook.

Will Larry Summers Be the Next Gordon Brown?

You would think that Summers et. al. would be better students of economic and financial history-they are apparently not. The current path of the "genius" brain trust that is in charge, is one that will change the face and structure of this country. In the immortal words of Butch and Sundance, "Who ARE those guys?"

Earnings Preview: BB&T

Helplessobserver, you are an astue observer of financial reality. BBT is a truly great bank-Kelly King, and John Allison before him have been astute shepherds of shareholder interests. BBT bought the company I work for 10 yrs ago and it's been a very good experience

Fox News Launches a Huffpo for the Right

It appears that Mr. Bercovici might benefit from Reading Bernie Goldberg's new book, "A Slobbering Love Affair", but he probably doesn't have time for that since he's too busy watching Keith Olberman re-runs. I will say that while I'm a huge O'Reilly fan (along with apparently millions of other Americans) I do flip over to MSNBC a couple of evenings a week, to watch Chris Matthews is saying. I have been pleasantly surpirsed to see that he has become much more balanced now that the election is over. Also ineteresting that Mr. Olberman seems to mention "Bill O" about every 5 minutes-gee Keith, are the ratings maybe getting under your very thin skin?

Harry Dent, 'Sage of Doom & Gloom', Files to Run Active ETF

Ahrry Dent managing money AGAIN??!! Give me a %#$#&#*( break

Rick Santelli: The Best Five Minutes in CNBC History

wpdragon, when you are finally done w/ shouting "nanny nanny (state) boo boo" at the rest of us, please consider that while the right certainly did "lose" the election (wanna make some bets on the 2010 midterm elections my friend?), the entire country is now losing so many things-life liberty and the pursuit of happiness among them. Do you believe in personal responsibility and accountability? Are you receiving any bailout money? Please tell us about the status of your mortgage-my guess is that you're waiting in line for a refund. what's most interesting about this is that the current administration talks a good game about believing in the strength and courage of the American people but Obamanites won't actually trust the pople with their own money. Instead of putting together all these Govt. stimu-less programs, why not rebate, say , the last 3 years of federal income taxes paid to each household with the stipulation that you have use 50% of it to pay down debt (unless you don't have any). Gee, do you think that might directly help main street's balance Sheet? do you think it might put more $ into the banks so that they might feel better about lending to consumers who have just improved their credit scores? do you think that maybe, those who don't have much debt would spend some of that money on cars, vacations, home remodeling, etc.? The first three words in the Constitution are "We the people".


On Feb 20 11:12 AM wpdragon wrote:

> Hey duff, when you sober up, just remember one thing:
>
> YOU LOST!
>
> So get over it and take it like a man instead of a whiner, and maybe
> try to contribute something rather than tearing down things like
> an angry little child.

Rick Santelli's Rant: A Response

I agree completely w/ NITRAM and tdillian. A large % of the problem loans were mandated by the Govt. through Community Reinvestment act of 1974. The rest were taken on by real estate speculators, who are now going the way of most speculators-dwonhill. Whatever happened to personal responsibility and liability? My wife and I started to look at buying rental properties in 2002 since interest rates were so low, but when we did the math and found out that due to inflated real estate prices, there was no margin of error for us if renters skipped or stopped payments, we decided it wasn't worth the risk. It's not that we saw the current debacle coming-we weren't that smart-it was simply a process of risk/reward asessment. Luckily, we made the right decision at the time. So why should we be paying for the folks who made investment mistakes? So here's what should come next-"Dear President Obama, I bought 1000 shares of BAC @ 50 so now I've lost $47,000 sue to imprudent specualtion-I would like to have the govt. cover my losses to a much greater extent than the $3000 capital loss I can apply against ordinary income on my tax return-GIVE ME A BREAK! Actions have consequences.

What Does the Bubble in U.S. Treasuries Mean for the Economy?

Chicken Little was right-the sky IS falling

In Defense of Leveraged ETFs

I trade 2X ETF's ALL the time. If I want to make a bet that the market is going to move in a particular direction, and I'm right, then I MAKE MONEY-tracking error irrelevant. Isn't it better to make money rather than not doing something simply because there is some tracking error? The bid/ask spread on ETF's is MUCH smaller than most options, esp. when you look at the spread as a % of total price of the underlying instrument. BUT, if I were using ETF's to hedge, rather than to trade, I think the tracking error issue is much more relevant.

The Hidden Cost in Inverse ETFs

given the volume in these ETF's, i don't think anyone holds them long enough to really worry about it. While your concerns are valid, and good to know, for longer term holders, I suspect the're irrelevant for the vast majority of holders. I trade SDS and SSO frequently and my average holding period is 4-5 days. thanks for the insights though!

If Obama Doesn't Balance Trade, China Will Steal More U.S. Industries

Gore Vidal laid all this out ~ 25 years ago in one of his books (sorry, I don't remember which one! he pointed out that the center of civilization ~ 5000 yrs. ago was in China. this center moved progressively Westwards over millenia, from China, to India, to Persia, to Greece and Rome, to western Europe and finally to the US. I don't recall if GV explained why this happened but my hypothesis is that humans follow the sun. He commented that the real power that the US needs to fear is not the Russians, but is the Chinese. makes sense to me

Equities: S&P 600 via 1100

Mr. Maher appears to be an Elliott Wave devotee, as am I-I agree 100% with his conclusions. The current rally should take us to ~ 10,500 on the Dow and then watch out!