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Gmailers More Engaged than Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail Users

Odd comments, especially "not a . . ., " gmail and yahoo! both do a good job of controlling spam as long as you are not מופקר with your email address.

4 Dividend Stocks to Hedge Against Social Security Failure

“The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”
- Margaret Thatcher

"The problem with capitalism is that eventually the plutocracy and their oligarch managers run out of other people's money and have to bankrupt the commonwealth."

Pushing Back Against Oligopoly Rule: This Time It's Telecom

Oops! I don't even know anyone who has an iPhone but I gather they signed a deal with ATT that has iPhoners very displeased with their telecom experience. I know two people with macBooks (sp?) and both have made mutiple trips to the Genius Bar only to ultimately have their macBooks swapped. Both are very happy and tell me the Apple Store is a slice of paradise on this good earth.

Percentage of Stocks Above 50-Day Moving Average

Three steps to healthy market returns despite headline financial reporting and finger pointing: Trade, trade, trade.

The Great Awakening: Boomers, Your Crisis Has Arrived (Part 3 of 3)

Santayana the poet!? Is this why he is remembered as an aphoristic philosopher, and not as a poet?:

from the poem, Premonition by G. Santayana

"Till haply, lightning through the storm of ages,
Our sullen secret flash from sky to sky,
Glowing in some diviner poet's pages
And swelling into rapture from this sigh."

The Madoff Magnum Opus

The Madoff global tour resembles Pauson's global trot as Treasury Secretary. Can someone explain the differences between the Paulson Ponzi and the Madoff Ponzi in terms other than politics and scale?

What's Exactly Is Happening Inside Those Retirement Plans?

re RCA
"Are we destined to continue to self-destruct into a corrupt third-world state inspired by socialism for the wealthy? I think we can do better than that! Much, much better."

When have we not been a nation based on "socialism for the wealthy." We have always been an oligarchic/plutocratic governed society; just more semantic window dressing because "socialism" is so plebian.

My What-If-Obama-Wins Portfolio

They will vote for Obama given the alternative. If the electorate had any sense, they would vote for Ralph Nader, put the Paulsonistas in the slammer along with Bush/Cheney, and throw the keys away.


On Nov 03 10:12 AM prairiedog555 wrote:

> Raise tax's during a recession/depression, erect trade barriers and
> allow millions of unskilled workers to burden welfare system. <br/>Ideology
> aside, how could anyone who studied great depression even consider
> a vote for Mr. Obama?

Not Running Out to Buy Shares in Pfizer

re captainccs:

Am I left to wonder if you put your entire stake on Pfizer eight years ago? Did you not catch the bottom of >$15? Do you regard >7% dividend apparitional? Maybe you caught Goldman Sachs above $200, or $175, or $125? Are you a buy and hold kind of mark or a trader?


On Nov 03 05:52 PM captainccs wrote:

> >>> Pfizer bashing continues unabashed!
>
> With the price dropping for eight year, did you expect cheering?

Not Running Out to Buy Shares in Pfizer

Pfizer bashing continues unabashed!

Clueless - Cramer's Mad Money (10/8/08)

It is amazing the way people blame Cramer for his mistakes. He always tells his viewers to do their homework. I watch because I find his analyses of individual stocks informative, NOT definitive. While his shtick is laid on too thick for my taste, his literary, historic, and philosophic allusions amuse as well as inform.

Who’s Really Getting Bailed Out Here

Dusty, too early for smoking the pipe - both carrier and bailout valuations are impossible gauge accurately. Additionally it is a cracked analogy; cracked big enough for the investment banker in chief, Paulson, to drive a brinks through.

Proposed Solution to Decline in American Wealth: Free Trade

Wow! I want some of iThinkBig's koolaid. And Duuude!, Obama is a sensible alternative to four years of McGrahamonomics, unless you'll enjoy paying taxes on your health benefits and letting the Eronistas set energy policy, while Wall Street grifters take over Social Security.

Political Party Power and Its Affect on U.S. Market Return

All that hot air must be bad for global warming; if it were harnassed as energy, the US would become a net energy exporter.

How We Got Into This Pension Mess

crowdofcheerlead makes a good point. The irony is that by the time society gets around to euthanizing its elders, CofCheerlead will be getting close to the front of the line.