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  • The Mac vs. PC Debate Was Never Clearer [View article]
    By suggesting that MS's recent ads are pointless, the author shows a misunderstanding of the computer-buying public: the vast majority of them know NOTHING about computers, including any difference at all between a Mac and a PC. To these people (80+% of computer buyers) "Macs cost more for the same thing" is a powerful message -- that's why these ads have shown success.
    Jul 24 12:53 pm |Rating: +3 -2 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    > Can you believe how bad Chinese-made
    > stuff is?.....pure junk.

    And yet Americans -- including yourself, no doubt -- line up to buy it.
    Jun 17 13:16 pm |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment
  • Remind Me Again, What's a Bubble? [View article]
    Bubbles are the financial manifestation of groupthink. Right now, the groupthink is "Oh NOES THE SKY IS FALLING!!!1!" So banks aren't lending, consumers aren't buying, businesses are laying people off, etc. The ridiculous bear bubble will pop just like all others do, and the market will begin making sense again, and those of us who've invested against the bubble -- buying stock in strong companies for next to nothing -- will make out like bandits. Some of us have already seen amazing gains over the past 6 months.
    May 29 13:23 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    So people were crying because the TARP $$ was "never going to be paid back," and now people are crying because it's being paid back too early and without sufficient interest??!

    Does the whining never end?
    May 22 13:11 pm |Rating: +2 -2 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    On May 19 09:42 AM sidestick wrote:
    > The article mentioned the increased cost of a car as $1300 by 2016.
    > Will the savings in gas offset that $1300?

    Surely your computer has a calculator built in.
    May 19 14:02 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    Cetin,
    You accidentally made a comment that wasn't your typical inane spam -- congratulations. It's nice to send you kudos for a change, instead of hitting the "report" button.


    On May 13 01:55 PM Cetin Hakimoglu wrote:

    > Retail sales are not such a big deal. Even during the 2002-2007 bull
    > market retail sales were occasionally negative. Don't celebrate yet,
    > bears. We may have a 3% rally later this week.
    May 13 14:13 pm |Rating: +2 -1 |Link to Comment
  • Why Stimulus Funds Need to Be Spent Everywhere [View article]
    It doesn't help that those states and localities most in need of stimulus are the same areas where the politicians are most vocally (and hypocritically) "opposed" to government spending. Alaska, Mississippi, etc., are the biggest drains on the rest of the country, yet their politicians pretend they don't need Federal funds: www.taxfoundation.org/....
    May 12 13:09 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    I would go further and say that those who have stayed out of this market have already missed some of the biggest and easiest gains they're likely to see for a very long time. 3 of my stocks (C, STP, BYD) have nearly tripled since I picked them up in January. I expected to wait at least a year to see doubling!

    Volitility has made for easy pickings -- I'll be sad when the economy finally straightens out.


    On May 07 10:47 AM jr007 wrote:

    > Like it ..or not, things are getting better in the market. Those
    > in denial..will be left stewing in their own lost opportunities.
    > The Republican shorters will get their "Just Dues". Sorry.
    May 07 13:13 pm |Rating: +1 -1 |Link to Comment
  • GE's Immelt Thinks for Himself: U.S. Not Shifting to a Service Economy [View article]
    Fixing U.S. education will fix all our problems:

    1) Americans will have the math and science background to continue leading innovation.
    2) Americans will be educated enough to not vote for the morons who wind up in Washington year after year.
    3) Americans will commit few violent crimes.
    4) America will produce visionary leaders rather than followers.
    Mar 13 13:51 pm |Rating: 0 -2 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    > If like Obama wants to do he raises their taxes, what do you think
    > the rich will do?

    Bombs, bullets and bailouts aren't cheap. If you're only going to parrot talking points and not offer solutions, zip it.

    >Raising taxes on corporations and upper income people will reduce the total >revenue the government actually receives and will reduce jobs. This has >ALWAYS proven to be true historically.

    Actually, it hasn't. Reagan's initial tax increase did the opposite and helped stabilize a crap economy.
    Mar 04 13:16 pm |Rating: +2 -3 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    Has any president in your lifetime ever acted differently? Is so, you're much, much older than I.

    Politicians are identical: People very good at fundraising and very little else.

    On Feb 11 09:07 AM ChipSeal wrote:

    > "Obama officials called the minimal details intentional"
    >
    > This is because they are in campaign mode. Be vague, make general
    > statements about your goals but don't commit to specifics. This way,
    > each member of your audience will impute his own favored solution
    > into your remarks and support the idea! Once it is being implemented,
    > it will be too late.
    Feb 11 14:06 pm |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    Wow. Just wow.

    On Feb 06 12:48 PM Bob Davidson wrote:

    > Mr Obama says if we don't do as he says we will lose another five
    > million jobs, and Nancy Pelosi says we will lose more that that.
    > How can that be if there are onlly a little over three million people
    > living in the US?????
    Feb 06 14:25 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    User 224899: The Repubs had 6 years to pass some tort reform, but as they did with every other real-life conservative issue, they ignored it.

    And with Dems on the trial lawyers' payroll, the chance for action in that area is long gone.
    Feb 04 13:32 pm |Rating: +1 -1 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    Another sky-is-falling post from know nothing, and juvenile name-calling from notsosmart. *yawn*

    It must be Tuesday.
    Feb 03 13:16 pm |Rating: +1 -1 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]

    On Feb 02 12:12 PM charles hopfl wrote:

    > Everyone wants a tax change for 2009. It would only be fair and
    > prudent to allow (at least) individual stockholders to take their
    > losses on security sales as ordinary losses instead of capital losses.

    Why should investors (including myself) get a break? We gambled, we lost. Time to pay the piper. This is what being an adult is all about.

    > The majority need some help desperately.

    Yes, but the majority are not investors, except in retirement vehicles with no tax losses to worry about.
    Feb 02 13:55 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
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