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30 Emerging Market ETFs - Risk vs. Reward

Superb article, and as long as you are doing all calculations consistently, it gives us some safeguards.
Of course Free Cash Flow can be calculated differently and it would be helpful to know the formula that you used.
Would be pleased to see more of same from you in the future. Thanks again for your fine work.

Wrong Great Depression Lessons Will Haunt Equities in 2009

Was not much of this

" TOO BIG TO FAIL , TOO INCOMPETENT TO COMPETE"

brought on by the actual status quo/modus operandi, but called the "New Paradigm" junket launched by our Corporate PR and skilled propagandists in the late 80's and early 90's??
We have a nation preoccupied to enter the engine boiler room to fiddle with the machinery in order to squeeze out a few more RPM's and HP from the engine, when what we need "first" are better Chartists, Navigators, and Skippers to keep us off the rocks, the sand bars, and the ice bergs, and on an intelligent course with high payback while the engine improvements are taking place.
Additionally, more raw HP and speed are of little or no use if we speeding faster in the wrong direction, we just get further from our desired destinations at a faster rate.
Unless we can somehow improve our economic and political systems across the board, little hope of significant improvements can be expected. This remains to be seen.

The Perfect Storm: Semi-Annual Economic Review

To xsuddensam : Excellent and keen observation. However, as the author makes clear, the ultimate resumption of the decline of US dollar WILL make foreigners, at least, want to invest here because everything we own will be on fire sale (again), which he suggests is the lesser of evils (I'm not so sure). Agree with author that real assets and selected global investments critical in alleviating personal damage resulting from the dollars probable further decline, the rate of which is unclear due to interest rate changes and uncertainties, money supply, velocity, oil prices , all the trade ratios,etc. A good , interesting, and useful article.