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Caterpillar: Bringing Home the Gold

CAT doesn't have a decent balance sheet. As of the end of 08 they had debt of 77.2% of assets. And their debt is climbing, check quarterly balance sheets before you buy.

Great company, but with problems-see above. Jim Owens is a good manager, but he cannot work miracles.

There are companies with no debt, huge cash positions and better growth prospects out there. Not hard to find them!

Waiting for the Inverse Treasury ETF's Glorious Day

Andrew-Terrific Advice-TBT is the way to go-have already made 13% in 10 weeks.

Canadian Clean Energy Trusts: Best High Yield U.S. Dollar Hedge?

These suggestions are terrific, but it is hard to get good information on them.

Stewart vs. Cramer: A Cheap Shot

Cramer has made huge contributions to investor awareness through his show and his books. He surely has faults, but he has helped many investors. As the author said Cramer was way ahead of almost everybody else in calling our economic mess and what would happen if the Fed and government did not heed his advice. Cramer has consistantly offered measures for regulators to take to improve the investing world for the average person, and he has put to shame many executives who have underperformed.

As to John Stewart, I have no idea where he gets off taking on Cramer-and for that matter, it was silly of Cramer to participate in Stewart's sideshow. Stewart has been "The Entertainment Guy" for years and has done an admirable job-if you are into the shallow celebrities of today. Am curious as to what Stewart's credentials are on financial matters and why he would be involved in such things.

It is fine to pan Cramer, but in doing so, you must tell the story of the good things Cramer has done for investors. It seams most reports I see on Cramer are unbalanced against him. Media people have an obligation to report all sides of a person's doings-comments and opinions are done separately. I ought to know-I spent over 30 years working on newspapers.

My U.S. Infrastructure and Employment Plan

Your plan is great as far as it goes!

To really get economy going and insure future growth and worldwide competitiveness we must ad a legitimate energy policy and education-we need engineers, computer experts, people in math and physics related areas to compete in today's job market-this also includes re-education of people in workforce.

Cost of all this: Many added trillions to our national debt to do these things right-terrible inflation-lower living standard. But this is an investment in our future and will pay huge dividends-otherwise we become a third rate banana republic.

Share Buybacks Make Apple Sweeter

I'm sick of hearing about buybacks for AAPL or for that matter any other company. I buy stock to make money and to make money you must invest your cash at some point. Also, we have any number of corporations sitting on cash and people out of work-why not put this money to use creating jobs, creating profits and stock appreciation for investors.

Steve Jobs and company are one of the greatest teams of recent decades-look at their results. I also own the stock because of that cash-I have faith that they will use it well.