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Not Everyone Likes Windows 7

I am waiting to run Google

Google Wave’s Little Secret: It Already Works on the iPhone

nifty that the dutch language shows up in the first sample pic! I will start investigating this today and so happen to have many conversations going with Dutch people.....as irrelevant as that is to this post.
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10 Leading Global Utility Stocks

Enel SpA (E) seems to have a yield of 5.98%/$1.42 per share vs the stated 14.26% ???? Maybe this table as compiled just before the latest declaration?

Steer Clear of Sears - Barron's

My perception of Sears has always been, especially in the Craftsman brand. And availability of anyone tool item would justify a longer drive. Guess what happened in the Aventura Mall in Miami: driving over 100 miles to visit [among other stores as well] the Sears store to buy a 1/4" drive 3/8" deep socket? Out of stock!! Whereas every other size was overstocked and the department manager finally cannibalized a complete socket set to accommodate my need.
I would also carry on about the absolute lack of enthusiasm of the scarce employees, too busy with lunch....paperwork..., if I thought it would make a difference. Instead I concluded to write this merchant off as a failure, having reached it's zenith in the 1960s and not seeing how the world changes with time. Another GM syndrome?
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Trading Google Options on Goldman's Upgrade

I too am so enamored by all things Google>>Chrome, gadgets on the desktop, gmail and search generally. Even have begun using search as a spelling tool: when not sure of the spelling of a word, I begin typing it and as I progress the full word forms in the dropdown and reveals itself. I am awaiting the day Chrome OS will become available and hope to see it and Android influence Apple's OS, Safari and all things Apple to forge [forge?] compatibility between these two superior technologies/products. I love my iTouch!!
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Wikinvest Hopes Redesign Will Attract the Yahoo Finance Crowd

tried to get those little charts [google-ad revenue growth trend] up but found no ?intuitive? ability....how to get going with this resource?

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

Why do we always have to show our ignorance of all things European and all things involving language other than English? Opel, named after an old aristocratic name, is not involved (sic!) with the semi-precious stone opal....

Gold and Swine Flu Economics

The REAL concern is not how many cases we see right now, rather that no natural or acquired immunity against this strain exists and therefore creates the potential for lightning fast spread into massive numbers of individuals.
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R. Michael Jones: Shallow Ounces of Platinum Draw Deep Pockets

What about recent scientific breakthroughs in the use of gold as catalysts, with greater efficiencies and lower costs?

Bullish for the Short Term But Consider Gold, Platinum as Well

"Typically, platinum sells at a substantial premium to gold, but because of the collapse of the auto industry platinum is approaching parity with gold".......
What no one seems to be alerted to is that some months ago breakthroughs in scientific manipulation of the gold atom has demonstrated it's utility as a catalyst, usable in applications now reserved for platinum exclusively.
As scientific breakthroughs typically take some time to be scaled up to industrial processes, the large effect this will have on the relationship between platinum and gold is not yet visible but is surely coming. Correspond with me @ [e-mail] if you care to.

Jack Lifton: The Technology Metals Age

Like to hear more on the shift from platinum to gold in catalytic reactors, based on recent advances in basic science. No one seems to be talking about that. Email me with comments:bertvanwijck@...

Could It Be a Happy New Year for Chrysler?

Would it not be a good idea for Detroit to recognize that the greater failure lies in their basic methodology of selling products: Creating a product that, inappropriately, represents an image of sex appeal, that, inappropriately exudes hallmarks of power>>excessive size, power, consumption<< and alludes to the uniqueness of the individual to whom it is marketed, the one who forges a lone path through empty deserts to a mountain top, singularly conquering the world!
And once having created this 'inappropriate' product, using the worlds most advanced marketing technology to brainwash the populus into having these inappropriate desires!
If the vision would be "the community" and the recognition to be the needs of this community, maybe the products created would become more appropriate.
Detroit is stuck with an infantile vision of automobiles, what those automobiles should be all about. Detroit, I hope for them, will survive only if they mature and begin to use responsibility to the COMMUNITY as their basic premise and discard the only responsibility embedded in their modus operandus: responsibility to the STOCKHOLDERS. If they manage to make such a transformation not only will they survive, they will thrive!

Is It Time to Buy Gold?

"Gold has utility as jewelry, tooth fillings, electrodes, and a few other places; and this gives it a natural price floor and ceiling"

Recent reports of scientist having found utility for gold as a highly efficient catalyst>published in the journal Nature<point to the use of gold as a commodity and replacing platinum almost entirely. Would like to see price tracking of these two metals to verify this possibility.


On Dec 05 11:28 AM AlexR wrote:

> Gold has utility as jewelry, tooth fillings, electrodes, and a few
> other places; and this gives it a natural price floor and ceiling:
> at some price point it's a bargain, but if it moves too high there
> is just a lot of other stuff the average person would rather buy
> with that money. This little bit of utility combined with non-perishable
> composition and ease of transportation justifies a certain secondary
> utility: as a means to store value in the very long-term at very
> low cost (inflation protection, no fees and no taxes, wow!). But
> to extrapolate that into some sort of miracle investment that can
> only go up (especially in a recession) is really stretching the facts
> too far.

Is It Time to Buy Gold?

"Gold has utility as jewelry, tooth fillings, electrodes, and a few other places; and this gives it a natural price floor and ceiling:"

I find there to be way too little consideration of the foregoing. A recent breakthrough>report... in the journal Nature<points to an upcoming utilization of gold, replacing not only platinum as the catalyst of choice but opening the potential for a fast array of applications, making the metal much more of a "utilization commodity" then heretofore possible.

On Dec 05 11:28 AM AlexR wrote:

> Gold has utility as jewelry, tooth fillings, electrodes, and a few
> other places; and this gives it a natural price floor and ceiling:
> at some price point it's a bargain, but if it moves too high there
> is just a lot of other stuff the average person would rather buy
> with that money. This little bit of utility combined with non-perishable
> composition and ease of transportation justifies a certain secondary
> utility: as a means to store value in the very long-term at very
> low cost (inflation protection, no fees and no taxes, wow!). But
> to extrapolate that into some sort of miracle investment that can
> only go up (especially in a recession) is really stretching the facts
> too far.