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18 Companies Worth Following if Listing Requirements Change

Rules are rules. Why have the $1 rule if you are just going to change it? Mr. Market prices fairly all stocks. If a stock goes below $1, it is probably not investment worthy anyway, and the shares should be taken off the market. The $1 rule is to protect investors from worthless companies masquerading as investment grade national companies. If a company insists on being on the exchange normally reserved for more successful companies, all a company has to do is a reverse split, done deal.

Ashford Hospitality Will Benefit from Strong U.S. Tourist Industry

Mr. Market has taken a 90% bite out of this one already, so Mr. Market has spoken. From today's action, the bearish Mr. Market my be sharpening his teeth for yet another big bite out of AHT's backside. Despite prudent corporate governance in these trying times, the economy beyond the walls of AHT's boardroom continues its gradual shutdown. National hotel REITS are not the place to be when all the money disappears into the AIG and C holes. A return to hunter/gatherer 17th century style economy is in the offing. How many hotel REITS were in business when Jamestown was settled? So be it. It may be good for the American spirit to get back to nature again. Your best bet now is to buy some farmable land, stock up on supplies, food, guns, seed, etc. Learn how to raise chickens, dress hogs and grow crops. Take all your money out of the banks, mutuals, stocks, etc. Buy gold coins and keep all your cash and gold in a safe at home. Don't tell anyone you have it. When the bottom falls out this summer, and all the banks close up for good, all the money that's left in the world will be what is in your pocket. Use this to get your "livin' off the land" lifestyle kickstarted. Your mini economy will then continue only with industriousness. You can sell milk, eggs, chickens, and crops to have some income to pay the electric bill for your water well pump. A simpler and happier life will emerge.