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Cramer's Stop Trading! How Can You Not Want to Be in Freeport? (4/23/09)

Cramer has been wrong FAR more times than he has been right. That is fact. The guy also belongs locked up in jail for his past. I can only imagine the countless millions he has cost stock holders by telling them the wrong thing to do, and his illegally manipulating the stock market when he was a hedge fund manager.

How the Gold Game Could End

The whole idea of investing in Gold always has made no sense to me. Yet it gets pumped all the time by the media. I'd like to see you go buy something with your hunk of metal... slap it down on the counter and ask for change. Its only worth what someone is willing to pay for it... kinda like selling an old car.

As far as you know, it could be one big scam. How is it they have a limitless inventory of it? It can't be worth that much if there is so much of it.

Cramer's Mad Money - Is the Game Over? (4/6/09)

Cramer is a complete idiot. This is the same guy who cost many people their entire stock last year because he told them to do something. The same guy who in the past, who had admittedly manipulated the market for his own personal gain. And CNBC who continues to manipulate the market for stocks their own hosts own.

There was absolutely ZERO reason for Cramer to declare a sell on the stocks he listed. ZERO. The 1st quarter results haven't even come in yet. And of course Cramer loves Goldman Sachs.... a company that currently is being heavily flamed on the message boards for what they have done taking taxpayer money.

3 Ideas for International Dividend Income Investing

"I now question the wisdom of ETFs and CEFs inclusion in an income portfolio"
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I don't know why you would say that. ETF's are FAR safer to invest in than any single individual stock. They also are safer than any single stock for paying dividends. Sounds like someone has been listening too much to Cramer.

U.S. Bancorp Is Taking Fed's Advice to Lend Aggressively

Its funny this article claims U.S. Bancorp was so aggressive with lending, yet every other place claims the opposite. Even the graph posted here shows they have very little for total volume compared to the other banks.

Plus even the former head of U.S. Bancorp said this:
"Banks get themselves in trouble not because they don't grow fast enough, but because they grow too fast and don't understand the businesses they are in. … I think you control risk by getting into businesses that you understand, not following the crowd. Bankers tend to follow each other," he said.

"We decided that the subprime business was something we didn't want to engage in in a big way. … We did some subprime lending, but not to the extent anyone else or many others did," Mr. Grundhofer said. "It's another good example of having the discipline to look at your businesses, seeing if they give you the kinds of returns you like — and you like that risk profile. … We were very disciplined. Whether it was in acquisitions, whether it was in business lines, we were a very disciplined group of men and women, and that's a legacy that I'm proud of, and it's still being executed at U.S. Bank today."


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