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  • Bypass the Depression and Head Straight for 1907 [View article]
    Why not give a link to the NPR story at
    www.npr.org/templates/...
    Nov 14 11:52 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • AAII Bearish Reading Above 50% [View article]
    I always wonder how valid the AAII poll is. It's a self-selecting poll. Only those so motivated to go to the web page respond. It's not like they go out and poll a random sample of individual investors.
    Jun 17 19:29 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Hardball in Vallejo, California [View article]
    Hear, hear! What a novel concept, people paying for the government projects and wars that they demand! You mean our grandkids shouldn't have to pay for our rebate checks and gas tax roll-back?

    Since that doesn't seem likely, I'm advising my kids to aspire to a career in public safety:
    * highly respected and therefore "untouchable" profession
    * government is a stable industry without cutbacks
    * well above-market wages
    * very generous benefits
    * early retirement
    * extremely generous pension and retiree health benefits. There is nothing close in the private sector.

    Heck, I'm thinking of a career change myself!
    May 09 09:23 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • 6 Reasons U.S. Stocks Will Outperform Foreign Stocks in 2008 [View article]
    You make reasonable points. Nice to read a contrarian vs. the pervasive doom and gloom!
    Feb 12 20:51 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Global Selloff May Not Doom U.S. Today [View article]
    How do you get screenshots of TV? Do you have a setup to watch TV on your PC?
    Jan 22 21:32 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • There’s Only One Right Way to Build a Portfolio [View article]
    How do you get a greater portfolio return than the weighted average return of the asset classes? Are you assuming periodic rebalancing across classes?
    Jan 16 20:29 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • ARM Resets to Hit the Fan in 2008 - WSJ [View article]
    A definition for Ms. Bair:

    Moral hazard is the prospect that a party insulated from risk may behave differently, for example, that an insured party's behaviour will be more risky than it would without the insurance. Moral hazard arises because an individual or institution does not bear the full consequences of its actions, and therefore has a tendency to act less carefully than it otherwise would, leaving another party to bear some responsibility for the consequences of those actions.

    -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    Nov 26 16:00 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • The Advantages of Asset Allocation [View article]
    OK, I'll bite. :-) I'm not familiar with Managed Futures. What are some good web sites to learn about them?
    Nov 26 15:53 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
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