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Annaly Capital Management: Is Excellent Performance a Thing of the Past?

Good points on both sides, but let's not lose the big picture. Here's a financial stock actually making money, and dealing in government guaranteed paper to do it. Maybe their spreads are narrower this quarter, but they are not bankrupt, taken over, being bailed out or flitting around in the company jets...what's not to love?

Deflation: It's Starting to Get Silly

Your crude male bias is showing ---you wouldn't comment on Bernake's eyes, would you?
So drop the "doe eyed" slurs and stick to business....

2 Dividend Paying Energy Efficiency Picks

I've held some WFIFF.PK for a couple years and think they have a fine business model, even if gaining wider geographic coverage has been slow. Certainly, lower heating oil and gas prices are a negative relative to the cost of installing a geothermal system, but that should only be a one or two quarter issue, as fuel prices are bound to rebound....

Is This the Beginning of the End for the Market?

Whoa! Your swipe at retail investors -- we won'have kneejerk selling and mutual fund redemptions by scared retail investors -- no longer has, if it ever did, any validity. It is now the go-go, mo-mo herd mentality professional traders with their hair trigger program selling and three minute long term horizons which cause market gyrations and these death spirals. Some of these guys have the risk tolerence of gazelles, and dump and run at the same speed.
Mom and Pop ain't responsible for 4 BILLION share volume on big down days!