Willten08

China's Silver and Gold Download

This guy's writing is atrocious. Do some people actually pay for his writings?

Bartz on Bing Search Deal: 'Everyone Wants a Real Alternative'

A dance partnership of two losers: Yahoo squandered early advantages through mismanagement and lack of focus, while Microsoft, a convicted monopolist, despite huge ill-gotten monetary gains, has proven time and again it can not make headway with online or any other business other than its monopolistic OS/Office software. Two losers=one bigger one!

Are GLD and SLV Legitimate Investment Vehicles?

Great article! Thanks! It has definitely made me think thrice before I'd venture an investment in GLD of SLV! Your cited example of Goldman Sachs's shorting of CDO's definitely makes sense that analogous situations exist with the named custodians for these two precious metal ETFs. Now I can understand better why the price of gold trades in such a narrow range, and backs off quickly when it nears $1K/oz. Where are our regulators when we need them?

Contrary to what you read in the media, the Pope didn't pin the economic crisis on unbridled greed. In his new encyclical, Caritas in veritate, the Pope praises economic development, and blames the collapse on "the damaging effects on the real economy of badly managed and largely speculative financial dealing."

So his holiness doesn't think "largely speculative financial dealing." is driven by "unbridled greed"? How quaint!

How U.S. - China Geopolitics Affect World Markets

To Kelm: Very astute, thoughtful comments, thanks!

To many other pundits and posters who have tended to focus on China's problems with a magnifying glass, it is a matter of emphasis and lack of full understanding of the Chinese culture. In spite of the enormous problems - corruption, environmental damage, water shortest, inefficient use of energy, civil unrest, urban-countryside wealth gap, health care, etc., the country is dealing with them all and making progress on every front, albeit too slowly to suit me.

Me thinks many people in this country tend to underestimate China and overestimate the U.S. Recall the Tian An Men incident (massacre as the West prefers to label it) - the West with virtually one voice predicted the collapse of the Chinese economy within one year!

Was our system is so super that it allowed the causes of the current financial meltdown to originate in the U.S. and spread like wildfire globally? Why didn't the government regulators and Wall Street react to so many voices warning of the coming crisis years ago?

Bullish on Microsoft

I don't know who this article's author is, and what experience or knowledge he/she has as a financial analyst or stock picker, but I sure wish him/her the best of luck in the world investing in Microsoft - a "growth", "technology giant" that has seen its share price stagnate for the last 6 years (granted, in the current market meltdown, its shares have not suffered to the same horrible extent as many other well-known brands). I agree totally with other comments that its history is devoid of real innovation, and but for its legally established monopolistic policies which assured the growth of its Windows OS and Office suite into precious cash cows regardless of quality of the products, the MS of today wouldn't exist.

U.S. Dollar: The Trade of the Decade

Pollyanna in drag?

The U.S. Dollar Is Following Argentina's Path

Just finished watching video of Peter Schiff's November 2006 speech at the Mortgage Bankers Association Meeting in Las Vegas. He made these same points very forcefully and clearly, plus a wide-ranging discussion of the state of our economy and where we were headed. The guy is phenomenal - too bad people, especially our leaders and experts, did not heed his warnings.

Four Chinese Solar Stocks Under Threat from Pollution

The "author bio" accompanying this piece is grayed out. His name is no where to be found on the referenced web site (Contrarian Profits). From what hole did he crawl out of?

Avoiding the Internet Death Spiral: More Advice for Yahoo

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