U.S. GDP Data: Private Sector Grows 2.8% In Q1 2012, Government Continues To Shrink [View article]
First, as I said above, your chart is wrong. Second, our government is so inept that giving them money is a bigger waste than handing it to crack heads. Whether it is worse since 2008 is a tough choice.
It is a fact that the rich got richer, as a proportion of total wealth, since 2000 or so. It is also a fact that the bottom people largely pay no federal income taxes and have numerous inefficient programs.
Your comment about education is a joke. Everyone gonna be Chem engineers or doctors, eh or how about looking for a government job? The young got advice about that.
The unemployment is a micro problem and we have sent all the jobs for normal workers overseas. What do you think happened? Can you say "Dependent Class?"
It is a micro problem. Long unemployment pay and the other macro solutions do not work. The stimulus got a few roads fixed. Some junk electric car loan guarantees paid off donors. And our grandkids are gonna get that bill with the cost of the goofy wars.
Anyway, just tossing money at problems invites corruption and for the flow to end up in the same pockets. And a silly $6 Billion tax on the rich will not work either. Showmanship.
I have worked with the rehab programs for the stupid and the scum. I was one.
I offered $1 million on a bet I could cut unemployment. I was ignored.
Buy This Oil Stock Now While The Price Is Low [View article]
CHK has issues to resolve. More importantly, XOM magement looks at acquisitions like you look at a portfolio. Would you want MORE Nat'l Gas if you were them?
And about their looking at small exploration oil companies? There are about 20,000 alternatives if they wanted to mess with them.
Having been an insider with a mega corp, I can tell you that they look for plays so large or complex only they can do them. Like the whole arctic north of Siberia.
It takes something special to move their needle. Mad Money just featured a small firm which is doing well picking trough their "left behind" wells. The expression is "too small to move their needle".
It is a predictable and slow needle but the firm has credit two levels better than the US gov't!
Exxon Mobil's Risky Gas Endeavors Could Sink Stock [View article]
Wow. Mr. Ry thinks just like a young lady I know who has a degree in math from some expensive private school and a master's in some nonsense like "Administration" from someplace else and who was earning minimum wage before mom and dad (who are both MD's) pulled her into a government job with the feds. She was #1 in her high school class.
She thinks First Solar is wonderful and hates oil and finance.
I have options or ownership of a lot of XOM. I wrote that $84 to $86 was too low a few weeks back. I also bet on $90 plus with any kind of a brake after earnings tomorrow. I may go down in flames.
The oil biz can go south if Iran decides to make nice till after November. They would be crazy not to do that....but they do have a track record.
But to suggest that these guys are bad because of volatility is really fair but obvious. We are talking about a commodity.
There are not any really safe stable stocks now. Have you looked at AAPL?
Is Exxon Mobil About To Waste $600 Million On Algae Research? [View article]
Excellent comment, Mr. Quon and I have seen exactly what you wrote as an inventor in that tech that works mechanically and economically still has hurdles before we have an Apple or Microsoft start running on its own power (excuse the pun).
The energy industry attracts charlatans and wingnuts because of the emotional toll taken by swinging prices.
There is likely no home run coming very soon and it is foolish for policymakers to gamble on a dream but biotech is demonstrating that it has a role and we shall see how it develops.
Can Intel Become A Player In The Smartphone And Tablet Markets? [View article]
Mike, who is clueless? I don't know Intel well but it looks like a decent operation and Mr. Breyer makes sense to me.
I am chasing XOM now but the same guy who got me to ride B of A to the hilltop is calling for Intel as a "start in 6" to and run to 18 month play. I think AAPL is still the fair haired boy until then. Whatever that is.
BP May Be The Hottest Stock For 2012, With 44% Upside [View article]
Good work! However compared to the other issues in the energy sector, isn't current COGS and etc. looking at flyspecks at a roulette table? And BP has some other management and strategic positioning problems which makes it inferior to the other majors. And I did say problems.
BTW, XOM is about to increase its dividend by up to 33%. This was in a range cited by the WSJ online today.
This is to be determined in the next two weeks so you don't need a big time discount on the news.
I have to find that guy who was saying to short everyone in the big oil biz. You have towatch what you predict here. was calling for a SP over $90 though, and we have not gotten that.
I was right about B of A and Siri so I am due for a fall.
This is not a normal blue chip. Do you know the football expression of "forgetting the record when rivals face off"?
I am not talking about XOM and COP or others but the Mideast players.
The Russians are predicting an attack before summer. That is June 21 in this hemisphere and options day on this boat.
Now the R's are very interested in high oil prices and rthe scare works dandy for them. However, the Mideast looks a lot like a fireworks factory right now with everyone working to keep the place away from sparks.
Toss the records and your prior performance plotting. This is a one year play for anyone who is not into retirement although Nat Gas may come of age if we get some tech savvy people in the White House one of these days.
Any commodity is a gamble with more extreme results based on the crowd's demands and very intense supply changes.
I pray that your shorts work with the other option being war.
My numbers? I can see XOM at or over $90 on next earnings (April 26th) and well past $100 with ease with unpleasantness turning to violence in the Mideast. It is clear that the oil numbers have to be diluted with the gas pains but even so, the stock is way too low at $84 to $86.
A friend/expert ran the numbers and said that the war is not going to go with the script. He sees XOM going to $200 in a six month siege. Of course, I asked him who would be buying with the S & P at 1000....
Sirius XM Spectrum: Like Buying Property In Space [View article]
What an article!
I think that there is a point somewhere about SIRI not having a clear goal or content emphasis.
No, their management just hasn't found a way to get millions to rush at them with their money. I would like him to talk to my friend who think this is a $65 stock. To wit..
Lions Gate's 'The Hunger Games' Could Help The Stock Rise 50% [View article]
Cramer said it was too high...
just before an expert estimate that the film could gross over a billion dollars. Good thing I listen to The Daily Show for investment advice, thanks, Jon.
Action film The Hunger Games (LGF) gathers $68.25M in domestic box office, the fifth-best single-day gross ever - and may get into Harry Potter finale territory before the weekend is out. (earlier: I, II) [View news story]
I'm glad Cramer told everyone on CNBC to dump the stock on Friday.
Exxon Mobil: New Highs On Utica Shale, Rosneft In 2013 [View article]
U.S. GDP Data: Private Sector Grows 2.8% In Q1 2012, Government Continues To Shrink [View article]
It is a fact that the rich got richer, as a proportion of total wealth, since 2000 or so. It is also a fact that the bottom people largely pay no federal income taxes and have numerous inefficient programs.
Your comment about education is a joke. Everyone gonna be Chem engineers or doctors, eh or how about looking for a government job? The young got advice about that.
The unemployment is a micro problem and we have sent all the jobs for normal workers overseas. What do you think happened? Can you say "Dependent Class?"
It is a micro problem. Long unemployment pay and the other macro solutions do not work. The stimulus got a few roads fixed. Some junk electric car loan guarantees paid off donors. And our grandkids are gonna get that bill with the cost of the goofy wars.
Anyway, just tossing money at problems invites corruption and for the flow to end up in the same pockets. And a silly $6 Billion tax on the rich will not work either. Showmanship.
I have worked with the rehab programs for the stupid and the scum. I was one.
I offered $1 million on a bet I could cut unemployment. I was ignored.
U.S. GDP Data: Private Sector Grows 2.8% In Q1 2012, Government Continues To Shrink [View article]
Anyway, It is wrong. (Sigh)
Go put in 2000 to 2010 on this chart. A little different.
http://bit.ly/KooB6W
Buy This Oil Stock Now While The Price Is Low [View article]
And about their looking at small exploration oil companies? There are about 20,000 alternatives if they wanted to mess with them.
Having been an insider with a mega corp, I can tell you that they look for plays so large or complex only they can do them. Like the whole arctic north of Siberia.
It takes something special to move their needle. Mad Money just featured a small firm which is doing well picking trough their "left behind" wells. The expression is "too small to move their needle".
It is a predictable and slow needle but the firm has credit two levels better than the US gov't!
Exxon Mobil's Risky Gas Endeavors Could Sink Stock [View article]
She thinks First Solar is wonderful and hates oil and finance.
I have options or ownership of a lot of XOM. I wrote that $84 to $86 was too low a few weeks back. I also bet on $90 plus with any kind of a brake after earnings tomorrow. I may go down in flames.
The oil biz can go south if Iran decides to make nice till after November. They would be crazy not to do that....but they do have a track record.
But to suggest that these guys are bad because of volatility is really fair but obvious. We are talking about a commodity.
There are not any really safe stable stocks now. Have you looked at AAPL?
Is Exxon Mobil About To Waste $600 Million On Algae Research? [View article]
The energy industry attracts charlatans and wingnuts because of the emotional toll taken by swinging prices.
There is likely no home run coming very soon and it is foolish for policymakers to gamble on a dream but biotech is demonstrating that it has a role and we shall see how it develops.
Can Intel Become A Player In The Smartphone And Tablet Markets? [View article]
I am chasing XOM now but the same guy who got me to ride B of A to the hilltop is calling for Intel as a "start in 6" to and run to 18 month play. I think AAPL is still the fair haired boy until then. Whatever that is.
BP May Be The Hottest Stock For 2012, With 44% Upside [View article]
BTW, XOM is about to increase its dividend by up to 33%. This was in a range cited by the WSJ online today.
This is to be determined in the next two weeks so you don't need a big time discount on the news.
I have to find that guy who was saying to short everyone in the big oil biz. You have towatch what you predict here. was calling for a SP over $90 though, and we have not gotten that.
I was right about B of A and Siri so I am due for a fall.
Thanks.
Move Over Apple: Here Comes Sirius XM [View article]
I think a long on AAPL and the music to come from space kinda makes sense.
And name calling is a vice.
Pair Your Bank Of America Trade With Gold [View article]
Gold is a hedge again? Maybe. But it will likely rise with the dollar destruction in QE3.
Gold imitates a blue chip these days. Might as well buy COP or XOM.
Exxon Mobil: What Big Upside? [View article]
I am not talking about XOM and COP or others but the Mideast players.
The Russians are predicting an attack before summer. That is June 21 in this hemisphere and options day on this boat.
Now the R's are very interested in high oil prices and rthe scare works dandy for them. However, the Mideast looks a lot like a fireworks factory right now with everyone working to keep the place away from sparks.
Toss the records and your prior performance plotting. This is a one year play for anyone who is not into retirement although Nat Gas may come of age if we get some tech savvy people in the White House one of these days.
Any commodity is a gamble with more extreme results based on the crowd's demands and very intense supply changes.
I pray that your shorts work with the other option being war.
My numbers? I can see XOM at or over $90 on next earnings (April 26th) and well past $100 with ease with unpleasantness turning to violence in the Mideast. It is clear that the oil numbers have to be diluted with the gas pains but even so, the stock is way too low at $84 to $86.
A friend/expert ran the numbers and said that the war is not going to go with the script. He sees XOM going to $200 in a six month siege. Of course, I asked him who would be buying with the S & P at 1000....
Sirius XM Spectrum: Like Buying Property In Space [View article]
I think that there is a point somewhere about SIRI not having a clear goal or content emphasis.
No, their management just hasn't found a way to get millions to rush at them with their money. I would like him to talk to my friend who think this is a $65 stock. To wit..
SIRI has a monopoly on a blank screen.
SURROUNDING THE EARTH!!
They need to call marketers like LGF has.
Cramer's Lightning Round - Netflix Can Rebound (3/23/12) [View article]
Lions Gate's 'The Hunger Games' Could Help The Stock Rise 50% [View article]
just before an expert estimate that the film could gross over a billion dollars. Good thing I listen to The Daily Show for investment advice, thanks, Jon.
Action film The Hunger Games (LGF) gathers $68.25M in domestic box office, the fifth-best single-day gross ever - and may get into Harry Potter finale territory before the weekend is out. (earlier: I, II) [View news story]