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It sure looks like spain is the next greece

2012-05-24T20:06:02.165-04:00

It sure looks like spain is the next greece

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2012-03-22T06:10:10.196-04:00

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2012-03-15T03:58:06.475-04:00

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2012-03-15T03:57:25.639-04:00

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Although warren buffett has been a really great va...

2012-02-28T14:08:31.574-05:00

Although warren buffett has been a really great value investor. He's not beyond falt. Warren buffet bought some banking stocks in ireland that did not work out. To all those of you that are Warren buffett fans' Warren has also stated on many occasions that his holding company berkshire hathaway will not deliver the great returns of the past simply because of its size it must invest for the most part in lsrge cap and mega cap stocks which generally do not produce really large returns.

The next subprime bubble could very well be colleg...

2012-02-28T14:05:44.608-05:00

The next subprime bubble could very well be college student loans many of them insured by the government.

Warren buffett recently hade some interesting thin...

2012-02-28T14:02:00.146-05:00

Warren buffett recently hade some interesting things to say about housing

I cannot believe that something like this can happ...

2012-02-28T13:59:28.058-05:00

I cannot believe that something like this can happen in the united states of america. We who live in the united states where the type of type of financial shenanigans occuring on a daily basis would only be thought of as happening in third world countries maybe South America. But now their happening here. In some cases daily. I don"t believe that we are seeing so much of a big increase in the financial shenanigans today but less enforcment of violations of securities laws by the SEC. I can remember back in the nineteen eighities when almost two thirds of all the savings and loans were taken over by the FDIC the arm of the federal government that is suppose to regulate banks and other financial institutions. Their were thousands of persons charged with all sorts of crimes during and after the savings and loan debacle. I cannot believe that not anyone on wall street has been charged with any sort of crime whatsoever after the financial crisis of two thousand eight and two thousand nine that almost brought down the whole financial system.

Nothing is recession proof nothing. Recession resi...

2012-02-28T13:54:35.657-05:00

Nothing is recession proof nothing. Recession resistant thats another matter.

The Recent jobs report that came out is really not...

2012-02-28T13:51:14.540-05:00

The Recent jobs report that came out is really not anything to get very excited about. If you take a far deeper look into the data released you will find that much of the increase in employment was temporary employment during the last couple of months of the year. I believe that much of the current employment problems stem from a lack of real wealth creating companies. Untill the country gets away from all the jobs in the financial service sector. I believe that the unemployment situation will not improve. Jim Rogers has stated this in many of the interviews that he has given to the news media that the financial services sector is much to large. Jim Rogers also believes that the savings rate must be much higher if we are to sustain any high degree of economic growth. Many retailers can make more money loaning money to their customers at 20% interest than they can make selling product to their customers. What does that tell you about jobs.

I would avoid all financial stocks like citi group...

2012-02-28T13:47:58.304-05:00

I would avoid all financial stocks like citi group now and in the future.

If you think college cost a lot today wait a few y...

2012-02-28T13:45:28.053-05:00

If you think college cost a lot today wait a few years. The states are nearly broke today and they will be even more broke a few years from now. I would recommend that any parents thinking about paying for their childrens education. Pick a college and Prepay now so when your children are 18 years old you will not have to come up with the money for their education because some schools that you choose will give their word that what you paid today is good for the life of the student no worrying about the inflation of college costs if you prepay today.

I was recently talking to former college student I...

2012-02-28T13:32:46.730-05:00

I was recently talking to former college student I know at work about higher education' she has sixty thousand dollars of student loan debt. I asked here if see thought college should be free and here response was no that it would be a bad idea because than it would lose much of its high regard if it were free. I tend to agree. I don't know a lot about higher education. I taught myself to type on the computer. Although I believe that some education beyond high school is useful. I believe that society places to much weight on the four year degree. She commented that here husband was working at a retail store and the management was impressed enough with his job performance that they enrolled him in a management training program when they checked their personal records they found that he did not have a college degree so they unenrolled him and at that point he left the company. The Idea was that higher education is the great equalizer as far as socioeconomics go but in many cases today it has become the great unequalizer. Another guy I know used to work for ford motor he told me that he applied for a job as a department head at the plant but he was rejected not because of a lack of ability he was qualified they told him that he did possess the skills and ability to handle the job but he lacked a college degree. We have now created a class structure based on these varying degrees' high school' associate' bachelors' masters' or doctorate. Now we have a situation where because of the inflation in higher education costs the likelihood of someone at the middle of the totem pole as far as family income goes has less ability to qualify for and meet the financial qualifications of higher education unless their willing to go deeply into debt or unless their very bright which would mean they could qualify for a scholarship' what about everybody else. What if the standard for getting that better job becomes not the bachelors but the masters degree this will only increase the inequality even more leaving only the rich and affluent to take advanage of higher education and qualify for all the better jobs. All this system of things does is create even more inequality than we already have. This is anything but a positive development.

Im not a big fan of exchange traded funds that emp...

2012-02-18T12:28:54.603-05:00

Im not a big fan of exchange traded funds that employ leverage.

Theirs a lot to be said about being in tune with w...

2012-02-18T12:26:08.909-05:00

Theirs a lot to be said about being in tune with what type of securities your buying high risk low risk and anything in between.

I think theirs more to the solution to are economi...

2012-02-18T12:17:39.168-05:00

I think theirs more to the solution to are economic problems that just linking the dollar to gold.

I would be careful when entering Emerging Markets....

2012-02-18T12:14:24.492-05:00

I would be careful when entering Emerging Markets.

And soon it will pass two trillion.

2012-02-18T12:12:10.091-05:00

And soon it will pass two trillion.

I would have to agree with the post its a great ti...

2012-02-18T12:08:39.204-05:00

I would have to agree with the post its a great time for young people to buy a home simply because their are so many places in the country where home prices have become attractive. Thirty year fixed rate mortgage rates are now under four percent. I can remember years back when housing was king long before the housing bust. Everybody had the expection that home prices would always increase. Even myself as far as that go's almost believed in this fairy tale. And it was just that a fairy tale as long as it lasted. I don't have the data in front of me but I think their was only one or two years from 1945 to the early 2000's that national home prices declined. Their were pockets of weakness in texas during the oil bust of the 1980's but over all prices increased steadly from 1945 to about 2006. One giant bubble

I think options should not be classified equities...

2012-02-18T12:04:27.028-05:00

I think options should not be classified equities.

I believe the jury is still out on electric cars.

2012-02-18T12:01:21.785-05:00

I believe the jury is still out on electric cars.

High yield closed end bond funds were yielding ove...

2012-02-18T11:57:34.854-05:00

High yield closed end bond funds were yielding over 20% back in 2008and 2009. That would have been the best time in three decades to buy into these type of funds.

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