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  • Back to the Future - Commodities Rule Again
    Why have a computer if all it will help you do is just the same as everyone else?
    Jan 07 12:48 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • ConocoPhillips: More Than Just a Great Stock
    Why do you think COP does not currently trade in correlation to XOM and CVX?
    Jan 07 11:41 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Oil Income Stocks Decline to New Price Lows
    2008 was a hard year to make money for everyone on the long side of the market. Picking a few winners and losers out of many investment ideas is a suckers game. I have always had an easier time buying low than selling high. Well, 2009 will present us another opportunity to do just that. Now will somebody please remind me to sell high in a few years. I have appreciatedreading Mr Wulff's position even if I get it 30 days late on his website. It is a tool, not an oracle. Use it that way.

    Owning healthy dividend payers is my way of staying sane in this roller coaster market. What's yours?
    Jan 02 12:41 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Buying USO Is a No-Brainer
    The "nay's" have it.
    Dec 26 13:56 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • A New American Energy Policy
    I like your call for an Energy Freedom Tax but it seems to me to be a bit on the low side. Why not pay ourselves the next $1 on a gallon of gas since sooner or later OPEC will be getting another $1 anyway.

    I'm still skeptical of nuclear power. When Amory Lovins says it's OK then I will reconsider. Otherwise I like most of what you outline.
    Dec 22 11:25 am |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • The Madoff Affair: Were His Sons Actually Responsible?
    Follow the money and all will be revealed. Madoff and Co. are classic sociopaths in that they had no problem cheating "widows and orphans" along with the usual high net worth individuals. If you believe he acted alone I know some fishermen in Somalia looking for investors.
    Dec 18 12:11 pm |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Three Ways to Lock in Low Gas Prices
    For my money Canadian Royalty Trusts are a good buy at this time and will benefit handsomely from a rise in the price of oil or NG. Most have a long term commitment to paying healthy dividends so the income will sustain us while we wait for the inevitable. I'm in PGH, PWE, HTE among others.
    Dec 18 11:51 am |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Eleven Profitable Stocks Under $10 - Barron's
    Buy when everyone is selling, sell when everyone is buying. I wish I could remember this.
    Dec 16 12:25 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Buy, Sell or Hold: GM's Too-Big-to-Fail Myth
    The question now is not wether GM (and TB3)is too big to fail, but rather when we all admit that it has already failed in more ways than financially. Stockholders have the least to lose at this point with its rapidly disappearing market cap. A bail out is for the unions who, if they wanted to, could buy the company in its entirety for less than $3B. Their pension losses will probably amount to way more than that.

    Does GM have even one superior new idea to solve our transportation needs for this century? Is there one executive in all Detroit who inspires even a tenth of the confidence of say, Steve Jobs? Money flows to new ideas and inspiration. If GM has either one it is not sharing it with the rest of us. The king is dead, long live the king.
    Dec 02 13:46 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Looking Good: Genco in Particular, Shipping in General
    My guess is that banks are not interested at this time in making things harder for the drybulk shippers than they already are. I supported DSX eliminating the dividend next quarter to take advantage of adverse conditions. NM seems to be in a good position as well. DRYS continues to astound with poor management decisions.
    Nov 25 18:16 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • GM Could Benefit from Bankruptcy
    The GM shareholders, for all practical purposes, have already lost their stake in the company. A bailout now is for the unions. What are the unions willing to give in return? Reorganization will benefit the country in the long run after the hard changes are made and they must be made or we are throwing our bailout funds away.

    Sadly, the US auto industry has been arrogant and short sighted, both management and unions. They continue to offer inappropriate products for too much money, and sell at a loss. Face it, Honda and Toyota have done a better job and have saved American car buyers tons of money and aggravation. For years we have purchased new vehicles because we wanted one, not because we needed one. With this economic crunch it is just too easy to hang on to the old car for a few more years. This is hurting Honda and Toyota as well. The unsold cars are piling up at the ports.
    Nov 20 10:39 am |Rating: +1 -1 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Is Negative Dividend News Positive for the Stock Price?
    I own DSX and while I am disappointed with the dividend cut, I am pleased with the buy back and the conservative management decision to build cash for further investment in distressed assets. Management is alert to opportunities and is not increasing debt. Both moves portend larger dividends in the future when markets recover.

    Lets face it, if ships stop carrying grain, coal, and ore we have bigger problems in this world than dividends.
    Nov 17 10:38 am |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • As Russia Tests the Waters, Oil and Gas Showdown Looms
    Removing the missiles from Poland is a no brainer, so one has to wonder why Putin did not just wait for this to happen. I figure he gets an easy opportunity to look tough by demanding something that might have happened anyway. And he gets to increase tensions with The West which will ultimately move the price of oil higher. Low hanging fruit.

    Sadly Putin has joined with Chavez and Ahmadinijad in playing international politics for every petrodollar it is worth. Hopefully Mr Obama will not take the bait. We need a return to previous efforts towards nuclear disarmament and missile reduction, something the Bush administration did much to undermine.
    Nov 10 13:50 pm |Rating: 0 -1 |Link to Comment |View article
  • The Shallowest Generation
    Who said it 200 years ago?
    getting and spending we lay waste our powers,
    little in nature we see as ours.
    Nov 03 15:05 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Where Have All the Peak Oil Believers Gone?
    We have a narrow window of opportunity, historically speaking, to make the transition from fossil fuels to renewables. We received our wake up call with the recent price spikes in oil and now that the dust has settled for a time some are already denying what we all know is coming. We must seize this opportunity while we still have the capital generated by found resources to enable the shift to energy derived from ingenuity. The oil and NG are, in effect, the fuel to take us to the next level of sustainable and renewable energy. Future generations will be astounded that we actually burned such useful stuff as oil.
    Nov 03 01:37 am |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment |View article

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