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  • Promising Times for Green Hunter Energy
    I'm waiting for Green Hunter Energy to become earnings positive.
    Jan 06 18:43 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • What Do We Need In 2009? More Failure
    Right on the money!

    By not allowing failures to fold America is giving away one of its main competitive advantages. Pampering leads to inefficiency which is one reason America has outperformed Europe and Japan. Unfortunately, the bailout is evening out the playing field to America's detriment.

    Even if we accept that some banks are too big to fail, that is no excuse for bailing out inefficient car makers.

    And if some banks are too big to fail the right action is to break them up into smaller banks, not to bulk them up even more like the Fed bailout is doing. Remember how the breakup of Ma Bell lowered calling rates. The same kind of efficiency might find its way into the way banks do business if they had more competitors.
    Jan 02 09:18 am |Rating: +1 -1 |Link to Comment |View article
  • And The Winner Is: Family Dollar
    I sold FDO because I think it has done what it could do. There are so many other compelling buys out there that by comparison FDO is now overpriced.
    Jan 02 08:44 am |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Mobile Reading: Next Big Area of Innovation
    I've been reading on mobile devices most of my life: books and magazines. I seldom read on fixed devils like statues, pyramids, and murals.

    But I do admit that being able to take a laptop into the john has made books less of a necessity when performing that necessity.
    Dec 30 08:39 am |Rating: +3 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Government's Next Lesson: Small Is Beautiful
    You might want to read the truth about Chavez, "Why Chávez Will Ultimately Fail"

    softwaretimes.com/file...

    On Dec 04 10:11 AM James Wilson wrote:


    >
    > Also Socialism has been forced on most of the countries in South
    > America because of the U.S. Governments support of businesses who
    > were stealing their natural resources.
    >
    > Now Chanves is using their oil to benifit the people not a forgien
    > Corporation. If Corporations had show respect for people then Socialism
    > would not be an issue.
    Dec 12 11:09 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Government's Next Lesson: Small Is Beautiful
    > Now Chanves is using their oil to benifit the people not a forgien
    > Corporation.

    Not only is this not true, I know, Iive there, but you don't even know how to spell the name of your favorite despot. I guess spelling is not included in the socialist curricula.
    Dec 12 10:56 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • How Some of the Smartest Investors Turned Dumb in 2008
    I wish I had all that money to lose, sigh...

    >>>knocked the wind out of billionaire investors who should have known better.<<<

    Excuse me for saying so, but that is one unfair statement. When everyone makes the same mistake it is not a question of smart or dumb. More likely it is a question of Black Swans.
    Dec 12 09:22 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Google's Downfall: Search Engine Optimization
    >>>We encourage the intelligent marketing of one's product at all costs.<<<

    I think you need to slow down, take a deep breath, and rethink the snippet quoted above.

    While I certainly dislike Google's "I'm The Big Brother" attitude, Google's search works rather well. I'm getting good results both as a searcher and as a website owner and BOTH for free!

    As for GOOG, the stock, I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. It is an insult to investors. Insiders get ten votes per share while the regular investors only get one. Larry Page, Sergei Brin and Eric Schmidt want your money but not your opinion. They seem to worry about some kind of purity that the market would corrupt. It is just elitist nonsense. They should sell bonds and not stock.

    As for other Google services, their customer support sucks big time. I've stopped trying to use several of their offerings. Dealing with Big Brother Bureaucracy is a royal pain.
    Dec 08 08:01 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Government's Next Lesson: Small Is Beautiful
    Anything that is too big to fail must be broken up until it is small enough that failure is no longer an issue.

    Too big to fail means they have the Congress over a barrel and can extract any kind of concession they want.

    Under current procedures the Fed sells failed banks only to the biggest banks making them even bigger, just the opposite of what is needed.
    Dec 04 09:18 am |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Here Comes a Consumer Killer
    If you pay off your credit card on time each month you enjoy 2 or 3 week's free float. With the debit card the money is taken out of your account immediately. Also, by canceling the credit card you are eliminating a line of credit that could come in handy in an emergency. I think you are letting your emotions rule your financial life.

    Of course paying a late fee is painful so don't be late. Now that you can pay the card online, there is no reason to be late, ever.
    Nov 30 23:07 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Hedge Fund Tracking: Lee Ainslie's Maverick Capital, Q3 2008
    Reading these stock sheets is like reading a tip sheet and about as useful. Maverick will not call you up to tell you they changed their minds about a stock so you buy after Maverick has already pushed the price up and you sell after Maverick has already pushed the price down. Somehow that does not sound like the best way to invest, picking at hedge fund droppings.
    Nov 21 06:20 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • The Biggest Problem Detroit's Big Three Face
    These armored vehicles are no longer made by the big three but by the defense industry, companies like Textron (TXT) and Boeing (B).

    news.cnet.com/8301-107...

    www.globalsecurity.org...


    On Nov 16 12:29 PM stevendedalus wrote:

    > If we let the Big Three fail we are ingrates. The auto industry long
    > ago spearheaded the middle class. If we leave the industry to Japan
    > and Korea what happens to national defense. Have we forgotten the
    > tremendous role the Big Three played in mobilizing tanks and millions
    > of supportive vehicles during WWII?
    Nov 16 13:51 pm |Rating: +5 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • The Biggest Problem Detroit's Big Three Face
    Would you buy a car from a company about to go broke? Who is going to service your orphaned car?

    GM's problems are not new. Their management has been a disaster for decades. They offered me a management position back in 1965 and I refused because as a manager I would get neither authority nor responsibility for my department (IT). Decisions would be made in Detroit HQ and I would just be the lackey implementing them. No thanks!
    Nov 16 11:20 am |Rating: +2 -2 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Alternative Energy Storage: Cheap Will Beat Cool
    Great article!

    I have been an Apple fan since 1979 having been an Apple reseller and a Macintosh developer. I wouldn't touch a Windoze machine. But when it comes to buying Mac, I tend to buy the low end products. I'm writing this on an iBook G4 with the now obsolete PPC chip.

    An OS is not quite a commodity. There is a lot of personal investment in learning the use of an interface. This is why a technology to be disruptive must be ten times cheaper than the technology being disrupted according to Clayton Christensen. But energy is essentially fungible so expensive makes no sense except for very special uses like maybe a Mars orbiter.
    Nov 16 10:39 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • GE's Immelt Buys Shares - Should You?
    Aubrey K. McClendon bought shares of his company and he lost his whole position in a margin call:

    Chesapeake Energy CEO gets margin call; sells entire stake

    www.bloggingstocks.com.../

    Maybe by following GE's CEO you too can lose it all, maybe not. They are no better at predicting the future than the next fellow, insider info or not.
    Nov 14 08:10 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article

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