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    • Fri Oct 3rd 14:14 PM
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      Portfolio Recovery Associates: Apropo of Bailouts
      PRAA is well run, has a record of making money on the debt they buy. They also are reputed to be more humane in their collection efforts than most in the business. I owned the stock some years ago, sold because times were too good (hedge funds were buying debt at too high a price) but I may have to revisit it, do new DD, as anyone should.

      The keys in this business are the price paid for the debt and the skill of the collection people--PRAA gets high marks in both categories from TMF, which has followed and recommended this stock for years.
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    • Fri Oct 3rd 14:05 PM
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      Turnabout: Wells Fargo's Better Deal for Wachovia
      Thr FDIC statement says it will study the deal and do what is in the best interests of the taxpayer. I take that to mean Citi is out (or "pantsed" as one columnist put it).
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    • Wed Oct 1st 15:20 PM
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      Does Warren Buffett Think Goldman Is More Creditworthy Than GE?
      Buffet's GS and GE investments seem to combine equal parts of opportunism, value hunting, and an ability to create value simply by endorsing strong institutions in trouble, all at a very cash high return to him. Now i know why he has been sitting on that growing pile of cash for all those years!
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    • Wed Oct 1st 15:10 PM
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      Does Warren Buffett Think Goldman Is More Creditworthy Than GE?
      Following the announcement, CNBC interviewed Buffet, who was on his airplane, which he said is powered by GE engines that were performing faultlessly! Buffet strongly endorsed GE, stated he believed the "bailout" will pass, and mentioned GS had brought him the GE deal.

      Maybe it's time to buy BRK again.

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    • Wed Oct 1st 14:27 PM
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      Buffett's Big Bet: The Real Value of the Berkshire Investment in Goldman Sachs
      Buffet is now putting $3B into GE, which is also issuing an additional $12B in common, in a deal similar to his GS deal, and which he says GS brought him, according to his interview today on CNBC.
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    • Wed Oct 1st 14:06 PM
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      GE Capital Default Risk Soars
      Buffet just said "if we don't (get Congressional action on the bailout plan), then I'll have done some dumb things."
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    • Wed Oct 1st 14:04 PM
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      GE Capital Default Risk Soars
      Buffet will buy$3B of preferred with a 10% return, get some warrants. Pfd is redeemable after 3 years, Buffet issued strong statement on strength of GE, is being interviewed on CNBC this minute.

      Buffet says deal similar to GS deal, GE approached him.
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    • Wed Oct 1st 14:00 PM
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      GE Capital Default Risk Soars
      CNBC is reporting that Warren Buffet will buy several $B of a new GE perpetual preferred and GE will sell $12B of common.
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    • Wed Oct 1st 13:54 PM
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      The Lowdown on Citi / Wachovia
      So Bob Steel's nickname is not "Stainless" after all.
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    • Wed Jun 4th 01:22 AM
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      Petrobras: Extremely Overvalued
      Frankly, I am disappointed with the heat and vitriol in the responses to this article. I hear people who are too much in love with their stock, people who vilify the author as a way of justifying their investment theses. This place is little better than Yahoo if this is the sort of "discussion" that greets a contrarian opinion.

      I sold my shares and am more comfortable having reduced my downside risk. Yes, the rewards may be great, but there is simply too much risk now, and there's plenty of time to re-enter if and when more is known about what is really down there.

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    • Mon Jun 2nd 03:12 AM
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      Petrobras: Extremely Overvalued
      Very convincing. I'm out tomorrow.
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    • Thu May 29th 01:27 AM
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      Yahoo's Jerry Yang: We're Done
      Very insightful. I think you've confirmed what Adami on Fast Money said--the way to play the Yahoo/MSFT deal is to own Google.
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    • Wed May 21st 02:29 AM
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      Kinder Morgan Energy Partners - Dividend Analysis
      KMP is a master limited partnership, not a corporation. It pays distributions to its unit holders, not dividends to stockholders. That distinction is important, because of the significant differences in business model and tax treatment.

      Otherwise, the article is a nice recital of easily available financial information, but it does not touch on the nature of the pipeline business or KMP's future. With the recent completion of the Rockies Express pipeline and other major capital projects, distributions should increase more rapidly than in recent years.

      And there is a nice irony for people who remember Enron--Rich Kinder founded his dynasty of pipeline MLPs after being passed over for the CEO job at Enron in favor of Jeff Skilling. Kinder then bought Enron's pipelines from then and went on to succeed where they could not.
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    • Sat Apr 19th 02:42 AM
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      'SuperREIT' CapitalSource Swoops Up Fremont's Branches
      Are you saying the TONE acquisition, which they worked on for a year, did nothing to prepare CSE for the acquisition of FIL's 22 branches? Do you dislike the assets--$3B in cash and a loan pool administered by someone else? Earlier you were concerned about dividend coverage, and rightly so--do you not think this acquisition will help them in that regard? If you are concerned about management, have you investigated to find out how many of Fremont's employees are coming with the acquisition? Given the straits Fremont is in, I would expect nearly all want to come to CSE.
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    • Wed Apr 9th 18:35 PM
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      35 Stocks That Ben Graham Would Like Here
      I believe FMD no longer pays a dividend. With TERI's bankruptcy and the securitization market frozen, FMD has no operable business plan and no guarantor for the loans. I would stay away from FMD.
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