Being a value investor doesn't mean you have to hold forever. You CAN just hold until its reasonably valued. Admittedly you might leave...
15% of home sales in California are foreclosures now. The only people in trouble are the sub-prime, Alt-A, and ones with the creative loans....
Yup, it might fall. Then again, you could wake up and find the dollar 1/2% lower on any given morning, too.
If you know someone that has a certain set of components with the same OS you plan to run, and runs the same specialized software you plan to run,...
Buffet knows you can't "offshore" or "outsource" transportation, and with EVERYTHING being imported, plus coal being our only home grown fuel, the...
It also happens that the Chinese, Indians and Middle Easterners like to own gold as savings. One last little bounce for the dollar before the...
Maybe they top out when we get our deficits reigned in? Even with the silly supersized debt, if we didn't have a trade or budget deficit, I'd...
It has nothing to do with Iraq that I know of. There are 3 different groups included as "commercial" 1. Miners - they are never long, and...
jayford, you may be right, but if you are, it will be a dooozy of a recession, because of all the outstanding debt that the government, people,...
jerry, Do you see how the blue line is rising? That's the commercials reducing their short position. Note that the price of gold is rising...
Those were just the numbers, Pabst. If I were "thrifty" or "not thrifty", they'd still be the numbers. I'll have to remember to whine at the...
Uniting? Do you really think they would want to hook their wagons to the fiscal lunacy going on here?
Gross Wage grew by $1200 last year. Payroll taxes took over $450 of that, including Fed W/H, FICA, Medicare and State W/H. The company took...
BTW, I'm in metals because I expect currency devaluations this year. Stocks, bonds and cash do poorly in a devaluation scenario, because even...
There is almost no wage inflation in the US. For the salaried 10-12 hr days are the norm, and sure, they give you a 2 or 3% increase *IF* you are...
Trees will always keep growing to the sky....
It wasn't a joke. when i was a "newbie" I was getting killed, and that's how I fixed it.
I agree with trader above. A hike would be asking for a recession. A cut would cause a wholesale slaughter of the dollar. Therefore the Fed...
I could swear I'd read somewhere that consumer confidence numbers rising or falling predicted durable goods sales rising or falling.
I say go back to doing EXACTLY what you did in Jan/Feb, with just 1 minor exception. Sell when you think you should buy, and buy it back when...
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