Getting Ahead for the Little Guy
I keep hearing people calling the recently-completed “Cash for Clunkers” program a win for the economy.
I call B.S.
Now that I have a name for the “Broken Window Fallacy,” I’m seeing it in a lot of places in the current economic climate. And this is a pretty classic case, at least on the face of it. [...]
Wow. I won’t say that this won’t go any lower, but I calculated my target price of $12.50 for PALM via technical analysis. I set my sell order, which executed and made 33% for a position held for a week. I had gotten a little speculative and bought puts (bearish options that increase in value [...]
To me, THIS makes sense. John Mackey of Whole Foods has it right.
THIS (albeit a flawed interpretation of the bill that’s been going around) does not.
The arrogance of the few who believe they can manage the extreme complexities of their constituents lives and livelihood better from up top their ivory tower than the people they [...]
I was reading an article this week talking about a woman in her 40s who was only now starting to worry about investing. However, she had a sizeable amount of money sitting in savings. The article suggested that it was too bad she waited so late to get started, but that it was better late [...]
I chatted a bit with a friend of mine in the banking industry. He gave me some tidbits “from the trenches” those actively investing may want to pay attention to:
From his perspective, the residential real estate fiasco has pretty much run it’s course. They’ve written down their losses, and there’s a sense among the lenders [...]
I’m still a beginner investor, and right now I have several smaller investments rather than just one or two big ones. (My mutual funds, which used to be my only investments, have become relatively small indeed…)
But my favorite investment of them all right now is in a small, local raspberry farm. It wasn’t a public [...]