March 12, 2010
- Janet Yellen A Cog In The Easy Money Wheel
With the the likely appointment of Janet Yellen to Vice Chairwoman of the Fed, don’t expect the easy money policy to grind to a halt. In fact, Janet “easy money” Yellen is more dovish than Kohn and another cog in the easy money wheel. She supports extremely low rates to keep this economy artificially [...]
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March 9, 2010
- Reactions To Cisco’s CRS-3 Router
The internet changing news from Cisco (CSCO) the tech world has been anxiously awaiting was unveiled today. Cisco’s CRS-3 router has been heralded by CEO John Chambers as a system that can download the Library of Congress in a second, stream every movie made in four minutes and allow simultaneous video calls by every single [...]
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A brief reprieve from regular programming to bring you this entertaining story out of fantasy land.. I mean Hollywood. Lindsay Lohan, clearly confused and out of touch with reality OR “just following the advice of a greedy lawyer”, is actually filing a lawsuit against Etrade (ETFC) because she feels that the Etrade Milkaholic ad is [...]
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March 4, 2010
- Facebook IPO In 2011?
The biggest IPO story since Google will continue to leave investors wondering. While the Facebook IPO will happen, there are still no imminent plans with founder Zuckerberg saying “we’re definitely in no rush”, according to a WSJ article today. He makes a good point in that the company is in the envious position of [...]
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July 26, 2009
- A Summer Hiatus Begins..
It’s been more than five years now running Self Investors and it’s time for me to reflect and revitalize. Blogging, researching and trading the markets can be incredibly demanding at times, particularly over the past two years and quite frankly, I’m exhausted and need a break. I’m not breaking 100%, but am scaling back for [...]
July 22, 2009
- Amazon (AMZN) Goes Shopping: Gets Zappos.com For $930 Million
Amazon (AMZN) just made a terrific move after the bell today, making its largest purchase ever. It’s acquiring Zappos.com for about $890 million in stock (based on today’s closing price) plus another $40 million in restricted stock and cash. Zappos.com is the leading online shoe retailer that did a billion bucks in revenue last year [...]
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April 27, 2009
- Swine Flu Stocks
According to StreetInsider.com, the following companies may benefit from protection, therapy and/or vaccination against swine flu. Most of these are highly speculative so trade at your own risk.
Alpha Pro Tech (APT) – protects people with disposable protective apparel such as masks.
Generex Biotechnology (GNBT) – developing drug delivery systems.
Hemispherx BioPharma (HEB) – engaged in [...]More on this topic (What's this?)Markets Coming Down with Swine Flu (Investment U, 4/27/09)Swine Flu Virus and the Cost of Staying Home (Saving to Invest, 4/28/09)Are the Markets Too Complacent About Swine Flu? (naked capitalism, 4/30/09)Black Swans and Dead Pigs - Why Swine Flu Is No Joke (Contrarian Profits, 5/5/09)
March 5, 2009
- Jon Stewart Takes On Cramer, Santelli & Rest of CNBC
Last night Jon Stewart took on CNBC, particularly Jim Cramer and Rick Santelli. Stewart highlights several clips of Cramer recommending buying stocks at the top of the market in late 07 and early 08, including a call that Bear Stearns was fine. The beginning of the rant was aimed at Santelli for canceling an appearance [...]
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February 20, 2009
- Block The Trader Tax Bill HR 1068
You may have heard that US congressman Peter DeFazio introduced H.R. 1068 “Let Wall Street Pay for Wall Street’s Bailout Act of 2009″ which seeks to impose a .25% transaction tax on the sale and purchase of financial instruments such as stocks, options and futures in order to recoup bailout costs.
This bill would essentially [...]More on this topic (What's this?)Guest Post: Greenspan Says Worst Financial Crisis EVER, INCLUDING the Great Depression (naked capitalism, 2/23/10)How to Reduce Your Tax Bill Liability By Lowering Your Taxable Income and Claiming More Deductions (Saving to Invest, 2/24/10)Elizabeth Warren Explains (Part of) the Financial Crisis So even 3rd Graders Can Understand (Fund my Mutual Fund, 2/2/10)The U.S. opts for the bailout hustle over the Swedish banking crisis response (naked capitalism, 2/22/10)
February 3, 2009
- Online Financial Magazines Headlines
Just a quick heads up to let you know that I’ve created a new page that tracks headlines from top online finance magazines.
I’ve added Barrons, BusinessWeek, CNN/Money, SmartMoney, Kiplinger and Forbes (and will add the WSJ once they get their RSS feeds working!) I’ll probably add a few more in the coming weeks.
This page will [...]
January 29, 2009
- Details of Economic Stimulus Package: Too Much Pork, Too Little Stimulus
The nearly $900 billion (remember when $350 billion was expensive?) economic stimulus package, aka the Pork Package set forth by Democrats cleared the House and heads to the Senate with zero Republican support. If signed into law it would push federal debt to levels not seen since WWII. With support for many social programs, many [...]
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January 26, 2009
- Peter Schiff’s Euro Pacific Capital Down 40 – 70% in 2008?
If you’ve been following the financial markets this year with any degree of interest, you’ve probably heard of Peter Schiff. He’s been a media favorite over the past year for calling the US financial collapse and has been everywhere from CNBC to Glenn Beck to CNN to Fox to Bloomberg. I even spotted him in [...]
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January 22, 2009
- The Nasdaq Government Relief Index Tracks Big TARP Companies
The Nasdaq OMX has put together an equal weighted index (called the Nasdaq Government Relief Index) of 24 companies that have received over 1 billion in government relief in the form of TARP or other programs. Any index without volume numbers isn’t of much use to me from a trading perspective, but nonetheless it might [...]
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November 17, 2008
- Mark Cuban Charged With Insider Trading Mamma.com
Mark Cuban has always said he hates to lose and that passion for "not losing" has him in hot water with the SEC. The WSJ is reporting that Cuban sold his 6% stake in Mamma.com (now Copernic ticker CNIC) just one day ahead of a tip in 2004 that the company was prepared to dilute [...]
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October 30, 2008
- Was Charlie Gasparino Drunk?
What a strange exchange between Dylan Ratigan and the always controversial and fiery Charlie Gasparino near the end of the day today. It appeared that Charlie hit the all you can drink liquid lunch buffet this afternoon before appearing on CNBC. Dylan was asking about a Merrill Lynch merger but he just mumbled to [...]
August 13, 2008
- The Pelosi & Pickens Profit Plan With Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE)
Nancy Pelosi is quite a busy woman these days. Juggling the House Speaker role, a new book, chair of the Democratic Convention. Now she’s "trying to save the planet" by sparring with Republicans over offshore drilling issues. Are Pelosi action figures next?
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March 16, 2008
- Fed Cuts Discount Rate, JP Morgan (JPM) Buys Bear Stearns (BSC) For 2 Bucks
This is the kind of news that will at least begin the process of a true bottom. I’ve been talking about the cycle of greed and fear recently and the need for a big institution to go under. Call it what you want but Bear Stearns being taken out for 2 bucks is a hair [...]
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February 10, 2008
- Yahoo Rejects Microsoft, Google Wins
We’ll see books written about this epic battle of the 3 tech behemoths – Microsoft, Yahoo and Google. Another chapter was written this morning as Yahoo defiantly rejected Microsoft’s bid indicating it "massively undervalued" the company and that the company isn’t likely to consider an offer below 40. There has been talk of Yahoo partnering [...]
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February 7, 2008
- Vanguard Mutual Funds Tops in 07
According to Reuters, Vanguard Mutual Funds pulled in the most money to its stock and bonds mutual funds in 2007, eclipsing American Funds which held the top spot since 2002. Vanguard saw net inflows of 76.2 billion last year compared to 42.7 billion in 2006 as investors poured money into its safer money market accounts and [...]
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January 14, 2008
- Brief Hiatus
Between battling flu bugs and an exhausting move I’m just not able to get back up to speed here in 08 as quickly as I had hoped. Posting will be light again from me this week but I fully expect to be back working my tail off next week to bring you profitable ideas. In [...]
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