These stocks edged up in a bad market.
- 28 mins ago, 23 Feb 12, 2:11am -

The computer builder looks healthier than ever, but you wouldn't guess it from the evening's market action.
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Qualcomm is the one and only.
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Enbridge's success depends on shaking off missed expectations and advancing its Northern Gateway project.
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I know plenty of people who think that sleep is unimportant. Or beyond that, they feel they maximize their productivity or value by sacrificing sleep. I’ve never held that this is true. In college I pulled my fair share of … Continue reading →
- 18 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 8:30am -

While I always encourage caution in regard to investing in the latest and greatest technology at the drop of the hat, I do think it’s important to try and keep an idea of how technology is impacting the world, and … Continue reading →
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The other day I was listening to some stock-picking gurus review several of their favorite picks. One of them mentioned Visa and Mastercard as one of their favorite companies given the “new, electronic economy.” They went on to say, “I … Cont…
- 13 days ago, 9 Feb 12, 4:58pm -

Indorama Ventures PCL (IVL.TH), an integrated polyester chain producer, said Thursday an indirectly owned subsidiary has acquired 51% of a packaging company in Northern Ireland.
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BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP) said Thursday it plans to suspend production at its manganese alloy production facility in Tasmania by mid-March, a move reflecting the growing strains on Australia's manufacturing industry as much as the diverging fortunes of…
- 46 mins ago, 23 Feb 12, 1:53am -

Banpu PCL (BANPU.TH), Thailand's largest coal miner by revenue, said its 2011 net profit fell 17%, mainly because of lower divestment gains.
- 2 hours ago, 23 Feb 12, 1:09am -

Russian bank VTB is in talks with the central bank for fresh, uncollaterized liquidity to aid loan growth, the Financial Times reported Wednesday citing the bank's chief executive.
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Have you filed your taxes yet? I haven’t. In fact, I rarely get things pulled together this early. But some people do. And it won’t be long before at least a few of them are wondering why their tax refund has shown up.Well, the good folks over a…
- 9 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 5:15pm -

The last 10 to 15 years have seen unprecedented numbers of Americans doing wacky things with their money, and paying big time for their mistakes.About 12 years ago, for instance, a lot of folks bought into the tech bubble just before it became a tec…
- 1 day ago, 21 Feb 12, 4:43pm -

On the way to work the other day, I stopped off for a cup of coffee. Yes, I’ve started drinking coffee — though I usually brew it at home — but that’s not really the point.The point here is that, while I was at the coffee shop, a guy walked…
- 2 days ago, 20 Feb 12, 7:30pm -

I don’t usually cover politics here, but Congress has passed a couple of recent bills that have the potential to affect your pocket book.For starters, the STOCK Act has been gradually making it’s way through Congress. This is the legislation tha…
- 5 days ago, 17 Feb 12, 6:02pm -

Small businesses often require a substantial line of credit early on to survive the start-up stage. In a perfect world, everyone would have the cash to fund their start-up but it’s not always that easy. These days, finding a bank that can lend to s…
- 6 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 8:25pm -

Improving your financial situation requires more than just trying harder. People who write financial websites offering advice often think or imply that the reason for financial misfortune is ignorance of the basics. Recently, there was one website th…
- 12 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 2:13pm -

As more consumers in the United States are jumping on the smartphone and tablet bandwagon — personally, I contribute to this mess with one of the latest phones with Android software as well as a first-generation iPad — there’s less room in the…
- 1 day ago, 21 Feb 12, 5:00pm -

This is a guest article by Jennifer Calonia, Junior Editor at GoBankingRates. In the article, the author helps couples in search of their dream wedding decide which expenses are worth paying more money for. The pressure to plan a perfectly executed w…
- 2 days ago, 21 Feb 12, 1:00pm -

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is considering policy changes that include a plan to allow customers to trade through futures brokerage firms without keeping their excess cash there.
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Mary L. Schapiro, the S.E.C.'s chairwoman, said she believed that the agency's settlement practices had a deterrent value, but that repeat offenders were a problem.
- 4 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 10:17pm -

American regulators charged two Chinese executives with defrauding investors of hundreds of millions of dollars by secretly stealing and selling the assets of Puda Coal.
- 5 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 9:16pm -

Danny Meyer, whose New York restaurant empire includes Gramercy Tavern and Maialino, is moving in on the finance clientele that was offended by Mario Batali after the Croc-wearing food impresario made anti-Wall Street comments last year. Mr. Meyer re…
- 5 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 9:11pm -

Goldman Sachs' first-quarter income fell 72 percent after the bank paid $1.64 billion in dividends to redeem preferred shares it issued to billionaire investor Warren Buffett during the financial crisis.The New York investment bank said Tuesday t…
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Health care giant Johnson & Johnson says sales rebounded but its profit dropped 23 percent in the first quarter, due to higher expenses, costs of recalls and litigation and a tax gain that boosted results a year ago.Adjusted earnings topped expecta…
- 19 Apr 11, 1:22pm -

Shares in British luxury goods company Burberry Group PLC jumped Tuesday after the company reported strong second-half sales and predicted a full-year profit at the top end of market forecasts.Burberry's popularity in the Asia Pacific region, parti…
- 19 Apr 11, 1:04pm -

Filed under: Citigroup Inc. (C)Citigroup's first-quarter income fell 32 percent on lower revenue from its investment banking business and a decline in consumer loans. The bank was able to set aside fewer reserves for losses as more borrowers were…
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Truckline.com ArticleCompared with October 2008, SA tonnage fell 5.2 percent, which was the best year-over-year showing since November 2008. In September, the index was down 7.3 percent from a year earlier.
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St. Louis Fed: FRED Graph
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St. Louis Fed: Series: TCU, Capacity Utilization: Total Industry
- 22 Nov 09, 11:24pm -

GBP/USD is trying to get back into long term upward trend but before doing so, it is taking some retrace and that retracement move seems to be completed. The first retracement level can be seen around 1.5750 level and break of that will set an import…
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EUR/USD seems all set for an extended move in long term upward trend and for both the long term and intra-day traders will be looking to buy EUR/USD on dips to some reasonable levels. The first level that the traders will be looking to enter the mark…
- 1 day ago, 21 Feb 12, 7:33pm -

GBP/USD is trying to get back into long term upward trend but before doing so, it has to break a few important resistance level. The first resistance level can be seen around 1.5885 level and break of that will set an important level around 1.6000 wh…
- 2 days ago, 20 Feb 12, 7:15pm -

his week I am going to have some great market ideas for you as I do every week :) but first I want to give some shout outs to some friends of mine that helped my trading this week.
- 4 days ago, 18 Feb 12, 9:51pm -

The New York Times has provided a handy blogging point for today in the form of a long piece on the relationships Tim Geithner formed while head of the New York Fed. The story is based in part on the results of a Times FOIA request, for the contents…
- 27 Apr 09, 1:26pm -

There are many more pandemic threats than there are pandemics, and so I hope and expect that swine flu will run its course fairly quickly and without too much damage being done. Still, it's difficult to overstate how bad the timing is here. Not that…
- 27 Apr 09, 12:45pm -

Matt Yglesias contrasts the fates of the Flint, Michigan and Baltimore, Maryland and the respective policies those fates imply. Where Flint is a declining city in a declining region, which needs help managing its decline, Baltimore is a struggling ci…
- 26 Apr 09, 2:00pm -

One of the stories that was circulating through CNN's news coverage this weekend (but which may have now been crowded out by swine flu, on which more later), was a major bust of counterfeit goods in Brooklyn, New York. Authorities had discovered a st…
- 26 Apr 09, 1:36pm -

Please go here to access The NEW Kirk Report. Please update your bookmarks accordingly. Thank you!
- 3 Sep 10, 8:37pm -

You see, even a blind squirrel can find an acorn once in a while... This was an archived video of my weekend chart show that I provided for members last Sunday. A number of members have found my videos helpful...
- 12 Aug 10, 4:48pm -

It is with great pleasure that I offer this interview with James Altucher. James has been one of the most outspoken bloggers and traders of our generation and, as a consummate contrarian, his opinions frequently fly opposite to conventional wisdom...…
- 7 Aug 10, 1:34pm -

A few of my favorite links to review over the weekend... Markets by the numbers (MarketBeat) Investor fears outweigh stunning earnings gains (USA Today) This week's top stories (Street Insider) Other than the Friday jobs report, what on tap for...
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Chart.
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Video.
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War's economic impact.
- 9 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 5:59pm -

The famed funnyman got a glossy annual report from the Franklin Corporation in 1961, what follows is his letter to the president of the company...
- 9 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 5:30pm -

Well, that's another way poker might be like trading: It's easy to participate, difficult to sustain success. Many just play for the thrills of winning and losing; relatively few systematically learn from experience and build skills over time. One…
- 12 Jul 10, 5:11pm -

Welcome to the TraderFeed blog. TraderFeed began in December, 2005 as a project to help me think aloud about trading and market psychology, market patterns, and the short-term trading of financial markets. Over the subsequent four+ years, the blog…
- 12 Jul 10, 5:10pm -

Here is the second and final installment of TraderFeed's Best of 2010 posts. You can find the first group of best posts here. The links below cover March - May, 2010. * Suggestions for Your Trading Journal* Why I Am A Trader* Lessons From Blues…
- 9 May 10, 12:26pm -

In anticipation of winding down the blog, I assembled highlight posts from January and February, 2010, covering trading psychology and market topics:* Building Motivation Through Optimism* Changing How We Think* The Trading Process and Generating…
- 8 May 10, 5:46pm -

Invest Your Money? Sometimes investment concepts appear to be simple; yet most people fail to meet their retirement goals because they miss the basics. These two simple investment concepts are extremely basic; yet if you fail either one you will prob…
- 34 mins ago, 23 Feb 12, 2:05am -

This past week my wife and took a vacation for the first time in over a year. Most years we'll use our timeshare in Aruba. However, we decided to take advantage of living on the left coast and opted for Maui instead. When we move back to the East Coa…
- 1 hour ago, 23 Feb 12, 1:36am -

Credit card fraud can hit you suddenly, or only be discovered over time, but it’s always unexpected. I recently had more than my fill of this costly inconvenience, when two credit cards were hacked and used against my will in the same week. Thankfu…
- 2 hours ago, 23 Feb 12, 12:49am -

Psst – Want to buy a beautiful Digital SLR Camera for the price of a few coffees? How about five nights in London just for staying in a little more often?It’s often said that a picture paints a thousand words. These days we tend to use infogra…
- 4 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 10:29pm -

With winter coming to an end and warm weather closing in across the country, homeowners are beginning to think about landscaping ideas for the spring season. Even if yard work isn’t your ideal past time, a little bit of effort is needed to ensure t…
- 13 Jun 11, 12:15pm -

Regardless of where you live or which cable provider you choose to do business with, you probably feel like you’re paying too much and that your cable company is taking advantage of you. You can find various ways to lower your monthly bill, such as…
- 13 Jan 11, 8:32pm -

How to make money while at home is well documented, but what about literally using your home to make money? You may not have considered it in the past, but there are some great ways to use your home, and even your car, to boost your income. Here are…
- 1 Dec 10, 2:00pm -

Are you thinking about hiring a tax professional? On the surface, this is something that appears to be simple enough. But once you dig deeper, you will find that you have many decisions to make. Most importantly, you need to decide which type of tax…
- 10 Nov 10, 11:00am -

Do you live a healthy lifestyle? I have always considered myself to be a fit person. I don’t smoke or drink in excess, although I do allow myself a glass of wine every now and then. My diet has always been filled with fresh fruits and vegetables an…
- 16 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 11:09am -

Lifestyle creep is defined as increasing your expenses or standard of living as your income increases rather than keeping your expenses constant and saving the difference as you earn more.  Many people are aware of lifestyle creep as your income inc…
- 2 days ago, 21 Feb 12, 11:19am -

How many extra income sources does your family have (besides your job)? Do any of them demand your physical presence throughout the year? Are any of these extra income sources tied to a specific country, state, or geographic region? I believe it is c…
- 3 days ago, 20 Feb 12, 1:05pm -

I know many of us are counting down the days until the warmer weather and our coveted vacation time. Now is the perfect time to start booking hotels for the best deals. However, before you confirm your room arrangements, there are a few things to che…
- 6 days ago, 17 Feb 12, 11:21am -

If you are still employed, you may feel lucky and cursed at the same time. This is because while there are less people in your office, the workload is the same. With less people in the office, you have to do double and in some cases triple the amount…
- 26 mins ago, 23 Feb 12, 2:13am -

This is part two to a series on credit cards and where our country is heading when it comes to credit card debt. In the previous post in this series we talked about some of the statistics in the credit industry and how to interpret them to get an ide…
- 13 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 2:04pm -

This is part three in a five part series on what you need to know about mortgages before you buy a home. The housing market is an interesting beast, because it comes and goes, rises and falls, allows some people to flourish and brings others to ruins…
- 1 day ago, 22 Feb 12, 1:53am -

Short term investments are the most ideal form of investing if you want to invest over a period that is relatively short. Cash manager accounts make it possible to access your money whenever you need to. Fixed term deposit investments secure your mon…
- 2 days ago, 21 Feb 12, 1:40pm -

4 Indian business schools out of 6 in the list have finally made the mark amongst top 10 B-schools in the Asia-Pacific region, according to QS Global 200 Business Schools Report. IIM-Ahmedabad is ranked second, IIM-Bangalore is ranked fifth, Indian S…
- 18 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 8:25am -

Indian NGOs have come a long way in terms of raising funds for charitable causes. While most major Indian NGOs have a fairly good web presence since the past few years, GiveIndia and GuideStar India has emerged as mature online platforms that allow o…
- 19 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 7:28am -

Initial Public Offering (IPO) has lost its sheen on the Dalal Street since a long time now. Invariably, the sentiment in the IPO market is directly proportional to the optimism-count in the secondary market. Now that the market sentiment has improved…
- 2 days ago, 21 Feb 12, 11:06am -

After nearly 2 years, Blackberry has finally agreed to setup its server in Mumbai, India. This controversy has had quite a effect on Blackberry’s business in India. According to the latest report by convergence catalyst, Blackberry marginally lost…
- 2 days ago, 21 Feb 12, 6:58am -

(02-22) 17:48 PST Wilmington, Del. (AP) -- A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Wednesday approved close to $370,000 in bonuses for 20 employees of Solyndra LLC, a solar panel manufacturer that received a half-billion dollar... Presented By:…
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(02-22) 17:48 PST JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) -- Current and former aides to Sarah Palin lashed out Wednesday at HBO's "Game Change," describing the upcoming film's depictions of her on the 2008 campaign trail as "sick" and...
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(02-22) 16:45 PST CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Prime Minister Julia Gillard put her job on the line Thursday, announcing a leadership ballot in hopes of quashing a comeback by the premier she ousted in a Labor Party coup....
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(02-22) 16:25 PST DETROIT (AP) -- Ford Motor Co. will pump $3.8 billion into its global pension plans this year as it tries to get them closer to fully funding their obligations. The company also raised the annual pay...
- 2 hours ago, 23 Feb 12, 12:25am -

 Homeowners facing foreclosure undoubtedly wonder whether there are options less severe to their credit scores. For example, will a short sale or deed-in-lieu of foreclosure be less damaging to your credit score? Unfortunately, the answer may not…
- 21 Apr 10, 9:39pm -

Want to win a $1,000 Ikea gift card? Last week, 37,000 Facebook users wanted one, too. Only, there wasn't really a gift card, just several screens that capture personal information and coax victims into signing up for a marketing offer. These marketi…
- 19 Apr 10, 5:22pm -

Learning about credit and credit cards often takes trial and error. Unfortunately, those errors can ruin an 18-year-old's credit score early on and follow him or her around for seven years, or as many as 10 years if that error happens to be bankruptc…
- 15 Apr 10, 3:14pm -

Yep...the library. Borrowing instead of buying books is one of the most obvious, painless ways to save a ton of money.It hurts me a little to say this, because I used to be in the book publishing industry and made my living from people buying books.…
- 14 Apr 10, 7:51pm -

Another day, another Greek deal to end them all (more on that soon). Amid the political din, legal and financial complexity, one thing has struck me: the entire enterprise is being justified as a way to avoid "disorderly default." But...
- 1 day ago, 21 Feb 12, 2:55pm -

Not surprisingly, there's been some attempts to downplay the significance of the SF City Assessor-Recorder foreclosure audit. The attacks have come in three flavors: questions about the auditors' own background; questions about the accuracy of the re…
- 4 days ago, 18 Feb 12, 4:26pm -

“Greeks are protesting new austerity measures” is a common headline these days. It definitely captures some of what protesting Greeks are doing, but certainly leaves a whole lot out of the picture. Many Greeks are protesting not only the deterior…
- 5 days ago, 17 Feb 12, 5:54pm -

Today I'm off to the Wharton Restructuring and Turnaround Conference, which looks to be a great, high level discussion of all things chapter 11ish. But it is surely a sign of the times that the keynote speaker is a banking...
- 6 days ago, 17 Feb 12, 7:30am -

Pinterest is the social media flavor of the month. But a four-point marketing assessment suggests banks and credit unions should pass over it.
- 19 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 8:01am -

Community banks and credit unions can demonstrate their support for local businesses by organizing groups of shoppers armed with cash.
- 2 days ago, 21 Feb 12, 8:01am -

To monitor the social web, some financial institutions need a more sophisticated tool than what the free solutions around today offer.
- 3 days ago, 20 Feb 12, 8:01am -

Credit Karma's Justine Rivero explores three trends credit card marketers need to be mindful of in 2012.
- 5 days ago, 17 Feb 12, 7:06pm -

Everyone is so desperate to buy a child plan (example). The features of so-called children plan are bundled in a way that it looks magical, [...]
- 3 days ago, 20 Feb 12, 5:30am -

Today I want to show you how 2 fellow readers of this blog were in a fix when it came to their hard-earned money and [...]
- 7 days ago, 16 Feb 12, 4:30am -

There is a great confusion among investors on how PPF interest is calculated ? Just because a lot of investors don’t know this , they [...]
- 10 days ago, 13 Feb 12, 4:30am -

A lot of us do not have even an idea on how much money we have in our Employee Providend fund account (EPF) . So [...]
- 14 days ago, 9 Feb 12, 3:15am -

Work and productivity to a very large extent depends on ...
- 17 days ago, 6 Feb 12, 5:41am -

The debt problems experienced by people of USA are increasing ...
- 62 days ago, 23 Dec 11, 7:57am -

The harmony and productivity existing at a workplace is influenced ...
- 64 days ago, 21 Dec 11, 6:26am -

Home owner’s insurance policies or the renter’s insurance policy often ...
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- 3 hours ago, 23 Feb 12, 12:06am -

HDFC Bank has one of the best interest rates on its NRE fixed deposits. Following are the present rates. All NRI banking service by HDFC bank and the latest interest rates can be found HERE You can apply for HDFC FD here Period Amount Interest Rate (…
- 1 day ago, 21 Feb 12, 9:25pm -

ICICI Bank is one of the favorite bank for Non Resident Indians because of its good service, which is at par to foreign banks of which NRIs are used to. After the deregulation of NRE FD rates by Indian Government, ICICI is offering very compelling in…
- 1 day ago, 21 Feb 12, 9:23pm -

Since there is much hype about MCX Limited IPO, we decided to find out the intrinsic value of Multi Commodity Exchange Limited to help readers get the clearer picture about its valuation. But, before our own review, we collated the recommendations gi…
- 2 days ago, 20 Feb 12, 11:11pm -

AvaFx, a well-known forex broker is newly licensed by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) and also licensed in the European Union and Japan. AvaFx offers: multiple platforms including: MT4, AvaTrader, Mobile Trading and Mirror…
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- 13 days ago, 10 Feb 12, 5:38am -

FXCM improved their credit card funding procedure so for most credit cards, deposits will be instantly available in your FXCM trading account. I am not surprised this is a priority for FXCM and I am sure lots of clients will be pleased, with the abi…
- 14 days ago, 9 Feb 12, 6:56am -

Plimus along with Clickbank are probably the two largest affiliate networks out there, and they have been merchants for thousands of forex related products and services. As you all know, new forex related products are released on a daily basis; EA´…
- 14 days ago, 9 Feb 12, 6:22am -

In response to my post yesterday, Hey Brad; Where You Been?, Karim asks the following question,“Do you think Industrial Alliance (IAG) and Sunlife (SLF) are value traps at the beginning of their incessant failure or that they are potential good in…
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- 3 Nov 11, 10:00pm -

I’ve been spending a lot of my investing time recently helping friends and family set up various personal finance strategies focused on saving, investing and improving their financial situation.One key focus I’ve recommended in each instance is…
- 25 Sep 11, 8:30pm -

Once every month I sit down for an hour or two to review my portfolio holdings; to gauge relative value of each stock, recent trends, news, quarterly reports and position in the portfolio.Last week I did this and took note of one of the longest held…
- 9 Apr 11, 4:30pm -

I had pointed out in my last post that the markets had reached overbought levels. Now, there are two ways a market can work off overbought levels - (a) sharp correction or (b) low volume consolidation, which is exactly what we have seen the markets d…
- 29 days ago, 25 Jan 12, 1:54am -

Well, 2012 has been great for the bulls so far and it's time to turn to our trusty old McClellan Oscillator to see if the markets are overbought here. Below are the charts of NASDAQ and NYSE McClellan Oscillators with the overbought levels marked…
- 31 days ago, 23 Jan 12, 1:53am -

Here are a few stocks I like for next week. I have commented on the charts itself.Take care and good luck!
- 38 days ago, 15 Jan 12, 4:30pm -

Here are a few stocks that I like heading into next week Take care and good luck!
- 45 days ago, 9 Jan 12, 2:16am -

This Tuesday the 13th, and again on January 30th, the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors is offering free advice through the Jump-Start Your Retirement Plan Days-- on the 13th or 30th between 9am and 6pm Eastern, call 1-888-919-2345…
- 12 Jan 09, 4:56am -

For people who are unlikely to itemize deductions on their taxes every year, bunching your deductions into a single year is often a very effective strategy.   The general idea is that you try to combine as many tax-deductible expenses into a single…
- 30 Dec 08, 1:10am -

We all occasionally (or more than occasionally!) have those gift-giving situations we can't figure out how to handle-- do we give this person a gift or not? Often the biggest part of the awkwardness is not wanting the other person to feel obligated…
- 20 Dec 08, 8:32pm -

The holiday gifting season is upon us again... time to take a deep breath and figure out how to think outside the box to make your holidays cheaper, greener, and saner.I had a whole post on this last year-- Holiday Gifting: 14 Ways to Give More Meani…
- 12 Dec 08, 9:30pm -

New post titled Preauthorizations And Legal-eze: Why Health Insurers Have To Use Them at Colorado Health Insurance Insider[...] Starting in 2014, health insurance will be guaranteed issue and all of us will be required to have coverage. But until th…
- 7 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 7:58pm -

New post titled Too Much Paperwork at Colorado Health Insurance Insider[...] I don't know what the solution is here. On the one hand, we need regulation. We know that without it, there are way too many cracks into which all sorts of things can fall…
- 1 day ago, 21 Feb 12, 11:04pm -

New post titled New T.R. Reid Documentary Highlights Greatness In Our Healthcare System at Colorado Health Insurance Insider[...] Overutilization - driven by supply rather than demand - was another common theme in the program. Basically, that the mo…
- 5 days ago, 17 Feb 12, 10:26pm -

New post titled Health Wonk Review At The Healthcare Economist at Colorado Health Insurance Insider[...] One of the most interesting pieces in this edition comes from Avik Roy, writing at Forbes about the historical relationship between political con…
- 6 days ago, 16 Feb 12, 9:36pm -

While the champagne corks were probably popping in California last week after Broadcom Corp. (BRCM) completed its $3.7 billion acquisition of NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. (NETL), the party may have continued for one of NetLogic’s former top executiv…
- 11 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 3:52pm -

Forget Google Zeitgeist — if you want to know the real preoccupations of the age, take a look at executive employment contracts. They show clearly what’s on the mind of American captains of industry. That’s how we know, for example, that iPads…
- 1 day ago, 21 Feb 12, 3:52pm -

No one can accuse the directors at Waste Connections, Inc. (WCN) of acting rashly. Indeed, if the 8-K the company filed February 16 is indicative of how quickly the board makes its decisions, we’d wager that the speed of Ents, turtles, and glacie…
- 5 days ago, 17 Feb 12, 4:05pm -

DirecTV (DTV) recently came out with a line of moderately edgy ads that drew a definitive connection between wearing an eyepatch on a city bus and getting beaten up (or something — we’re not quite sure). We’d love to see what the company’s ma…
- 6 days ago, 16 Feb 12, 3:53pm -

Währungen werden bisher zentral verwaltet und herausgegeben. Zuständig dafür sind die Notenbanken, die es in ihrer Macht haben die Leitzinsen festzulegen und dafür zu Sorgen das mehr, oder weniger Geld sich im Umlauf befindet. Den Wert einer Wäh…
- 6 Jun 11, 8:02pm -

Nach mehr als einem Jahr nachdem Griechenland durch die Rettungspakete der EU gerettet schien steht nun der Schulden-GAU für Griechenland unmittelbar bevor. Nach einem Artikel von Spiegel Online scheinen die Griechen nun sogar einen Austritt aus der…
- 6 May 11, 5:07pm -

Im Grunde ist noch nicht viel passiert. Lediglich der Ausblick der Kreditwürdigkeit wurde von S&P heute auf negativ gesenkt. S&P spricht davon das bedeute die Wahrscheinlichkeit einer Herabstufung des AAA Rating der USA liege bei 33%. Dennoch es mar…
- 18 Apr 11, 9:18pm -

Marc Faber der Autor des "Gloom, Boom & Doom" Reports spricht in diesem Interview mit CNBC wieder einmal über seine Lieblingsthemen, Gold und die Botenbankpolitik der FED. Diese kritisiert er schon seit Jahren für ihre laxe Geldpolitik und dafür j…
- 8 Apr 11, 2:54pm -

submit_url = "http://blog.tonyjohnston.biz/?p=2821"; Do you know what a banker is? “A banker is someone who happily rents you an umbrella when the sky is clear but quickly demands it back again at the earliest threat of rain”. Laugh if you will a…
- 19 Jul 11, 1:31am -

submit_url = "http://blog.tonyjohnston.biz/?p=2793"; Thank you to all who entered our Art of marketing / Compass North Inc. draw contest. We are pleased to now declare the following companies our 2 draw contest winners after having reviewed all entri…
- 7 Mar 11, 2:44am -

submit_url = "http://blog.tonyjohnston.biz/?p=2741"; Good News! Something that I attended last year and found really great is coming again to Toronto. It’s the Art of Marketing Conference and it’s going to be held on Monday, March 7th, 2011 at th…
- 18 Feb 11, 7:26pm -

submit_url = "http://blog.tonyjohnston.biz/?p=2713"; As much as I may be a professional consultant, accountant, businessman and entrepreneur, before all that I was and still am first an economist. This is why I think about stock exchanges in their ec…
- 15 Feb 11, 9:01pm -

Everyone is so desperate to buy a child plan (example). The features of so-called children plan are bundled in a way that it looks magical, [...]
- 3 days ago, 20 Feb 12, 5:30am -

Today I want to show you how 2 fellow readers of this blog were in a fix when it came to their hard-earned money and [...]
- 7 days ago, 16 Feb 12, 4:30am -

There is a great confusion among investors on how PPF interest is calculated ? Just because a lot of investors don’t know this , they [...]
- 10 days ago, 13 Feb 12, 4:30am -

A lot of us do not have even an idea on how much money we have in our Employee Providend fund account (EPF) . So [...]
- 14 days ago, 9 Feb 12, 3:15am -

I was going through this excellent article on NRI investments in real Estate and how NRIs can benefit from the investments. Maybe all the NRI friends should read this article, thats why i am linking directly to this article.Please find it here...…
- 10 days ago, 13 Feb 12, 5:32am -

We have all heard a lot about P/E ratio, Lets see a video from Investopedia about the same...Many thanks to Investopedia....
- 25 days ago, 29 Jan 12, 2:08pm -

My company just send me the investment declaration form, this form is used to send in investment proofs and fill in the details a predefined format. I guess most of the working class has this kind of a form, in which you have to fill in most of the i…
- 28 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 9:34am -

Finally decided to invest in Infrastructure bonds, have been researching in them for 1 year now. Didn't know what to do earlier, and finally today decided to take the dip.Invested INR10000/- in IDFC Tranche 2 Long Term Infrastructure bonds. Just…
- 32 days ago, 22 Jan 12, 12:41pm -

In part I of this three-part series,we talked about how real estate investing is changing. In part 2, we discussed a key opportunity for implementing that change: land contracts. In part 3, the topic is passive investing.Once you’ve worked hard to…
- 30 Nov 10, 11:22pm -

In part I of this three-part series, we talked about how real estate investing is changing. In part 2, we discuss a key opportunity for implementing that change: land contracts. You don’t have to look far to find experts in the financial industry…
- 18 Nov 10, 12:38am -

There is a subtle transition underway in real estate investing these days. It involves a shift in the way people think about their real estate investment, a movement toward being more dispassionate, a movement toward being more quantitative than qual…
- 3 Nov 10, 7:02pm -

An apocryphal story: there was once a law in Kansas that if two trains running on parallel tracks met at a railroad crossing, neither could move until the other was gone.In light of the latest hiccup in the foreclosure crisis - the discovery that th…
- 22 Oct 10, 1:12am -