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"Stocks Sink on Black Monday Anniversary- AP" Coincidentally, Oct 19th, 2006 Dow hits all time high and closes above 12,000 for first time. Oops wrong anniversary. Will next Monday be a down day because its the 100th anniversary of the Panic of 1907 ? :D

One last sale before xmas rally?

Not sure about using motley fool's message boards, but the articles are complete garbage designed to trick people into clicking their links.

Exactly. The terms 'free education' and 'free healthcare' should be banned; bc they do not exist and are misleading to the avg idiot who votes for politicians

He's looking for an excuse to flip out again

Is anyone on this board?

Usually synthetic oil doesn't need to be changed because of the mileage, but bc of the crap that leaches into it - which depends more on the engine/driving habits. If you dont keep cars very long it probably wont matter

So instead of wasting precious oil on oil changes, they can now use it to fuel large SUVs to travel up and down America, for the purpose of seeing how much oil we can save...

The 3month/3k used to be more accurate years ago before synthetics and better engines. IF you drive around a city like ny, you'll probably be changing the oil before 3,000 miles. But yes 3k is too conservative for most drivers.

Meanwhile, you have these moron presidential candidates talking about 'free healthcare' (by raising taxes). So really the people who don't need the free healthcare will be screwed paying the bill, as usual.

Engineers/Comp Sci generally have the advantage here.

The trick is that you have to sell your crap to crapholders, before the crapholder realizes it is crap.

Some are slower learners than others, im sure Bernanke's latest will be shocking to some.

Bernanke and Greenspan seem to take turns announcing what everyone figured out months ago.

This is true, but financial statement analysis will only help a long term investor. In the meantime you could have dead money for years. Also, because of the games companies play, financial statement analysis can often be borderline useless for investing.

Does knowing too much about accounting hurt your trading? Most accountants I know are well below average investors.

Good points, PhD types generally have trouble being practical, and know-it-alls have trouble with cockiness; two traits that the market doesn't reward.

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