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    Subprime crisis= no crisis

    yeah, go figure. no one gave me any money after dot.com hit my portfolio, and no one subsidized my home for me. in fact, all i aver seem to get are tax bills in the hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. heck, just what my business pays the state every year in unemployment and workers...
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    Stagflation in 2007?

    y'know, I thought 2% was steep as well. OTOH, as of yesterday I am up some 7% so if I end the year at double that somehow, I really am not gonna be sad about 2%. If I ended at no better than where I am now, yeah, I would not like 2% at all. realistically, the value is in their stock...
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    Permit me to open a can of worms...

    been thru the TS site, and it certainly looks like it would fit my needs except for one thing... I need more time than to start trading immediately. thus 30 days is too short, and $100/mo seems steep to not be trading. Then again at Scwab, I have probably traded several thousand shares in...
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    Subprime crisis= no crisis

    Housing alone will nto sink the economy, but I have some concern about the drop in MEW's*. That was a big lifeblood of money for the economy in a time when inflation adjusted wages were declining, and housing costs were eating up more and more real income. with the declines in home prices in...
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    Stagflation in 2007?

    this is not an endorsement or anything like, but I dropped some dollars with Euro Pacific (europac.net) and specified they invest in overseas dividend producing stocks. in the last roughly 40 days, I am up roughly 5.5% on this protfolio. Euro Pacific has a 2% management fee, fyi.
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    The Fed can't cut

    the fed is presently stuck between a rock, a hard place, and a cliff. the rock is fighting inflation the hard place is rescuing housing before it severly damages the economy the cliff is that a premature drop in rates (heck, probably any drop in rates) will ensure and even harder drop...
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    Peak Oil theory about to bust?

    oil is a limited resource like anything else. we just do not know the limit yet. OTOH, when you have companies sinking $125+ million deep sea exploratory wells, you gotta stop and thing why. If there were easier oil to get (and by that I also include regulatory hurdles like drilling off the...
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    Permit me to open a can of worms...

    First off, let me say that I am new here, so please indulge me a bit. Second, let me add that I have been thru the software reviews already, and seemed to find so many conflicting opinions at times, that I thought I would try this means for help... (But first the background) I have been...
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