If there are so many "astute" traders on this board, then why aren't they challenging the myth of globalization? Gee, anyone who actually trades...
The article gives hope that the middle class is beginning to connect the dots: globalization cannot explain stagnant wages and rising profits....
Good call, super-ego. Nice rally today. The weekly chart of the SP500 is solidly bullish, with a very sustainable slow grind upward. Note how...
Not taking sides in this one ... but, factually, you have to give GM credit for a good showing in the 2005 JD Power reliability survey. *...
Maybe another angle to your question is, "What stocks have a high degree of exposure to the Southeast region?" Try...
IMHO if you're trying to interpret what's going with volume inside of a single bar or candle, then you need to drop down to a chart with a shorter...
Student - for bonds with coupons I'm still seeing a haircut of 35% or so. You can also do a 'clean' comparison by looking at price and coupon. For...
lilboy716: I think your post about gas prices raises an interesting question about the real estate bubble. Will the price of gas be a catalyst for...
I guess I never understood the appeal of muni bonds. The yield is always discounted by an amount more or less equal to the top federal tax rate....
You can trade price alone, but price alone may mislead you. Consider: day 1, up 0.50, vol 20,000 day 2, down 0.75, vol 200,000 day 3, up...
"The Bell Has Tolled" More Sacramento R.E. Softness excerpts (c) Sacramento Bee Region's home sales signal softer market 'For Sale'...
True for equities but not necessarily for real estate. In equities markets go up when bears call a top because bears provide fuel via short...
You mean the Fed Model. Currently the S&P 500 at 1,231 has a PE ratio of 20.4. This implies a 30yr T-bill of 4.9%. The actual 30yr T-bill yield is...
Today the 3-year Treasury note was auctioned for 4.2% annual yield. That's not a bad rate of return for a risk-free investment (assuming held to...
According to the 2005 SSA Annual Report of the Trustees, the OASDI portion of the SS Trust Fund: revenues +657 bil benefits paid -501 bil...
I believe one of the major shortcomings of Social Security is that the trust funds are not actively invested. The world's best pension system,...
A whole mechanical trading system has been built around this concept of a price's deviation from it's moving average. It's called "x dev":...
The Chinese buy out IBM's personal computer unit, and now the Chinese want to buy an American energy company that extracts oil and gas from U.S....
Sacramento county, California: real estate owners heading for the exits? [img]
Why is the interest on treasuries taxable? When the government issues a bond, it is borrowing money from the public to finance the public's...
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