Archive | March, 2008

Building Your Investment Portfolio, Part 6

In Part 5, we reviewed the two major roadblocks to achieving one’s goals. In this article, we will analyze a typical article that investors have come to accept as gospel. The critic — no doubt with good intentions designed to set me straight — submitted two articles: An Easier Path to Real Returns The Benefits of [...]
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Building Your Investment Portfolio, Part 5

I had expected Part 4 to be the last of the series, but after it was published, two things happened to warrant more articles: A (presumably) well-meaning skeptic wrote to me and ended up giving me all sorts of grief about portfolio construction. I didn’t think it was possible for the world of investing is [...]
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Observations and Stocks for Wednesday

Ever since the Bear Sterns news hit the wires on Sunday, I have read blogs and email echoing the financial armageddon theme: The banks are cooked; the Fed is cooked. And there was Dr. Ron Paul telling it like it is. I hope you watch the video of his exchange yesterday with Chairman Bernanke. In fact, [...]
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Mad Money Stocks for Wednesday

The Booyah list is comprised of featured and game plan stocks mentioned by Jim Cramer on Mad Money. The stocks are listed in alphabetical order below. Click on the headers to sort by column.
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The Morning After Reality Check

I am so disappointed with Jimmy Rogers and the tinfoil hat gurus. Even though I understand that fear is a powerful marketing tool used to sell newsletters, books and canned food, their predatory practices strike me as being extremely opportunist and unethical in times like this. Their actions compel me to act as a ballast, [...]
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What’s the Story? AEM, VLO and VMC

We have been posting the winners of the Keynesian Beauty Contest daily for some time, a daily stock scan that incorporates price movement, range and liquidity. The scan is the first cut. As Teresa has said in the past, stock trading is also a seasonal activity: at the firm, they traded “story” stocks with [...]
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Observations and Stocks for Tuesday

Senator Chuck Schumer has never been the sharpest tool in the shed, but today he sounded like a Nobel laureate on the vanguard of modern economic thought [SEE VIDEO] compared to Jim “Investment Biker” Rogers [SEE VIDEO]. Has anyone told Mr. Rogers that his view is consensus opinion? Methinks there is mass hysteria [...]
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Mad Money Stocks for Tuesday

MRK, SGP and TUP were added today. The Booyah list is comprised of featured and game plan stocks mentioned by Jim Cramer on Mad Money. The stocks are listed in alphabetical order below. Click on the headers to sort by column.
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