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    • Thu Nov 20th 10:39 AM | Rating: +1 -1
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      GM Could Benefit from Bankruptcy
      The GM shareholders, for all practical purposes, have already lost their stake in the company. A bailout now is for the unions. What are the unions willing to give in return? Reorganization will benefit the country in the long run after the hard changes are made and they must be made or we are throwing our bailout funds away.

      Sadly, the US auto industry has been arrogant and short sighted, both management and unions. They continue to offer inappropriate products for too much money, and sell at a loss. Face it, Honda and Toyota have done a better job and have saved American car buyers tons of money and aggravation. For years we have purchased new vehicles because we wanted one, not because we needed one. With this economic crunch it is just too easy to hang on to the old car for a few more years. This is hurting Honda and Toyota as well. The unsold cars are piling up at the ports.
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    • Mon Nov 17th 10:38 AM | Rating: +1 0
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      Is Negative Dividend News Positive for the Stock Price?
      I own DSX and while I am disappointed with the dividend cut, I am pleased with the buy back and the conservative management decision to build cash for further investment in distressed assets. Management is alert to opportunities and is not increasing debt. Both moves portend larger dividends in the future when markets recover.

      Lets face it, if ships stop carrying grain, coal, and ore we have bigger problems in this world than dividends.
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    • Mon Nov 10th 13:50 PM | Rating: 0 -1
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      As Russia Tests the Waters, Oil and Gas Showdown Looms
      Removing the missiles from Poland is a no brainer, so one has to wonder why Putin did not just wait for this to happen. I figure he gets an easy opportunity to look tough by demanding something that might have happened anyway. And he gets to increase tensions with The West which will ultimately move the price of oil higher. Low hanging fruit.

      Sadly Putin has joined with Chavez and Ahmadinijad in playing international politics for every petrodollar it is worth. Hopefully Mr Obama will not take the bait. We need a return to previous efforts towards nuclear disarmament and missile reduction, something the Bush administration did much to undermine.
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    • Mon Nov 3rd 15:05 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Shallowest Generation
      Who said it 200 years ago?
      getting and spending we lay waste our powers,
      little in nature we see as ours.
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    • Mon Nov 3rd 01:37 AM | Rating: +1 0
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      Where Have All the Peak Oil Believers Gone?
      We have a narrow window of opportunity, historically speaking, to make the transition from fossil fuels to renewables. We received our wake up call with the recent price spikes in oil and now that the dust has settled for a time some are already denying what we all know is coming. We must seize this opportunity while we still have the capital generated by found resources to enable the shift to energy derived from ingenuity. The oil and NG are, in effect, the fuel to take us to the next level of sustainable and renewable energy. Future generations will be astounded that we actually burned such useful stuff as oil.
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    • Sat Nov 1st 12:21 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      If You Think Oil Will Recover, Consider Atlas Pipeline
      Thank you for the information. Could you also unravel the confusing ownership structure of APL and AHD?
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    • Thu Oct 30th 13:51 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Chesapeake Energy: Marcellus Shale JV in Question
      I second John Egan's sentiment.
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    • Sat Oct 25th 12:55 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Another Bloodbath?
      I would argue that if you have money, then money is not worth less, it is worth more. We are in a period of deflation. Take housing as an example. A house that earlier this year took $400,000 to buy now takes less than $300,000. This is good news for you if you want to buy a house. If you own a house free and clear the real estate funny money equation has not changed because although you can sell your house for less than last year, you can also buy another comparable one for less as well. If you owe the bank and you bought at the high then you and/or the bank are in trouble. In many cases it is the bank that is taking the loss rather than the homeowner since their recent lending practices bordered on the irrational. This government is doing all it can to inflate money and this ultimately will make it worth less, unless it doesn't work. For now this deflation offers untold opportunities for those folks with courage and cash as traders de-leverage.

      What to do? I suggest investors start putting their dream list together. For me it is well managed companies with a history of solid earnings who pay substantial dividends. Watch and wait and act when your gut and intelligence tells you it is time. When to buy? When they stop going down.
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    • Tue Oct 7th 13:39 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Cash Position Best for Apple Investor
      I second mollytjm.
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    • Tue Oct 7th 13:31 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Did iPhone Sales Pass 10M Already?
      The markets perception of value relative to a stocks price is not the same thing as the underlying worth of any particular company. When these two are out of sync there is opportunity in both directions. Since AAPL does not chose to share their cash hoard with shareholders there is no disincentive to trading. Why are so many arguing with the market. If you are holding or buying for the long term quit complaining, or add to your positions when you think the crowd has it wrong. If you are trading and can profit from it, good luck. Right now cash is more desirable than stocks so the prices are falling. Good for us. It takes less cash to buy the same good companies.
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    • Fri Oct 3rd 11:50 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Biden-Palin Panderfest
      John McCain got his money's worth last night with Sarah Palin's performance. She memorized her lines, delivered them with conviction, and offered the girlie winks and smiles people have come to appreciate. But to paraphrase Gertrude Stein, "there was no there there." Will the real Sarah Palin please stand up. Like Al Gore in 2000, she is afraid to be herself and this ultimately is a losing strategy.

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    • Fri Oct 3rd 10:41 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      7 Rules For Investing During the Fourth Quarter
      As for your jail suggestion why not start at the top?
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    • Wed Oct 1st 14:57 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Starbucks Gets Re-Caffeinated - Barron's
      @Bullish Banker, fyi coffee at Starbucks is $1.35+/- not $5.00. Will SBUX rise again? Who knows but McDonalds is not their competition.
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    • Wed Oct 1st 13:44 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Topsoil Crisis: Dirt Isn't Cheap Anymore
      @Dan S1, welcome to the planet Earth. Other peoples problems are your problem, like it or not. We are interconnected and you can't just enjoy the benefits of other peoples success without sharing in the obligations toward the less fortunate. Someone once said "For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more."

      I agree that population expansion must be curtailed for the long term survival of our planet. In the mean time, free universal education has proven to limit population growth not encourage it. "Socialist" Europe has a declining native population.
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    • Wed Oct 1st 13:27 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Topsoil Crisis: Dirt Isn't Cheap Anymore
      Topsoil may have been more important to American economic expansion than oil.

      American corn-centric farming has been mining topsoil for generations and in the process has been flushing this precious resource down the Mississippi to everyone's detriment. What hasn't been flushed has been rendered into a largely dead substance useful only for holding agricultural chemicals.

      We need to preserve and build our topsoil and ensure that it is alive and healthy again. The growing organic movement promotes this trend. Our very lives depend on it.
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