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  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News
    Difficult markets and times have provided Comrade Obama a unique window to enter through this perfect storm.

    In 2009 and 2010, the real test of his message of Hope, Charisma and Oratory meet the reality of Economics, Mathematics and History.

    Barack Hussein Obama swims “naked” and the American Constitutional election process will allow us to ONCE AGAIN ‘correct course’ as we did after the collapse of the conservatives with Carter’s 1976 election from which the 1980 election of RONALD REAGAN was born. .and the 1992 election of Clinton from which the 1994 watershed election of the Conservative Congress of 1994 was born for a brief 4 year triumph from 1995-98.

    I expect that the Congressional elections of 2010 and 2012 will provide for correction to this ‘vote of hope, charisma & empty oratory’ for which 52.5% of Americans hang their false hope. The Presidential election of 2012 awaits Comrade Obama 48 months from yesterday.

    Barack Hussein Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Dodd & Barney Frank HAVE NOT REPEALED the realities of ECONOMICS, MATHEMATICS and HISTORY.

    They SWIM NAKED in ROUGH WATERS and HISTORY will not take long to FLUSH THEM OUT.

    Keep the faith in the American Experiment.
    Nov 05 08:16 am |Rating: +3 -2 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Buffett and the Limits to 'Awaiting Better Times'
    Well written.

    MISSION: Update your personal Balance Sheet, Income Statement & Investment Policy (Objectives, Time Horizons, Liquidity needs, Risk & Return Profile, Special Circumstances) to arrive at your Target Asset Allocation (Cash/Fixed Income/Equities).

    RESULTING ACTION: Then RE-Balance to your Target Allocation in a disciplined method as the Writer suggests.

    RESULT: Mindful Homework, Discipline & Definition PREVAILS OVER Emotion (Fear, Greed, Paralysis).
    Oct 18 07:07 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Sarah Palin: Wall Street's Candidate
    7 years since 9/11/01 and not one foreign attack on American soil.

    The 2003 Tax Act reduced Ordinary Tax Rates on worker's incomes and reduced the Long-Term Cap Gains Tax Rate from 20% to 15% + introduced a 15% Maximum 'Qualified Dividends' Tax Rate:

    RESULT: Fed Tax Revenues collected INCREASED 14% in 2004, 12% in 2005, 9% in 2006 and 10% in 2007.

    President Jack Kennedy, the last economically literate Democratic President also DEFENDED the NATION and REDUCED TAX RATES on Workers and Savers.

    President Bush may be a horrific communicator, 3 years too long in delivering the successes of the troop surge & not vetoing the former Republican spending excesses, . . but on the BIG PICTURE Presidential Duties to DEFEND the NATION, and promote LIBERTY and our OPPORTUNITY to define and solve 'our own family problems', he gets an "A".

    Big Government centric Obama/Biden with a Reid/Pelosi Congress would be 'piling on' to America's woes.

    McCain/Palin is the only antidote to balance a Socialist Congress & Obama/Biden that would 'forfeit' the precious blood and treasure expended and increase tax rates on American workers and savers forcing 'increased dependency' on Government Gone Wild !
    Sep 04 09:57 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Presidential Election: No Help for the Markets
    Not voting or waiving your voting rights is used by 'idealists' in every election. The result of voting 'Canada 08' or 'not voting' is inertia and anarchy. Please hold your nose and vote for the less 'imperfect' candidate.

    From your comments, that appears to be McCain, unless you prefer by 'not voting' to allow others to 'vote in' "a socialist candidate borne out of the muck of Chicago-style politics, sponsored by 1960s radicals and corrupt businessmen who's only proven skill is running great campaigns and giving superb speeches, with his closest adviser having a giant chip on her shoulder for most of her adult life".

    "Democracry is the worst form of government, except for all the other forms of government".
    Sep 02 09:27 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Sequoia Fund Reopens After 26 Years: A Look Inside
    Archman82011: Capital Research & Management Co (American Funds) has a 75 year demonstrated history of providing their fund investors with consistently superior long-term investment results.

    You are correct that most fund managers do not 'outperform' comparable 'passive indexes'. But this is clearly not the case for America's largest and most successful long-term fund manager, American Funds.

    By the way, American Funds "advertising budget is zero", expenses are very low, global research and management capabilties are unparalled, and their multiple portfolio coundslor system has been the unique key to providing such outstanding long-term investment returns for their 'active portfolios'. Low turnover is also key with a 3.5 year average holding period.

    See americanfunds.com before you 'throw the babies out with the bath water'.
    Aug 19 09:18 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • The Downside of Having International Exposure
    Currencies and economies do 'correct' as markets work their 'invisible hand'. This article conveys this process quite well.

    US population is 4.5% of the world population. The US produces 28% of world GDP. US Stock Market Capitalization is 40% of world stock market capitalization.

    Yes the world will grow faster, and in Chindia's case it will grow much faster than the disproportinately larger-scaled US economy and stock market.

    "notsosmart"... Be careful to not miss understanding these perspectives before dismissing the US or forecasting its future demise.
    Aug 07 08:34 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Are American Companies Now Up For Grabs?
    In 1990 Japan and Persian Gulf states awash with US Dollars invested heavily into US Markets buying American icons like Pebble Beach, Kiawah Island, Rockefeller Center & the Seattle Mariners, etc.

    Free Markets will again allow our excessed and failures to be cleansed and currency flows and market medicine will prevail allow for the next American rebirth.

    Hopefully, our Socialist Congress or comrade Obama will allow the proven tonics of the correcting and free markets to prevail this time.
    Jul 14 08:42 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Freeport McMoran: With Copper Prices Rising, It's Still a Buy
    BxCap provided solid homework and real valuation analysis versus the technician 'astrologers' who provided opinions 'as if' they 'know' the future chart for FCX.

    No technicians have succeeded in 'forecasting' their way into the Forbes 400. Only hard working fundamentalists build and grow real businesses.

    Thank you BxCap for shining the light on these voodoo technicians.
    Jul 06 07:42 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Two Moves to Make as the Fed Inflates the Commodities Bubble
    RIO for Iron Ore + FCX for Copper
    Jul 02 07:36 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Bill Gross To 'President' Obama: Double The Deficit
    Bill Gross has fallien back to failed Keynsian economics. Kevin M HAS LEARNED what sage Bill Gross' liberal political leaning has forgotton: Free Markets solve problems and deliver goods far better than Big Government.

    Gross apparently listens to CNN, CNBC, CBS, NBC and ABC who have already 'annointed' Obama President.

    Maybe an occassional FOX watch showing both sides, God forbid, might be adviseable for Big Government, failed Keynsian Bill Gross !
    Jul 01 10:34 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Robbins & Myers Up 20% on Surprise Earnings
    Robbins & Myers Cost Basis from Feb 1988 is $1.06/share - up 47 times to $49.87/share June 30, 2008 - - lots of bumps over the past two decades.

    So much for hedge funds and traders - - 'select long-term investments' can provide great reward at lower cost and much less tax liability.
    Jul 01 09:30 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Cisco: Internet Infrastructure King Still Reigns
    Very well done perspective on CSCO - a core technology holding at an attractive valuation for long-term growth of capital !
    Jun 30 08:09 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Risky Waters, But Opportune Waves
    From 40,000 feet, hare 'traders' rarely outperform tortoise 'portfolio managers' over a series of longer-term periods who exercise the disciplines of acquiring quality companies at attractive valuations as they present themselves during sell-offs in the market, in industries or in specific companies.

    Few 'traders' consistently produce low to mid-double digit portfolio returns over a series of "rolling" 10-year periods. Disciplined, experienced 'investors' exercising a strong discipline, approach and long-term view ('the select wise tortoises') have enjoyed such success.

    The main perspectives of this article are well taken by this 'longer-term' investor. My experience and approach is to not be so 'wise' as the impatient 'traders', from which very few enjoy 10-15% longer-term returns 'over a series of meaningful 10-year periods'.
    Jun 29 07:10 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Financial Fears Sweeping the Globe
    Invest, Diversify, and be Patient. A globally diversified portfolio with appropriate liquidity to endure downturns and buy as valuations present themselves should be a savers and investors focus.

    Attempting to Predict Market Index downturns and upturns with precision in amounts and timing is a game for those who continually lift their oars out and in the water and never get very far.

    Forget spending valuable time and effort attempting to predict the unpredictable.

    Exercise a proven Process and Approach while doing your homework on companies/industries/t... to sustain your portfolio through the unpredictable yet inevitable market turns.

    Time "IN-vested" prevails over "Timing Markets" given that you get and stay invested in a high quality diversified portfolio of global equities while maintaining adequate liquid reserves to endure downturns and provide for cash to "invest" when the bear raises its unpredictable head offering great opportunities for long-term investors.
    Jun 21 09:12 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Week in Review: Dollar's Biggest Advance Vs. Euro in 3 Years
    Despite human nature wishing it could intervene for its own short-term convenience, free markets have best brought supply and demand into equilibrium through the pricing mechanism.

    Central bankers and politicians should re-learn their Economics and History lessons. Their interferences, misallocations and excessive regulation have historically "aggravated" the problems they yearn to fix quickly.

    Reagan's courageous re-appointment of Paul Volcker at the Federal Reserve in 1983 and his appointment of Greenspan in 1987 just prior to the October 1987 market decline are wonderful examples of enlightened and disciplined political appointments serving the nation's "long-term" interest at the political expense of "immediate criticism" from short-term and interventionist pundits.

    If only Senator Obama could heed and learn from such lessons should he attain the main lever of political appointment power. Obama's proposals to nearly double the capital gains tax rate, eliminate qualified dividend tax rates, and repeal the 2003 reduction of tax rates on ordinary incomes will actually "harm" employment, incomes and savings at the very time of a slowing economy.
    Unfortunately Obama's policy proposals are what one would expect from his resume of accomplished 'redistribution of incomes', 'no private sector work experience', 'no savings experience' and 'never governing any city or state'.

    May SUBSTANCE prevail over FORM and RHETORIC this November.
    Jun 14 11:42 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article

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