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• Which Stock Should You Sell Short Now? - Editor, 25 February 2008 - No Comments yet

People, who have profited most from sub-prime, sell credit card and auto loan stocks short now. Look around you, and see how many folks you know who are knee deep or worse in debts that they cannot afford. Bankruptcy is not the stigma it used to be. Outgoing and incoming Presidents will be tempted to protect innocents from loan repayment burdens. Short all stocks that you can rent from the Consumer Financial Services sub-category of the financial sector.

• The Small Business Route to Better Financial Planning (Part 1) - Editor, 23 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Please take a look at our earlier piece entitled “Can a “Made in USA" Financial Planning Strategy Save Us from Recession” The 2008 Economic Stimulus Package makes serious attempts to get small business going. That is the inspiration for this piece. You could be in a salaried job, have a small enterprise going already, or simply be on the look-out for extra cash: here is a forum which you can use.

• The Small Business Route to Better Financial Planning (Part 2) - Editor, 23 February 2008 - No Comments yet

The Small Business Route to Better Financial Planning (Part 1)

Tax Incentives to Stimulate Small Business Investment (continued)

The other fruit on the Economic Stimulus Package tree that you must pluck is the extra $125 thousand of equipment investment you can write-off in 2008. You do not have to go all the way to the ceiling, but what an opportunity this is to ramp up your small business! There are any numbers of door-step services in your neighborhood that are either scarce or provided by illegal immigrants. Now is the time for you to get the equipment that can take your hobby, skill, or strength to a new commercial level. Cooking is one favorite: Brooklyn Cheesecake sold all its baking equipment in 2006. This company from Fairfield, NJ now licenses its trade-marks. Is selling confectionery under the “The Healthy Bakery” label exciting, or what? Who knows-perhaps you can register an even better name! Converting a part of your home in to an office, setting up your own fuel-cell electricity generator, starting an organic farm, and starting a video-conferencing center, are just random samples of the innumerable new cash generating investments in equipment that you can choose.

• Templates for an Energy Revolution on the Stock Market (Part 1) - Editor, 22 February 2008 - No Comments yet

The stock market is inseparable from international politics. Even communists acknowledge the stock exchange reality of modern life. Most US stocks can be owned by foreigners. Washington encourages American investments abroad. Opinions are divided on links between Iraq and our unquenchable thirst for oil. However, there is no doubt that Anti-American interest in Venezuela uses oil trade as a weapon against us. The Russians do the same thing with heating gas for some former units of the Soviet Union. The strategic oil reserve of Alaska is a prime source of US military strength. Energy is a potent stock with over one thousand world listings from coal, oil, gas, and alternative energy enterprises.

• Templates for an Energy Revolution on the Stock Market (Part 2) - Editor, 22 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Templates for an Energy Revolution on the Stock Market (Part 1)

Clean Energy Stocks

The new Australian Prime Minister has endorsed the Kyoto Protocol, and a 2009 US President may also move decisively in the direction of clean energy. Green business becomes more popular by the month. The alternative energy area is so full of half-baked business ideas that some observers predict it to be a future bubble that will burst like sub prime. However, there are stocks available for investors who want places in alternative energy without undue capital risks.

• People Power and Stock Performance (Part 1) - Editor, 21 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Do not choose to move to Somerville in Texas. The town has a 60% higher cancer and birth defect rate than any other place in the United States. It makes no sense to hold on to stocks of the rail road which burns toxic materials in this area, because town folks have taken the company to court. It is even more significant, from a stock investment perspective, that the public has approached Warren Buffet. He owns most of the railroad stock. The town folk expect him to provide relief from the poisons this company releases in to the town air. Communities, especially Aleutians and farm labor, have lived with pollution for decades, so the Somerville movement seems to be new.

• People Power and Stock Performance (Part 2) - Editor, 21 February 2008 - No Comments yet

People Power and Stock Performance (Part 1)

Let us sound a note of caution. Every stock market is full of investment opportunities that are ‘greener than thou’. They promise electricity from waste, zero pollution, and even ageless living! Many of these stocks represent enormous risks in terms of retirement financial planning. Some extreme activists are willing to forsake social security in order to protect the environment, but why not copy Al Gore and make big bucks out of the movement as well? Do not fall for every alternative stock that meets your eye. How can you know which green business stocks will make money? Here are some leads to give your thinking cells a shove:

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