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• The Grey Stock Market Driver (Part 1) - Editor, 24 January 2008 - No Comments yet

Stock market sentiment is notorious for being irrational, but there could be methods to the madness! You have to be a geologist or involved in making batteries, if you are to be excited by looking at a dull, grey piece of cobalt. Most people who would never bother to look beyond the headlines of copper and zinc mines, or of developments in places such as the Congo, have no idea how much their precious stocks are affected by cobalt reserves. Can you live without cell phones again? Do you agree that cars with hybrid engines are the way to go? Your financial planning could be more dependant on cobalt than you know!

• The Grey Stock Market Driver (Part 2) - Editor, 24 January 2008 - No Comments yet

The Grey Stock Market Driver (Part 1)

Mining and Technology Links for Stock Picks

Cobalt deserves a dispassionate look when it comes to financial planning. Your portfolio could have entirely new stocks once you consider the tentacles of this metallic octopus on your financial planning. You can use the cobalt story to discover top stock picks, provided you understand the drivers of this matrix. Manganese nodules under the sea hold enough cobalt to offset the potential effects of stocks with our enemies. The problem is that most of these reserves lie in the Pacific outside the territorial waters of any country. Therefore, you need to back stocks of companies that can get Washington to sort out the international treaty issues of seabed mining.

• The 2008 Presidential Election and Your Financial Planning (Part 1) - Editor, 23 January 2008 - No Comments yet

Democracy is not a once-in-four-years affair, but a US Presidential election takes domestic and global issues more seriously than usual. The recent move towards campaigning interactively through the Internet has reinforced the notion that a huge pile of matters come to the fore every time it is your turn to vote. One candidate may be better at managing war, while another has a distinct strength on a more pedestrian issue. How do you approach the inevitable trade-off? This article suggests that your financial planning interests could be the most appropriate and pressing parameter to bear in mind.

• The 2008 Presidential Election and Your Financial Planning (Part 2) - Editor, 23 January 2008 - No Comments yet

The 2008 Presidential Election and Your Financial Planning (Part 1)

International Ramifications of Financial Planning

Global trade with national currencies is a mug’s game. Guess who broke the Bretton-Woods system? Even Nixon votaries will agree that the dollar reserves with Middle East Sheikhs and with Beijing threaten the American way of life nearly as much as terrorism. The World Trade Organization persists with endless confabulation, while the dollar slips from its vantage position by the day. The person who takes the White House in the 2008 election must commit to put US trade balances in order. The appreciation of the Euro is a matter of concern on this side of the Atlantic, but the priority should be to control influences on our financial planning from quarters inimical to our form of governance.

• Invaluable Stock Holding Rights (Part 1) - Editor, 22 January 2008 - No Comments yet

Skilled and experienced professionals do not use scare cash to repurchase stocks! The motives for delisting must reside in the belief that stocks have values that executives and owners wish to hide from others. Never believe the baloney that someone you neither love not perhaps even know, will buy stocks from you in order to make losses!

• Invaluable Stock Holding Rights (Part 2) - Editor, 22 January 2008 - No Comments yet

Invaluable Stock Holding Rights (Part 1)

It is never easy to glean the individual and true opinions of regulators, but we can gain some glimpses by studying their scholarly presentations at selected events. The best in the business are concerned about the negative effects of delisting, and these worries are hardly limited to getting fair compensation in the exit stock price! A review of committees that have deliberated on the delisting phenomenon will show that they are simply get-togethers of big business and government bureaucrats. Even the most innocuous measures to protect stock investors with minority holdings are met with dissenting expressions by representatives of industries.

• Farming as a Path to Financial Planning (Part 1) - Editor, 21 January 2008 - No Comments yet

The days of living exclusively off pensions are numbered. Longevity trends, rising social security costs, and the specter of inflation, combine to mean that retirement in the conventional sense of the term is likely to be progressively pushed beyond 65, rather than being brought forward. Stock investment is a successful and challenging form of financial planning, but many people would enjoy making livings from farming activities. These two lines of revenue generation need no longer be mutually exclusive, given the facilities of the Internet and online stock trading. Economies moved away from agriculture to industries and services during the past 200 years, but it appears that growing crops and rearing animals have acquired new values of late.

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