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• 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.

• Does Stock Price Depend Excessively on Impression Management? (Part 1) - Editor, 19 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Why should you care? Stock price should be proportional to earnings. You buy or hold stocks if business prospects appear bright. The latter could be something stock brokers and the media tell you: you may also be the clever type who goes against the general trend. However, what could this have to do with Impression Management?

• Does Stock Price Depend Excessively on Impression Management? (Part 2) - Editor, 19 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Does Stock Price Depend Excessively on Impression Management? (Part 1)

Track Records of Stock Analysts and Investment Advisors

What if you find business a bore? Does the stock market have space for folks who want superior returns on investments without spending all day on company and economic news? The trick lies in finding reliable advisers. Here is a test: go the archives section of your favorite web site, and find out what stock analysts said this time last year. Greenspan’s present clients made billions from sub prime because they knew about the gathering storm when this consultant of today was still Chair Person of the Federal Reserve. Federal Impression Management did not work with community banks however. They stayed away from sub prime, and have excellent business results for 2007 to show.

• Environmental Scanning for Stocks from the Business of Education (Part 1) - Editor, 14 February 2008 - No Comments yet

It is worth taking the time to understand the term. Everyone scans the environment, from a hungry eagle to a child pitcher on a playground mound. Some of us do it unconsciously, but spotting the most relevant opportunities and threats needs skill. What better way can there be than practicing with live examples? Please visit our earlier piece on this web site with the title “Perspective Environmental Scanning for Accurate Stock Price Prediction”. This article attempts to illustrate the method of Environmental Scanning through an example from the field of education.

• Environmental Scanning for Stocks from the Business of Education (Part 2) - Editor, 14 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Environmental Scanning for Stocks from the Business of Education (Part 1)

The Global Opportunity for Education Stocks

Look around campuses of the best colleges and universities. You are likely to find more ethnic minorities strolling around than on the streets outside. Students from countries such as India and China tend to get good grades. The outsourcing story also points us in the direction of education in emerging countries. There are huge demands to learn spoken English, our working methods, and social habits. The new economies also need scientists and technologists for their growth plans. The net result is an explosion in the demand for quality education.

• Perspective Environmental Scanning for Accurate Stock Price Prediction (Part 1) - Editor, 11 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Forecasting qualities and profits from stocks go hand-in-hand. The stock market mechanism depends largely on differing projections about the future outcomes of current business developments. We have published an article on this web site entitled “Stock Investment Tutorial from Sub-Prime Gainers”. This piece takes the earlier article forward, so that all of us can strive for the professional acumen of former regulators, present consultants, and their distinguished cronies. Though it does help speed up matters if you have buildings full of analysts at your command, classic business management techniques of environmental scanning do not have capital moats of entry barriers.

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