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- Can We Outsource the Fed? - Editor, 5 March 2008 - No Comments yet
- Are You Part of The NYSE: PTR Stock Opportunity As Yet? - Editor, 4 March 2008 - No Comments yet
- Nirvana through Rebirth in the Stock Market after Foreclosure - Editor, 3 March 2008 - No Comments yet
- Rising Grain Prices Bond the US with China and Allies Alike - Editor, 29 February 2008 - 1 Comment
- How Australia Beats Alan Greenspan through Future Fund, and You Can Too - Editor, 28 February 2008 - No Comments yet
- Make Housing Stock Your Stock Market Hedge Fund - Editor, 27 February 2008 - 1 Comment
- What Does Cuba Hold for Your Stock Yield? - Editor, 26 February 2008 - No Comments yet
Imagine 40 million foreclosures being forgiven. That is what the Indian government has proposed to do in its latest budget. Poor farmers need not pay back outstanding loans. There are other measures on the anvil to help the country’s poor.
Freedom activists wear China bashing on their sleeves. Spielberg can afford this, but it does not pay in stock trading. Beijing and big business are in cahoots. Read about how their giant corporations stalk the stock market world at one of our sister sites: Does China Business Have a New Strategy and How Does That Affect You?
The housing market and stock have always competed for our savings. Real estate appreciation means just as much as owning a home. The number of homes a person has is an easy way to tell how rich he or she must be. However, there are times when stock can appreciate more than housing. 2008 is probably one such year.
There are no signs of aliens coming to destroy us, but even so there are scenes from the 1996 movie ‘Independence Day’ developing in real life. It started with successive years of drought in Australia, a major grain exporter. China has never had to bother about growing all its food needs, but sourcing grain on the world market gets tougher by the day.
They care for the environment, love sports, and have sent troops to Iraq. You may not be impressed with the apology to their native citizens, unless you are an Aleutian, but Australians are clearly near the top of our pile of allies.
Emotional reports of foreclosures and sub-prime crimes by wealthy executives have dominated stock market news for some time now. Could months of indignation have clouded our judgments of the whole housing situation?
Who knows when Fidel’s retirement will get the economy of Cuba moving again? Some stock market quarters have begun to buy everything with the word ‘Cuba’ in its name, but some of these stocks have more business in friendly Caribbean isles, rather than in and around Havana.
Recent Videos
- Video: Sales Slump; Marks & Spencer To Close 27 Stores; M&S General Merchandise Sales Down 8.9%, Food Sales Down 5.2% - Wednesday 7 January 2009, 7:35 am
- Video: Investment Strategy - Wednesday 7 January 2009, 7:11 am
- Video: Marks & Spencer's Dyson: Job Cut Costs About 10-20 Million Pounds; Food Improved On Previous Quarter; No Changes To Dividend Policy - Wednesday 7 January 2009, 7:05 am
- Video: Bond Market Outlook - Wednesday 7 January 2009, 6:44 am
- Video: Mark & Spencer May Say Sales In U.K. Fell; The Times: Marks & Spencer To Announce 1,000 Job Cuts; Tesco Price Cut - Wednesday 7 January 2009, 6:36 am
Recent Articles
- Fed to Take Further Steps to Rescue Sinking Housing Markets - Editor, Friday 5 December 2008
- Markets Take a Tumble as NBER Confirms U.S. in Recession - Editor, Tuesday 2 December 2008
- Investors View Market Rally with Cautious Optimism - Editor, Thursday 27 November 2008
- U.S. Markets in Anticipation of Obama-Administration Economic Team Announcement - Editor, Monday 24 November 2008
- Fannie Mae Faces Possible De-Listing From NYSE - Editor, Wednesday 19 November 2008
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