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Superbowl Prediction Folly
Would you lend money to Portugal?
Eye of the Housing Hurricane
A Look Into Our Fiscal Future
Inflation: It's a Good Thing
Ouch! Your Lack of Confidence Really Hurts
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Another Sign of China's Collapse
Are All-Cash Home Sales Good or Bad?
The Sure Double Dip
Chugging Ahead or Are We?
Spiraling Around in Circles
Pension Canaries in the Coal Mine
Risk and Reward Biotech Style
Basically, It's Over...Or Is It?
The Trend in Jobs isn't Our Friend
Ouch! Your Lack of Confidence Really Hurts
Another Iceberg in the Foggy Distance
The Impact of Kicking the Fiscal Can Down the Road
Could China Collapse?
3 Ways To Relieve Financial Pressure
Eye of the Housing Hurricane
Greek Tragedy Coming to a Theatre Near You
Bill Gates is still learning. R U?
Greenspan's Right
Superbowl Prediction Folly
A Look Into Our Fiscal Future
Are More or Less People Unemployed?
Would you lend money to Portugal?
Where Are The Jobs At?
November Unemployment Statistics Analyzed
Unemployment Q&A
Fed Meeting Press Release Changes for November 2009
Yelling in a Crowded Theater
How to do your own FOMC meeting analysis
Misleading Media
Best Advice I Ever Got
Making the Big Celebrity Bucks
Brand Names Ride Out Recession
Inflation: It's a Good Thing
Top Story on The Financial Edge
Natural Born Trader
Great Expectations
How Miserable Are We?
Got Your Attention Yet?
Ethical Emulsion
Are We Nuts?
There’s a Reason He’s Called King
Fannie and Freddie get folded into the government. It’s about time.
Signs of the Times
Just Scratching the Surface
What Will the Fed Do?
Buffett’s Beloved Brands
My Beloved’s Birthday
Crying for Argentina
I Agree
Numbers Should Add Up, Shouldn’t They?
Today’s My Birthday
Citi is Asking Who for Help?
Why Buy a Newspaper?
Looking Around Inside
Gross and Greenspan’s Long Term View
And You Wonder Why We Have Problems
Gold Near 28 Year High - Can that be Good?
The Market is Bored
What a deal for GM!
Is it Too Early To Get Back Into Housing?
The Risk is Shifting
The Dollar is “Loonie”
Beijing Freezes Prices
Can You Say Moral Hazard?
Bernanke Makes Stock Market Happy
Greenspan is Everywhere
Taking the Guess Work Out of the Upcoming Fed Meeting
Oil at All Time Highs & Dollar at All Time Lows
A Great Idea for Making Twice the Money…or is it?
Will We Ever See a New Pension Fund?
So What’s the Problem?
Signing the Front of the Check
Prime Time
No More Loans, No More Profits, No More Fun
Shearing Sheep
British Banks Alarmed over Debt
Why Not Regulate Hedge Funds?
Paying off the National Credit Card
Can We All Get on the Same Page Here?
It’s a Wild, Wild Market but What Does That Mean?
Recent Rise in Bond Yeilds
The Recent Rise in Bond Yields
The Nail in the Coffin
“Owned” by China
The 70’s and Today
Will Japan Recover This Time for Real?
The Real Fun Begins
Does the Fed Matter? Well, “if”…
Housing, Low Rates, and tight credit.
Government Borrowing Can Continue But At What Cost?
Fed dilemma
Housing … Again
Funding of Social Security and Medicare
Value and Context
Shocker! study shows couples disagree about money
Housing and the pro’s
Ride Sallie Ride
If you cut 17,000 jobs, shouldn’t the CEO be first?
Student loans are big business
Conflicts of interest and disclosure
Disclosures you can actually understand
Considerations in Real Estate
Honesty isn’t easy
Time is money - Choose what you do wisely
Another one bites the dust
Finally, a voice of reason
Attract and maintain clients
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Cost of promoting seminars
Column for a local paper
PR is free media attention
What can you do for them?
Housing prices
Stock market drop
Email marketing
Educating workers on the concept of a 401K
Advantages of your approach
Add clarity
Marketing materials
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A brand is a reputation
Branding
Setting life goals
Marketing can be very creative
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Marketing brochers
Thailand decided to impose restrictions
Hedging a house
Pension obligations
Risk takers
Japanese market
ARMS
Cooking the books
Slow spiral
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Housing can be speculative
Bank regulation
Perfect for wealth building?
Canada is sitting on a huge oil field
Global banks
A savings account like a bond
The birth of a new company
Buffett vs. Kozlowski
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Municipal securities
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“Moral hazard”
Fed tours
Diversify a portfolio
Hank Paulson
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“The next big thing”
If China floated their currency
China
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“Starve the beast”
Keeping our economic growth going
The yield curve
High oil prices
Rational pattern
Advanced financial engineering
Deposit insurance
Passing on the risk
The Intelligent Investor
Are the markets really free?
Lack of oversight
State schools run at a loss
Greenspan considered EVERYTHING when making decisions
I don’t see a conundrum
Econ update
Productivity or just staying busy?
Humor and Organic Humor
Rational expectations joke
The Fed rocks
How Advisers get paid
Buying a car
Be empathetic
Pet peeves
Judgement
Maslow’s pyramid
Happiness
Thinking
Increasing cash flow
Neutral rate
Loosen currency controls
Fall out
Higher oil prices
Inter-connectivity of markets
Neutral rate
Buying our debt
Should the government bail out Ford and GM?
Globalization
British Question Hour
Fed rate increase
Know your personal traits as to risk taking
Budget deficit
You can’t beat the market
Buy an index and hold it
The Euro
Spin exists in finance
Foreign exchange
Europe has less flexibility
Outlook for Fannie Mae
The Russian market
The Fed rocks!
U.S. treasuries
Strong dollar, weak dollar
Insurance
Paying off debt
The Swiss banking system
Roots of education
The Fed stays away from politics
Hedge funds and mutual funds
Bond prices will fall
Bond prices will fall
Jobless growth
Inflation
Catalyst for failure
The risk has increased
Lagging indicator
Sell off in the stock market
Business spending
Increasing the money supply
If the interest rates decrease
Withdrawal penalty
The insurance king
Defined benefit plans
Social Security Tax
Econ update
Failure of SS
Insurance industry fraud
Independent thought
Investment banks at a disadvantage
The option to take life insurance early
The option to take life insurance early
IPO’s from banks
Airline miles
Jakarta
How about those pension funds
Econ update
The State of CA is in deep financial trouble
Bank risks
Government guarantees of bank deposits
South Korea
Turkey
China both full of opportunities and full of risks
Greed and fear
Econ update
The global aspects of the equity markets
Econ update
Attention turned to drug companies
Audit committee
Intrinsic value
Audit committee
Media and the markets
Expectations are critical
Disclose
ETF’s
Beating the market
Stock picking skills
Behavioral finance
Allegation of securities fraud
Tax revisions
Why don’t we just print up a few trillion?
The thing about herds
Lula taking surprising action
The mix of politics and economics
The Shepherd and his Flock
41% interest
The Efficient Market Hypothesis
Analysts; Regulation and Recommendations
Further evidence
Senate Banking Committee
Econ update
Economics can be frustrating
What about consumer credit?
Shocks can be overcome
New debt
Testimony to the Senate
Hedging at a cost
Looking beyond the US
About Brazil
Econ update
Price stability
How about that 30 year?
The glass is half empty?
I like Greenspan
Budget deficits and investment
Competent people
Monetary policy, an inexact science
Monetary Policy is an Inexact Science
Did the Fed do such a bad job?
Productivity growth
The Fed Funds Market
Misconception
Negative consequences from increased transparency?
Functions of the Fed: To Create (and Destroy) Money
Econ update
Function of the Fed: To Conduct Monetary Policy
Functions of the Fed: To Regulate and Support Institutions
Organizational Structure of the Fed
The trade imbalance
Zero percent loans
“Secrets of the Temple”
Do nothing ?
Greenspan Speak
A self funding branch of government
Intentional loopholes
Injecting liquidity
Consumer confidence
Conflicts around the world
Pending problem?
Zello Housing Problem
Econ update
Monetary policy
An explanation of agency theory
Dividends and Taxes
Black cat or White cat
The derivatives market and LTCM
Japan vs. US
Changing of the face of investors
Difficulty in selling when things were going so well
Mundell-Fleming
Econ update
Living in Never-Never Land
Interesting point on commissions
Shouldn’t we be able to believe in someone?
Econ Update
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