?Kamikaze missions are rarely successful, least of all for the pilots,? said Robert Gibbs, former White House Press Secretary.
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It?s all about the dollar. In fact, it?s been all about the dollar all year. When the buck is strong, as it was in early January, stocks, commodities, and energy crater. When the greenback is weak, everything rallies as they have done since mid January. The good news for those short stocks, commodities, and oil
?Revenues stink in the banking area. This decade will be the worst for revenue growth since the Great Depression,? said Mike Mayo, the controversial banking analyst at the Asian brokerage and research house, CLSA.
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Once again, I am writing to you from poolside cabana B-2 at the posh Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. It is a baking hot 100 degrees in the shade and the air is bone-dry, so I?m draining my third strawberry daiquiri for the day.The days when I risked getting dragged out to the parking lot
?Most of the time, stocks are in a zone of reasonableness. I think stocks are reasonable now,? said Oracle of Omaha, Berkshire Hathaway?s Warren Buffett.
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A market where both fundamental research and technical analysis are utterly useless and everything goes the opposite of where it should is no place for me. Despite having negative interest rates and the world?s worst fundamentals, the Japanese yen has been skyrocketing since the beginning of February. The last time the yen (FXY), (YCS) moved
I received a few emails from readers whose option holdings have already been exercised against them, and have asked me for advice on how best to proceed. In the last few months, we have enjoyed several positions that have gone deep in the money, earning tidy profits. So, it is important that we tread carefully
?There were three things the Russians were afraid of: AIDS, Jewish people, and Ronald Reagan. They were afraid he was going to push the button,? said KGB defector, Jack Barsky.
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I knew the letter from the IRS sitting in my mail box was bad news just from the color of the paper. It was not light green, the color of a refund check from the United States Treasury. Instead, it was white, warning that it contained some sort of demand, audit notice, or threatened legal
Just a quick note of appreciation for your helping me decide to get my clients into (GLD) with a 15% allocation early this year.It sure has helped me to be more of a hero to my clients this year than a goat?Best wishes to you and yours!? Keep ?em coming. Brad Bakersfield, California
"In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock,? said the filmmaker, Orson Wells.
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Down, then up, then up some more. That?s all you need to know. The stock market will mirror the economy with a three-month lag, as it always does. That calls for a 10% correction in stocks from the recent $2100 peak going into the summer, then a monster rally to new highs going into the
Those of you counting on getting your old union assembly line job back in Detroit can forget it.The eight year forecast published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that 4.19 million jobs will be gained in the US in professional and business services, followed by 4 million health care and social assistance jobs, while
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