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Ron Paul on Monetary Policy: Who’s In Charge of the Dollar? 2008-07-13 07:01:23 Here’s a video of Ron Paul
at the latest Financial Services Hearing, July 10, 2008, talking to Henry Paulson. Wow. You’d never get this information so quick ten years ago. Take advantage of it! Now is the time to learn more about the US economy and about what’s really going on. [...]
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, Policy
, Dollar
, Monetary Policy
Never Heard of IndyMac But It Looks Like Jim Rogers Is Right Again 2008-07-12 16:28:38 What an amazing and totally unsurprising story. Apparently, “IndyMac’s seizure marks the fifth FDIC-insured failure of the year,” as reported on KNBC. It’s yet another case of the US government trying to bail out a financial institution. I can see Jim Rogers
seething in a mixture of disbelief and “I-told-you-so” right [...]
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, Looks
, Right
, Again
How Much Diversification is Enough? 2008-07-29 07:01:19 The answer to this question depends on who you’re talking to, of course. One author spouting ETF’s shows how, if you want to keep things really basic, you only need three ETF’s if they’re well chosen. A bond ETF, an S&P composite ETF, and some foreign ETF. Jim Cramer doesn’t do ETFs, [...]
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, Enough
ZENN Cars Perfect for City-Dwellers: Zero Emissions, No Noise! 2008-07-28 07:09:42 Haven’t yet heard of Toronto-based ZENN Motor Company (TSX: ZNN)? I hadn’t either until two days ago. Honda Schmonda and the fuel-cell cars that are only available in SoCal. You can buy your ZENN car (that stands for Zero Emissions, No Noise
) in Oak Forest, IL, Bozeman, MT and Fayetteville, NC. [...]
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Jim Cramer’s Top Ten Stock Picks for Diversification 2008-07-27 07:01:05 This past weekend I was in my local library and perusing through the financial section when I picked up Jim Cramer
’s Real Money (2005) and Mad Money (2006) books. I’d heard obliquely of Cramer before, but, I think because historically I’ve been so focussed on “DRIPPING” as my sole investing strategy, I’d never had [...]
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, Stock
, Jim Cramer
, Top Ten
Phillipines Poised to Become First-Class Economy by 2020 2008-08-13 07:01:26 The Philippines, which is officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is located in Southeast Asia. It comprises 3 big islands, namely: Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Because of its geographic location, a variety of crops can be produced. The main exports of the Philippines come from the agriculture sector. Certain products like palay, [...]
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, First
Cashflow Consciousness 2008-08-11 07:07:57 Last week Double from DoubleOurMoney suggested that I spend some more time talking about cashflow and where I’m at in my progress with it. It is, after all, my main goal: to boost my monthly cashflow from diverse, global sources to a point where I have gained significant options regarding how I can spend [...]
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The Greenback Buy-Back Plan: Why The Rising US Dollar is the World’s Biggest Hoax 2008-08-27 16:46:21 Still not convinced that there is central bank intervention in the markets or that the markets aren’t really “free” anyway? Here’s the most direct example you’re going to find. Toronto’s Financial Post analyst Jacqueline Thorpe reports - just now, in August 2008, - that back over one weekend in March 2008, just after [...]
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, Dollar
, World
No Emergency Fund Yet? Invest in Dividends as A Bridge 2008-09-19 07:06:07 It can take a while to build up an emergency fund. Besides, you’ll probably need more than one. You need a “big” emergencies fund for things such as accidents, deaths, or job loss. But you also need a general “unexpected contingencies” fund for expenditures that aren’t family or life and death emergencies, but are nevertheless [...]
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