Tag: speculating
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August 06, 2009 05:46 PM EDT --
Today's news is still filled with grim financial statistics from all around the globe. Yet there is one headline that hasn't gotten much attention: Beirut is Booming!
Yes, that Beirut! When you . . .
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August 06, 2009 07:16 PM EDT --
There have been so many bail-out packages, stimulus proposals and other unprecedented plans designed to save the economy, it's become nearly impossible for the casual observer to keep track of it all. . . .
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October 21, 2009 10:28 AM EDT --
Jose D. Roncal
www.financialspeculation.com
The DOW broke 10,000 this week for the first time in 2009. Is it time to celebrate? It does seem to bode well for the economic recovery. . . .
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November 04, 2009 08:00 PM EST --
Jose D. Roncal
www.financialspeculation.com
It's Halloween—a celebration marked with children's Jack O Lanterns, witches' bubbling brews, vampires, and make-believe visions of doom. . . .
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January 09, 2009 05:15 PM EST --
31 December 2008
Jose D. Roncal
www.financialspeculation.com
As we start the New Year, it's time to glance in the rear view mirror and rejoice that 2008 is behind us. It was a tumultuous . . .
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August 06, 2009 05:49 PM EDT --
It seems that the current financial crisis may threaten a lot more than our individual retirement accounts; it could threaten the foundation of our capitalistic economic structure that's based on . . .
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August 06, 2009 07:18 PM EDT --
So far, no one has found the magic balm to stop the economy from bleeding money. Once again the Dow headed south taking 250 points and our hard earned money with it. Obviously nobody trusts that . . .
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October 08, 2009 05:39 PM EDT --
Jose D. Roncal
www.financialspeculation.com
In our book, The Big Gamble: Are You Investing or Speculating, we ran a red flag up the pole with a warning about putting your money into so-called . . .
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August 06, 2009 07:20 PM EDT --
Nationalization. The word makes one shudder! It might even drudge up old images of the hammer and sickle or Mao's men marching in khaki uniforms! We've already mentioned the subject of nationalizing . . .
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August 07, 2009 02:52 PM EDT --
Last October we wrote an article explaining Mark-to-Market Accounting . The article gave a basic overview about what Mark to Market means, how it works, and the pros and cons. It was a heads up . . .
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August 07, 2009 03:04 PM EDT --
If you've read my book The Big Gamble: Are You Investing or Speculating , you may have made the connection between passages of our book and a recent Forbes.com article entitled, Benjamin Graham: . . .
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August 07, 2009 03:09 PM EDT --
Back in September, 2008 we covered a topic that we believed was getting too little attention by mainstream media: the looming credit card crisis. In both our white paper, Consumer Debt in the U.S . . .
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August 07, 2009 03:15 PM EDT --
The current financial crisis has changed our perceptions of the term capitalism and everything we have always assumed it stood for. The deeper the recession gets, the longer it drags on, the more anger . . .
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August 07, 2009 03:24 PM EDT --
After years of side-stepping oversight and regulation, the hedge fund industry is about to change. Even though it's not clear what role hedge funds played in the current economic crisis, the lackluster . . .
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August 07, 2009 03:33 PM EDT --
Our current economic crisis is so deep and complex it's not likely to right itself anytime soon. How do we work ourselves out of this hole? Do we need more regulation or less? This is a question . . .
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August 07, 2009 03:39 PM EDT --
It's a generally accepted fact that to be successful, you have to be willing to take risks. When you consider the practices of contemporary entrepreneurs like Sir Richard Branson, Frederick A. Smith, . . .
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August 07, 2009 03:41 PM EDT --
That's the question we wish we could have posed to scores of individuals before they unwittingly put their trust in Ponzi schemer, Bernie Madoff. On June 29, when the judge handed down a sentence . . .
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August 07, 2009 03:47 PM EDT --
You've probably read all the flack over this week's cover on Newsweek magazine—"The Recession is Over," with an added footnote reading, "good luck surviving the recovery." The message implies . . .
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August 17, 2009 04:35 PM EDT --
Jose D. Roncal
Before you read any farther, let's start with a little background on the term securitization and how it's evolved to the present times. If you click the link to Insightful . . .
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October 30, 2008 08:12 AM EDT --
I am very confused by all this fuss over some people losing their homes and wondering why we are all up in arms about very rich people that can actually afford to lose some of their investments. . . .
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