Archive for April, 2008
Stock Market Investing for Long Term Growth
Finally you have some extra money that you can call your own above that required for living expenses. Your extra money is true risk capital as you could lose it and not have to adjust your lifestyle.
Naturally, you want to see your extra money grow.
At today’s low rates of interest saving your money in a bank doesn’t excite you as it offers too little growth potential. The interest return is even below the inflation rate so you are a sure loser in an inflationary environment. You want something that gives a little more risk, with the hopes of having a much larger financial return. You turn to the stock market.
29Apr2008 | taipan | 1 comment | Continued
Great Financial Panic 2008
What financial panic you might say? Hasn’t the recent Fed actions, lead by Helicopter Ben Bernanke, poured enough taxpayer money, pardon me, that is printing press generated US dollars, into the hands of his Wall Street buddies, to ware off any potential panic?
Nope, afraid not. While the government line may be coordinated with the talking heads on MBNC and elsewhere, as to that a crisis and panic has been adverted and that we no longer need to worry, I fear that the truth is that the financial meltdown has barely gotten started as the problems of over leveraging and the necessary deleveraging are still very much with us.
25Apr2008 | taipan | 0 comments | Continued
Euro Dollar Trading Above 160.00 is Warning
The long anticipated target of 160.00 Euro Dollars to the US Dollar was hit and briefly exceeded in forex trading today. That’s quite a long way from the par price that the Euro started trading against the US Dollar in 1999 and should be taken by US policy makers as a warning that all is not well with US policies on multiple fronts.
The Euro surged to above 160.00 after two governors of the ECU central bank stated that the EC may need to raise interest rates in order to keep inflation under control.
The euro was introduced to world financial markets as an accounting currency in 1999 and launched as physical coins and banknotes on 1 January 2002.
22Apr2008 | taipan | 0 comments | Continued
New Bull Market Surge Underway?
One might wonder if a new bull market surge underway will be lasting as the stock market has put on quite a performance over recent trading sessions.
Friday’s trading sessions on the NYSE and the NASDAQ were attention getting amazing. CitiGroup reported a huge $13 billion write down for the first quarter and that it was cutting 9,000 jobs. That was taken as good news as it might be the last of the bad news and Citi’s stock surges. What optimists the current largely untested in a bear market group of money managers are.
19Apr2008 | taipan | 0 comments | Continued
General Electric Earnings Disappoint and Scare Wall Street
General Electic issued an earnings report for the first quarter on Friday which scared Wall Street and helped to send the DOW 252 points lower.
“Today’s announcement from GE is not typical of the company. It rarely lowers guidance and rarely misses its forecasts. But not this time. That is what is so scary.” - Andrew Snyder
By: Andrew Snyder
Baltimore (TFN)– You do not think the credit crisis is over just like that? A few weeks of ups and downs, some presses releases, and some rule changes and the economy is fixed. Get real. This mess is just getting started.
12Apr2008 | taipan | 0 comments | Continued
Ever Wondered How Money Is Really Created?
Have you ever wondered about the real money story, how money is created, where it really comes from, and by whom? Do you realize that money is really debt? That under our fractional reserve banking system banks can and do create money out of thin air. All you need to do to feed the system is to take out a loan at a bank.
Have you ever wondered why it is so hard to beat the inflation rate and to get ahead in America? If so this video may have some answers for you.
6Apr2008 | taipan | 0 comments | Continued
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