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Civet Coffee:Never Underestimate How Much You Can Scam Rich People With "Exotic" Products

Credit default swaps, Madoff's alleged Ponzi scheme, and now Civet Coffee (I wish I could poop expensive coffee beans).
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Twitter - One of the Best Financial Tools

How to harness the power of twitter to dramatically improve your trading. read more »
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Valuation and Risk Measurement Models under Heavy Criticism – What Went Wrong?

Are valuation and risk measurement models as the root of all evil? read more »
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So were hedge funds that bad in 2008?

The Credit Suisse/Tremont index tracks over 5000 index funds. And the December returns came in basically flat as the index returned -0,03% which brin[...] read more »
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The Ensign Group, Inc. (ENSG) - Stable Medical Investment

With the stock currently trading at about 13 times current earnings, and stable growth a proven trend, it appears the value is strong and investors c[...] read more »
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Is the Stock Market a Big Ponzi (Madoff) Scheme?

Looking into the notion of the western financial markets as a big pyramid scheme read more »
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The Carnival of Money Stories Edition #90 – Happy Holidays Edition

The 90th Edition of the Carnival of Money Stories Hosted @ The Personal Financier. Good articles of the personal experiences of financial bloggers. read more »
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Bush Equals Falling Dollar

Compared to where the dollar was last year, it doesn’t seem so bad right now. What about from where the dollar was 8 years ago (aka Bush enters offic[...] read more »
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Six Step Guide to Rebuilding Your Retirement

Seeing your 401k trashed? Read on to restore your balance! read more »
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Infrastructure and Investment - Another New Deal

The natural tendency for investors when told of the infrastructure initiatives is to buy large cap names like Fluor (FLR) and Jacobs Engineering (JEC[...] read more »
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Time to get into oil??

Can Oil still go down? Absolutely! Many analysts now have forecasts of 25$/barrel!But I don’t think we will have oil sitting at 30-35$ in 2-3 years. read more »
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25 Ingenious Ways to Spend Your Time in the Current Financial Crisis

With the stock market at multi-year lows, perhaps these alternatives below are worth considering! read more »
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The 100% Stock Portfolio: Why Not?

If you have a long enough time horizon and a high enough tolerance for volatility, what's to stop you from allocating your entire portfolio to stock[...] read more »
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What are Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)

A short and concise description of ETFs. read more »
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Multiple Time Frames; Different Outcome

Over the last couple of weeks it seems like the markets have definitely made up some ground, but with all this volatility it is kind of confusing try[...] read more »
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