Bargains Are Starting To Appear A Bottom Fishing Check List The Bear Isn't Finished Yet Big Drops Lead To Big Rebounds Financial Stocks Attract More Attention There Is One More Shoe To Fall The Biggest Question: Will The Bailout Work? The Bottom Line This Week Wall Street's thrill ride continued...
IN THIS ISSUE: An Inside Look At The Mortgage Bailout Bill Equity Ownership & Limits On Executive Pay Mortgage Assistance & The Bankruptcy Code Expanded FDIC Limits On Bank Accounts Was The Bailout The Right Thing To Do? The Senate's $150 Billion In Extra Bailout Pork John McCain Blew An...
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A Nasty, But Not A Calamitous, Stock Plunge Our Contrary Opinion A Cure For The Crisis Is Already Being Applied It's Time To Do Some Cautious Buying Stock Buyers Should Sip, Not Gulp The Bottom Line This Week People who enjoy excitement must envy investors right now. Not even thrill seekers who travel...
September 26, 2008 Dear Readers, What a world I have returned to from my cloistered retreat at the beautiful Vivenda Miranda , scenically situated on a cliff outside of the quaint port town of Lagos, Portugal. Everything has changed. Everything is changing. The storm we have so long tried to help you...
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IN THIS ISSUE: The Latest $700 Billion Bailout Package What Could Go Wrong? Potentially A Lot What Could Go Right, If We're Lucky? What Would Happen To The Profits, If Any? A "Main Street" Backlash To Come? Introduction Like it or not, members of the House and Senate, with the approval...
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IN THIS ISSUE: Details Of The Massive $700 Billion Bailout Government Guarantees Money Market Funds Will Congress Pass The Bailout Plan? Should The Government Bail Out Homeowners? Will Uncle Sam Overpay For The Assets? Credit Crisis May Tip The Election To Obama Time To Prepare For A Recession Just Ahead...
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September 12, 2008 Dear Readers, In today’s “special” edition of the Room, I want to go somewhat beyond the latest news and observations on same. Instead, I want to discuss the big picture as it relates to the U.S. and global economy. I do so because it is growing more important with each passing day...
August 22, 2008 Dear Readers, Summer weather, at least that of the preferable sort, has finally returned to the corner of the globe where your correspondent sits listening, too loudly, to Michael Franti’s Yell Fire! . ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7WASrQFg8o ) For those of you unfamiliar with Franti...
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IN THIS ISSUE: Fed Leaves Interest Rates Unchanged Again But Will Inflation Really Moderate? Stocks - Stuck In A Long-Term Sideways Pattern? Bad News For Millions Of Baby Boomers A Wall Street Myth About To Be Shattered? Avoiding Big Losses Is The Key, Maybe It's Time You Join Us The Bottom Line...
Introduction Once again it's time for me to demonstrate the foolhardy part of my nature by putting to electronic pen my forecast for 2006. I spend more research time on this one letter than on any four or five combined, simply reading hundreds of pages of research, looking at mountains of data all...