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there are supposed to be another big wave of foreclosures starting soon

anyone doing short term trading of a few days to a few weeks. theory is that if you control your losses you will make more money in the end

bit OT but i got my hands on an old Mac yesterday for free. G4 PowerMac with a 400MHz CPU. needs memory and a hard drive. unless i can find some for free i'm going to junk it. Ebay prices are $150 at best and buying 1GB of RAM for it is going to cost $100, plus another $50 for the hard drive...

it might have been a special promotion with the manufacturer for that one day. a lot of times sales, coupons and rebates are special agreements where the manufacturer shares the cost of the promotion or pays for it entirely to move inventory

i bought a 26 inch Sharp Aquos LCD 5 years ago for $1600. Checked a month ago and the same one with a better quality screen is now $349. my mom wants a 46 inch LCD and it's around $1000 - $1500 34 inch you should be able to get for around $500 - $700 which is a much better deal than fixing the...

depends on what your time horizon is i've read trading blogs where they buy a stock and put an automatic price that might kick off the same day

reminds me of the 1990's and my First Union account good thing my wife and I have old accounts with no fees. one of our accounts i opened up in 1993 via a special promotion

i've played with Mobi Pocket reader but there is no iphone version. it runs on windows, blackberry and WinMo. maybe another cell phone. Kindle also has an iphone app and you don't need a Kindle to read Kindle books. NY Public Library now lends out digital books. i read Hitchhiker's Guide to the...

there are no real standards for the term. Mark Bittman had a blog entry about it a few months ago. Big difference is that almost all supermarket beef is kept in tiny cages and fed some industrial produced feed topped off with growth hormones and antibiotics. Natural, organic and grass fed the...

Robert Prechter had a nice chart on his subscription website last year that showed that in the 1930's stocks bottomed out at double digit dividend yields

no way i'd pay $500 just to buy more books and newspapers iphone can at least do a long list of other things

i also have the NY Times app, AP News, USA Today, Bloomberg and a few others. WSJ is nice but if i were to look around i'd probably find the same information for free on the internet. and there are a bunch of finance apps that will give you stock and bond prices and depending on the price, i...

i've been too busy to keep up with the market lately but i've been peeking at blog.afraidtotrade.com every so often and back when SP500 was around 930 - 950 i sold everything in my 401k. cashed out my wife's a few days ago as well. don't know if we are going down to 500 for the SP500, but at the...

it depends on the TV LCD's made with the latest generation technology will have a higher price. Those made in factories with older generation technology can be had for less. you have to do some research on the TV and find out exactly which LCD screen is in there. there are a few manufacturers...

got one of them new iPhones WSJ app rocks, and it's free

is there such a crime as criminal dereliction of duty? in the end it's the same at the Enron story person1: what are you invested in? person2: Madoff funds person1: what do they hold? person2: duh, i don't know. but he said i get a 10% return every month

i think there is also a law that says if you have any kind of property and you end up with medicaid, then the government takes it after you die as payment

i've heard of people in NYC outliving their retirement money and still living comfortably on SS. key is to have your home paid off completely NYC property taxes are a lot lower than the ones in the suburbs and seniors get a discount as well

get a lawyer, there is an entire field dedicated to this. and there are specialties who work in this field where a graduate degree is required to do any kind of meaningful work. there are a lot of laws and regulations and it's very complicated

one time i looked at someone's plan that was managed by Blackrock. there were so many fees, i thought it was a merchant credit card agreement at first

never saw Casino? OT but last year they finally arrested the guys who beat the character Joe Pesci played

the rank and file have to vote on any new contract. few years ago they either voted down a proposed contract with chrysler or it passed with a very slim margin. i think the contract was supposed to reduce some medical benefits

for 2003 I paid $200 for my wife's and I taxes. would have done them myself, but she did a lot of independent consultant work that year and i didn't know how to do it. for the next few years i used Turbo Tax to handle her work. if you buy the boxed product you can save the database and import it...

or you give them what they want, collect the bonuses while times are good, and when the day of reckoning comes you don't care since you are retired or can retire on your own money. if you're a white collar worker than you probably have a 401k that will recover as well. let the UAW sort out...

i don't think GGP was bankrupt, they defaulted on one loan tied to a mall. from what i've read most bond covenants say if you default on one bond it's an automatic default on other bonds