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Focusing on Commodity ETFs: Hyperinflation Seems Inevitable
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On Dec 02 12:52 PM cma cma wrote:
> DBC is also an ETN, I believe, sponsored by Deutsche Bank.
The Fall of Index Funds
You're looking at a very limited subset of time and proclaiming indexing is dead based on your "foreseeable"... future. That's incredibly naive.
As an exercise, list all mutual funds that have beat the S&P since 1980, barring expenses. You may note that the number of funds that have done so is exceedingly small.
People who index don't look at 5 or 10 year records. They look at 20, 30, or 40 year records. They look at dollar cost averaging, which you completely omit.
Why don't you get some real long term market statistics and compare actively managed mutual funds to index funds. You may just learn something.
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Buy-Write Option Strategy Generating Nice Profits
CEFs: BEO, MCN, BEP, ETB, ETV, ETW.
Normal cautions and due diligence on these folks.
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Airlines: Land Mine or Gold Mine?
Like most other sectors, airline performance is driven by consumer need. With the world economies collectively in the tank, I don't see the airlines are going to do any better than other consumer driven sectors.
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Market Not Risky Enough for You? Try These Two New Triple-Levered ETFs
Read the prospectus and then do the math on a couple of scenarios. You're return degrades over time in a volatile market. These are really better to hold in a trending market, unles you're going to day or swing trade.
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Global Stock Markets: In the Grip of Fear?
One of the reasons why all these announcements of bailout and such don't sem to have any impact is because there is no truth hat these measures will do anything. That is backed up by the fact that they haven't one anything. Almost as soon as one plan is approved it either needs to be immediately increased or another plan has to be created.
That ends up painting a picture that even our "leaders" really don't have a clue to how large and deep the credit crisis really is. Until they're more certain, people in general are going to sit it out on the sidelines and cash out.
This is as much a crisis in confidence and trust as it is a financial crisis. Face it, the general populace has been lied to many time over the past in regards to the crisis. Firms have reassured their investors only to have to back track weeks later. Banks have reassured their depositors only to have the FDIC come in and take them over.
If people don't trust banks, companies, or their leaders then they aren't going to put their money anywhere near them.
And did I mention that the bailout package was extremely unpopular but was rammed through congress anyway?
Here's the truth. No one knows how bad this is going to get. The Lehman settlement showed us one thing, that things are worse than they seem. Institutions still are not being 100% forthcoming. They will be forced to over the next couple of years, but until that happens the market is going to be a roller coaster at best.
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A Magic Multiplier?
The banks screwed everyone over, and now we are bailing them out with our money. Absolutely brilliant.
The banks need to fail. The pain needs to be felt. Nothing will change otherwise.
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Eight ETFs to Preserve Your Wealth
How to Punish Wall Street and Protect Main Street
If you want to see what happens with a tax-payer backed bailout plan, look at what happened to Japan. Same situation. Same plan. Financial disaster.
There are consequences that have to be felt for anything to change. We'll feel the pain to be sure, but that is one hard lesson to learn. Find the puppet masters who orchestrated this mess, take everything they own. Sell all their assets. Use THAT money to help the recovery.
My kids already will be in debt all their lives thanks to government largess WITHOUT this ridiculous golden toilet seat plan for corporate America to take a dump on Joe Sixpack.
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In Defense of Capitalism
This isn't the first and it certainly won't be last time that something like this occurs.
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Tracking 9 ETF Portfolios
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U.S. Household Net Worth Is Up by 43% Since 2002
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Obama and McCain Don't Understand the Markets
Don't blame it on the rule. Blame it on the banks. They took massive risks, and the rule effectively pinned them to the wall. They had to actually show the toxic garbage on their books. That's when the house of cards came falling down.
Would you prefer them not to show us their books? Would it have been better to allow that huge unregulated market to keep going? And what then? What happens when a multi-billion dollar company has a multi-trillion dollar debt thanks to high leverage? Should we pretend everything is fine until the whole system implodes?
Greed and hubris by the banks are once again leading the charge into economic destruction. It isn't the first time and probably won't be the last time.
Greed is the power behind capitalism, but it is also it's nemesis. Too much greed destroys free markets. This is just another example.
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Supply Side Economics Contradictions Live on in Washington
The answer is very simple. People keep electing the wrong people. Government costs money, and a lot of people profit from bigger government.
The RINO neo-cons are anything but fiscally conservative. In fact, they're really only socially conservative. If you want the government to cut spending and in turn cut taxes without driving our debt further through the roof, you'll have to vote for individuals like Ron Paul. No one else, including McCain, is going to reduce spending by any significant degree.
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Breaking Up with ETFs is Hard To Do
My ETFs can drop as much as they want. If you're holding for a 30 year time horizon a small blip now is nothing to get that excited about. I just keep buying according to schedule.
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