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  • The 'Reflation' Top Ten Portfolio
    I would go with HPT, MARPS, CRT and a few other trusts (US-based to avoid the Canadian tax issue) to collect the dividends, while dabbling a little bit in a few other gradually rising stocks. I've been trying to ignore the day to day rise and fall, and compared to 3 months ago, almost everything I've been despairing about has come up above those levels. Not a lot, of course, but I'm comparing to October, before the big drop we experienced then, so maybe there's hope. I hold BPT as well.
    Jan 07 19:16 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Marc Faber on the Economy, Gold, WWIII
    We can blame others (governments, banks, big oil, etc.) until the skies turn polka-dotted, but at some point we have to accept responsibility for the things we each do for ourselves and TO ourselves. WE the users went for those adjustable rate mortgages. WE believed the hype. WE didn't pay the mortgage. WE lost those houses/cars/boats. The government here is such that it makes things available, but no one forced anyone to sign the papers. WE did that. WE refused to read the papers. WE refused to do the math. WE refused to ask the loan-makers to show us the numbers on paper. WE refused to listen when the interest rates were going up. And WE liked it, because our house values were going up at the same time. WE wanted higher values for our houses because we knew it would make us rich when we sold to some poor sucker. The blame lies with each of us that made those stupid mistakes.

    I've been criticized by friends for living in a cheap apartment, not buying new furniture, not buying a new car, not taking that second credit card, not buying new clothes. But now, my rent is affordable, my heat is free, my lights are cheap, my car is paid off, my credit card carries a balance that will be paid off next week, and my furniture and clothes are still just as good as they were. I won't have a house to leave to my kids (and they won't have to try to sell it), but I will have money. The funny thing about money is that kids young and old like it. And they like it more than Aunt Gerda's antimacassar and Uncle Herb's rickety rocking chair.

    As a nation, as independent and FREE thinkers, we need to begin to take responsibility for our OWN actions, we need to stop whining and blaming everything else for what we have brought on ourselves. Housing bubble or not, global warming or not, it isn't important if WE don't take responsibility for ourselves. I'm tired of listening to everyone place blame.
    Jan 07 08:27 am |Rating: +31 -3 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Manufacturing Collapse Reminiscent of Great Depression's Beginning
    Up today because I still haven't gotten back into financials. I'm with axelrod on this, and can only hope I keep choosing correctly.
    Jan 06 19:16 pm |Rating: 0 -1 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Three Stocks That Should Benefit from 2009's Trends
    Until he was elected, no one had a clue what kind of CHANGE was intended because the illustrious one never said exactly what he was planning to do. Unfortunately, no one noticed that (or refused to notice). Now we are going to find out. Good or bad, we are on that road and going where no one knows what to expect. I agree that TNK will go up, because oil is going up. The others are not in my portfolio for a reason - I want dividends. I want to know ahead of time what to expect. So I don't have non-dividend stocks and I didn't vote for the illustrious one.
    Jan 06 10:14 am |Rating: +4 -3 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Up, Up and Away
    I'm 59, and I just can't even consider bonds as more than a small piece of the pie right now. I'm having too much fun with stocks! But then, Risk is my middle name... and I'm not dead yet.
    Jan 06 10:00 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Favoring the Up Side at the Start of the New Year
    One can only hope that if things are still up at the mid-January point you are not then saying we have to wait a month until we see Obama's results. At that rate, we might just have to wait for another 4 years...
    Jan 06 09:49 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Crudomania Is Over
    Oil is not just gasoline, it is used for way too many things for us to stop using it any time soon. Since we don't seem inclined to drill here, we must continue to buy it elsewhere. While the price of oil was sinking fast, I was picking up a little more here, a little more there, and collecting dividends, reinvesting them, and finding extra cash here and there to buy a little more. Now, with the price of oil up from it's vacation in the 30's, I'm at a happy place. It can stay at 50 or go to 75, and I'll buy the gas I need, and heat my home, and pay the higher prices because my investments are going up at a much faster rate thanks to those low 30's. And when we figure out how to replace oil completely, I'll invest in something else. Maybe tulip bulbs.
    Jan 06 09:17 am |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • 17 Stocks to Smooth the Bumpy Road Ahead
    No such word as "worser"... that being said, I'll take a look at these stocks and consider rounding out my dividend-based portfolio.
    Jan 05 09:15 am |Rating: +1 -1 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Cramer's Mad Money - Common Investment Mistakes (1/2/09)
    It's generalizing to assume Cramer is always wrong. He isn't wrong any more often than the others, but he is more vocal about his thoughts/beliefs. And those who don't like him probably lost money. Those who do, probably didn't lose. If you do your own research, you may discover why this or that stock didn't do well for you, maybe because you got in too late, or too early, or didn't get enough, or got too much, or maybe you just don't like that one. I don't know that ANY analyst - professional or otherwise - has anything I want to hear, since they sway the market and then no one knows if it was the market that swayed things or the analyst's analysis. So I write a lot of stuff down, and then go out and research things over and over, and often miss a good buy, but maybe just as often catch one incidentally. But I am not going to say "Do what Cramer says NOT to do," because he's had the same good days others have had. Cramer didn't crash any stocks. I don't think he's that powerful. But the more danger you ascribe to him, the sillier you look.
    Jan 04 12:24 pm |Rating: +1 -1 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Where Will Oil End 2009?
    If our new president can turn the economy around - and the jury is still out on if, when, how - people will start to feel good about everything again, and they will start to spend money faster. This will not only improve all the financial aspects even more, it will mean people start traveling more, driving more, and that means more oil. Yes, we need alternatives to oil, but no one has come up with an affordable replacement for gasoline and so far we can't seem to reproduce it cheaply, if at all. Therefore, if Lord Obama can do his turnaround thing, the price of oil will eventually come back up too. And if he taxes the big oil companies and places restrictions on them, you can bet the price of oil will go even higher because WE pay those taxes in higher prices, and we pay for those restrictions. Yes, it's nice to fill up for under $20, but in order to get that, I watched my IRA take a dive. Even with investments in funds, those funds invested in oil also. So now I'll invest in oil while it's low, and it will go up again. Maybe someday we'll have a replacement but we use it in too many things to expect that oil won't always be a factor - at least in the next 50 years or so. (And by then, maybe they'll figure out something else.)
    Jan 04 09:37 am |Rating: +3 -2 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Ideas for Investing in Crude Oil
    Apologies for not returning - power outage... I asked about the CRT, DOM, etc. because you mentioned Canadian trusts but slid past the ones here in the US. The advantage - aside from the dividends - is the lack of foreign taxes. I hold both Canadian and American oil trusts because I love dividends, but the closer we get to that 2011 mark, the more I will be watching the news for info on that tax. When it is implemented, I will sell the Canadian trusts.
    Jan 01 08:56 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • 10 Clean Energy Stocks for 2009
    Bring on the speculative stocks. I'm ready!
    Jan 01 08:49 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Crude Oil Should Offer Investors Real Opportunity In 2009
    Remembering fondly the 30 cent gallons of gas, and dreading the $4.00 gallons (knowing they will return someday), I can only wish I'd gotten in a few decades ago. Now that I'm in, I'm staying, because it will go up. I leave my children to decide what they will invest my profits in, after I'm gone.
    Jan 01 08:43 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • 10 Market Thoughts to Start the New Year
    I like #9, but I really love #4. If there was a ban on analysts and predictions, I wonder if we would have had such an ugly outcome?

    Do I know what I'm doing? Probably not. Did I lose money in 2008? Yes, but no more than most. My glass is half full.
    Jan 01 08:22 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • There is No Household Debt Crisis
    I'm not sure exactly where everyone else is, and I'm not a millionaire, or even a thousandaire... if there is such a thing. But my household expenses haven't changed one iota, nor has my income changed in either direction. My loans are still paid on time, my credit cards are paid every month in full, my car is paid off, my insurance is paid, my taxes are paid. This is probably why I don't have a lot of money in the bank, but I have ENOUGH to stay in this position for now. My investments tanked, like everyone else's, but on a daily basis, my life hasn't changed at all. IF, as I hope, the market does go back up eventually, maybe my financial stocks won't laugh at me anymore. My oil stocks will tell me I was right to hold on to them. And here and there I'm picking up some stocks that are starting to look appetizing now. So for those of us who haven't been living beyond our ability to pay, this article isn't too far off base. For those who have that never-ending desire to surpass the Joneses, tough luck.
    Dec 30 08:29 am |Rating: +6 0 |Link to Comment |View article

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