Profit from Uncle Sam’s Follies

September 7, 2010

With the start of a new month – we get yet another round of economic data that everybody from Wall Street to Pennsylvania Avenue is all charged up over. by Neil George Jobs, jobs, and yes, more jobs. That’s the news that came out on the first Friday of September. 67,000 of them to be [...]

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Finding the Cash to Fund Your Retirement

August 14, 2010

by Neil George With yet another round of stock market turbulence here at home, you may not have noticed that Brazil and China are seeing some big drops in foreign investment. But when it comes to your retirement, this bit of news is like the fainting canary in a coal mine – it isn’t good [...]

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Cash in on the Recent Jobs Data

August 8, 2010

by Neil George 131,000 folks losing their jobs is not good news. And, with 221,000 layoffs in the prior month, the number looks downright depressing. Economists will plug in those numbers and come up with lower estimates for US GDP, retail consumption and other bits and pieces of economic data that might well drive the [...]

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Another Banking Implosion Ahead?

August 1, 2010

by Neil George Some folks think that our remaining banks are now all fixed – that they’ll never implode as more than a few did over the past several years. Those same folks also believe they have Capitol Hill to thank – not just for stopping all of those evil bankers – but for laying [...]

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The REAL Investing Story Behind the Big Oil Spills

July 30, 2010

by Neil George With crude dispersing from view around the Gulf of Mexico – many are now thinking that the worst is over for oil spills. Unfortunately – it’s far from the truth. This week we’ve had two major oil spills resulting in massive damage, despite the current administration’s pledge to protect the environment and [...]

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Don’t Let Your Retirement Get Burned by the New Lithium ETF

July 25, 2010

by Neil George One of the splashy new issues hitting the market is the first ETF (exchange traded fund) supposedly giving investors access to the market for lithium. Called the Global X Lithium ETF, it began trading on July 23rd under the NYSE symbol of LIT. This is yet another in a recurring series of [...]

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Protect Your Retirement from Budget Cuts

July 25, 2010

by Neil George The current Administration is actually discussing cutting a bit of the trillions upon trillions of taxpayer dollars that make up the deficit-laden Federal Budget. While this is great news coming from an Administration that’s created a current deficit of over 1.3 trillion dollars – resulting in a bump up in the overall [...]

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Retirement Lessons to Learn from the End of BP

June 20, 2010

Too many folks made the mistake of trusting their retirement to BP. Their mistake is your wake-up call. by Neil George The destruction and losses of life in the Gulf of Mexico (and potentially soon along the Eastern seaboard of the US) caused by British Petroleum has been on a scale that’s hard to match [...]

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Stocks to Avoid for Your Retirement

May 29, 2010

Want to be able to retire and actually afford it? Don’t buy the market’s most highly recommended stocks. by Neil George I recently sat in on a presentation by Mark Hulbert, who besides writing a column for the Sunday New York Times, is also the editor of his own newsletter – the Hulbert Financial Digest. [...]

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What Caused the 1000 Point Drop

May 8, 2010

The big drop in the Dow Jones is not only a troubling development for the markets – it also threatens to reduce your retirement to rubble. by Neil George Panic was a good word to describe how most of us felt on last Thursday afternoon as news began to spread that the Dow Jones Industrial [...]

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