Filed under: Forecasts, Good news, Rants and raves, Apple Inc (AAPL), Cisco Systems (CSCO), General Electric (GE), Stocks to Buy, Intuitive Surgical Inc (ISRG), Recession, American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) If there is anything that makes me think we could be close to a market bottom, it is all the peo...

Filed under: International markets, Good news, Management, Citigroup Inc. (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of New York (BK), Wells Fargo (WFC), Chasing Value, U.S. Bancorp (USB) It is being reported today in the Business Journal that the safest bank in the United States is Wells Fargo & Company (...

Filed under: Rants and raves, Personal finance, Politics, Recession General George S. Patton was attributed with saying: "No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country." This was played out to perfection by George C. Scott in the Os...

I knew it would happen to some of my stock picks this year -- but ouch! -- Anglo American (NASDAQ: AAUK) has reported that it is handing out 19,000 pink slips world wide, oh, by the way, you can forget about the dividend -- that's gone too. The stock closed yesterday at $8.75 and is trading down at ...

Filed under: International markets, Management, Industry, Microsoft (MSFT), General Motors (GM), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Diageo plc (DEO), Serious Money, Oil It does not matter whether you are focused on the gala event of president Obama's inauguration or Gala apples, it is a new day. Actually the two ga...

Filed under: Rants and raves, Competitive strategy, Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), Cisco Systems (CSCO), General Motors (GM), Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI), Citigroup Inc. (C), Bank of America (BAC), Nucor Corp (NUE), Recession Almost two years ago I posted a downbeat opinion about a merger that w...

Filed under: Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), China, Reliance Steel and Aluminum (RS), Valero Energy (VLO), Huaneng Power Intl ADS (HNP), Chasing Value, Commodities, Oil, Anglo Amer ADR (AAUK), DJIA, Stocks to Buy, Newcastle Investment (NCT), Raytheon Company (RTN), Best Stocks for 2008, Bunge Ltd. (BG),...

Filed under: Consumer experience, Rants and raves, Market matters, Scandals, Citigroup Inc. (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of America (BAC) If we keep hearing about companies that are "too big to fail" what in the world are we doing allowing Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. ...

Filed under: General Electric (GE), Diageo plc (DEO), Federal Natl Mtge (FNM), Anadarko Petroleum (APC), Wells Fargo (WFC), Chasing Value, Anglo Amer ADR (AAUK), Stocks to Buy, Intuitive Surgical Inc (ISRG), Annaly Capital Management (NLY) Anybody have capital gains to show this year? I didn't think...

Filed under: Management, Rants and raves, Ford Motor (F), General Motors (GM), Politics, Sunday Funnies, Recession In a high stakes game of chicken this past week, the Senate GOP and UAW leadership could not agree on setting a date certain for cutting members wages and the hard-line senators would n...