This post is a guest contribution by Bennet Sedacca*, President of Atlantic Advisors Asset Management. “The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced. The arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn’t want to go bankrupt, people must learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.” - Cicero, 55 BC. Is Debt The New Equity? I have been negative on credit for what seems like

How does the stock market work? How do investors use the stock trading to increase their wealth? Let?s have a quick look at the fundamentals behind the stock market and then you will never again have to ask how does the stock market work. Warren Buffet once said that ?The stock market is simply the transfer of wealth from the impatient to the patient?. What does Warren Buffet (the greatest investor of all time) mean by this quote? Apart from the obvious I think what he really means is that it

Traders may invent a new derivative to get around oversight Nov 15, 2008 Market Outlook Leave a comment Custom Search They already talked on tv about how to get around the rule for not shorting the banks. Most of the derivatives they invent is to shift the risk onto someone else. The banks shifted the risks onto insurance companies. AIG just shifted the risk back onto the government. The larger these companies get, the more they know that the government will bail them out;

The Cheesecake Factory (NASD:CAKE) popped up on Trading Ideas for Tuesday. The company recently announced weaker earnings caused by consumers eating out much less. The Cheesecake Factory (CAKE) Daily Chart with InVivo Swing Trading Tools We wrote in early June that CAKE was entering the Overt Warning to Panic phase of The Investor Sentiment Cycle. At the time, we suggested that the key lesson to watch and see if “Smart money shorts each failing bounce.” We can see from the chart that sm

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