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6 Unusual Investments That Are Beating The Stock Market (PHOTOS)

August 30, 2010

Irregular times call for irregular investment strategies. Jeff Middleswart might be a poster boy for outside-the-box investing during the current downturn. In February, Middleswart took over as manager of a mutual fund that explicitly invests in “sin stocks” like cigarettes, alcohol, gambling and defense

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Bill Baker: Bernanke to World: "We’re Going to Fiddle While Rome Burns"

August 27, 2010

In Jackson Hole, Wyoming today Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said the risk of an “undesirable rise in inflation or of significant further disinflation seems low.” Yup, can’t argue with that. If you are operating a bank, and you had lost your depositors’ funds by making bad real estate loans, normally you would be sweating bullets by now, or among the 14.6 million pounding the pavement looking for work. But you need not worry

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The 14th Banker: New Banks Needed

August 25, 2010

This week news flow continues to indicate an economy that is significantly weakening from an already anemic activity level.

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Danny Schechter: Hard Times Are Getting Harder, Left Is Silent

August 25, 2010

Who is Talking About What Matters Aren’t job losses and foreclosures as important as a “Ground Zero Mosque” (that isn’t a mosque, hasn’t been built or isn’t even at ground zero?) We know we live in hard times that are on the verge of getting harder with 500,000 new claims for unemployment last week, a recent record.

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Dan Solin: The Myth of the Stock Market Guru

August 25, 2010

The securities industry has many ways to separate you from your money. My personal favorite is hedge funds. These funds push all the right buttons: Greed, the promise of outsized returns, elitism, and the thrill of playing with the big boys.

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In Striking Shift, Small Investors Flee Stock Market

August 23, 2010

Renewed economic uncertainty is testing Americans’ generation-long love affair with the stock market. Investors withdrew a staggering $33.12 billion from domestic stock market mutual funds in the first seven months of this year, according to the Investment Company Institute, the mutual fund industry trade group

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Small U.S. Investors Pull $33.12 Billion From Mutual Funds

August 22, 2010

Investors withdrew a staggering $33.12 billion from domestic stock market mutual funds in the first seven months of this year, according to the Investment Company Institute, the mutual fund industry trade group. Now many are choosing investments they deem safer, like bonds. Follow this link: Small U.S

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Kenneth Kales: We Are the Power Base

August 18, 2010

The current economic boiling-over had already been simmering on too high of a flame since the 1950s after World War II. That was the beginning of an era when the approach was, “What is good for General Motors is good for America.” Since that time, the people’s inherent powers have evaporated with more and more power going to the top 10% in our economic structure.

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Dan Dorfman: The Curse of the Yen

August 17, 2010

With Halloween a little more than two months away, we’ll soon be confronted with the traditional array of fiendish masks of Frankenstein, Dracula and Wolf Man. Economically speaking, I chatted the other day with a combination of the three all wrapped into one: Florida investment adviser Michael Larson.

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Video: Donald Yacktman Discusses U.S. Stock Market Prices: Video

August 16, 2010

Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) — Donald Yacktman, co-chief investment officer at Yacktman Asset Management Co., discusses U.S. stock prices

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