All told, about $7 trillion of shareholders’ wealth — the gains of the last six years — will be wiped out in a year marked by violent market swings.
via NYTimes.com.
I thought I would be diversified with international and emerging markets funds, but the decline of the U.S. markets also spread around the world. Even “safe” [...]
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Link via Quicken Community
I posted on this thread on post 25:
I have to chime in on the discord regarding the Brainiac decision to remove the one page overview of one’s portfolio. This was a quick and easy way to review holdings over multiple accounts, and now it’s gone! Please bring it back or if you [...]
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Henry Paulson’s conflict of interest. By Daniel Gross
I love the last paragraph. GW, thank you for our modern day plutocracy.
What’s the worst thing that could happen if Paulson held on to his Goldman stock? It’s possible that a government in which the treasury secretary had a gigantic stake in Goldman might recklessly cut marginal income [...]
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PBS | I, Cringely . April 6, 2006 - A Whole New Ball Game
I predict that Apple will settle on 64-bit Intel processors ASAP (with FireWire 800 please), and at that time will announce a product similar to Boot Camp to allow OS X to run on bog-standard 32-bit PC hardware, turning the Boot Camp [...]
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Run Windows XP natively on your Intel-based Mac with the Boot Camp Public Beta.
This will be big this upcoming Christmas since Microsoft Vista won’t be coming out until after the holiday season. Buyers looking a for a new computer will be able to purchase the best of both worlds (Windows for games and OS X [...]
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Independent Online Edition > Lasseter axes Toy Story 3
Praise the gods of Kobol that Lasseter axed Toy Story 3. Toy Story 2 was a great sequel, but a third movie would have done nothing to further the characters or the plot. The only thing it would have been good for is as another monster merchandising [...]
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I recently purchased Apple at $72 a share. It’s been on a little bit of a roller coaster ride recently with a recent high of 86.40. Right now, the stock is trading at $77. The recent uptick was probably due to the excitement over MacWorld and the announcement and shipment of the new Intel Macs. [...]
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