From Guzzo the Contrarian
November 5, 2010 at 5:05 pm
I’ve been anticipating this week to occur for a few months now. For the week both the DJIA and Nasdaq rose 2.9% and the S&P 500 climbed 3.6%. All three main market indices ... (
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From Guzzo the Contrarian
November 3, 2010 at 3:05 pm
Looks like the Fed has decided to take more action to help ensure further, and perhaps quicker, economic growth. As excerpted from today’s Federal Reserve FOMC Statement ... (
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From Guzzo the Contrarian
November 3, 2010 at 3:01 am
Some good investing advice from John Bogle on CNNMoney.
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From Guzzo the Contrarian
November 2, 2010 at 5:57 pm
It’s that time of the year again. Time for the U.S. Treasury to announce any changes to their composite I-Bond earnings rate. According to a Bureau of Public Debt news release ... (
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From Guzzo the Contrarian
November 1, 2010 at 3:24 pm
From the AZPBS program, Horizon, bankruptcy attorney Diane Drain shares her views on the foreclosure crisis and news that some lenders have been taking potentially fraudulent shortcuts ... (
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From Guzzo the Contrarian
October 30, 2010 at 6:13 pm
I’m a little belated in posting this October 10th 60 Minutes presentation, but while providing a little SEC fluff, it does describe how computerized stock trading on Wall ... (
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From Guzzo the Contrarian
October 29, 2010 at 9:38 pm
While the stock markets remained flat this week, there was nothing scary about the stock markets this past two months. Everything has progressed as I’ve previously forecast, ... (
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From Guzzo the Contrarian
October 28, 2010 at 10:55 pm
If you look close enough, you can always find something positive in the worst of circumstances. Like they say, every dark cloud has a silver lining. According to Stephen Michael, ... (
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From Guzzo the Contrarian
October 28, 2010 at 3:56 am
Transparency International (TI) defines corruption as the abuse of entrusted power for private gain. This definition encompasses corrupt practices in both the public and private ... (
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From Guzzo the Contrarian
October 21, 2010 at 9:08 pm
You know, I screwed -up. The week is almost over and I totally forgot to mention that this is National Save for Retirement Week 2010. I’m sure that no one wants to be reminded ... (
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From Guzzo the Contrarian
October 21, 2010 at 8:03 pm
Here’s an episode from the Vanguard Perspectives® video series, a short interview with Vanguard’s chief economist, Joe Davis. The case for cautious optimism - In Vanguard’s ... (
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From Guzzo the Contrarian
October 19, 2010 at 6:23 pm
No folks, I don’t make this stuff up. And no, this is not a video excerpt from a Saturday Night Live television program. It’s an actual excerpt from a debate between ... (
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From Guzzo the Contrarian
October 17, 2010 at 5:56 pm
The Phoenix area real estate market just hit an unfortunate record for 2010. According to the September 2010 realty studies resale home market report (pdf) from the W. P. Carey ... (
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From Guzzo the Contrarian
October 9, 2010 at 12:55 am
We are now a foreclosure-based economy. Just a little housing humor from John Stewart and The Daily Show to start out the weekend. But what about the issue of strategic defaults? ... (
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From Guzzo the Contrarian
October 7, 2010 at 9:17 pm
Harvard historian Niall Ferguson’s new book is about the British banker Sigmund Warburg, who valued relationships over transactions, and ethics over getting rich. He speaks ... (
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From Guzzo the Contrarian
October 1, 2010 at 3:08 am
It looks like more and more individual investors are coming to embrace the teachings shared by the Bogleheads, and what I’ve also been preaching on Guzzo the Contrarian for ... (
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September 29, 2010 at 12:42 am
Increased productivity expectations at work got you stressed-out lately? Ain’t nothing like a bear market to bring out the worst in many of us. Luckily, there’s now ... (
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From Guzzo the Contrarian
September 23, 2010 at 5:57 pm
It seems to me that the “markets” were expecting the Federal Open Market Committee to release some sort of “magic bullet” today that would solve all of ... (
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From Guzzo the Contrarian
September 21, 2010 at 4:56 pm
Why trickle down economics doesn’t work. Source: Paper People Jokes
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From Guzzo the Contrarian
September 13, 2010 at 5:01 pm
When this recession first got underway, I mentioned that corporate profits wouldn’t be affected as poorly as many considered, and that stocks were at bargain prices. Why ... (
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From Guzzo the Contrarian
September 11, 2010 at 12:35 am
Well, well, well. I think I would be remiss if I didn’t mention this one aspect of the recession that I didn’t see coming. According to ABC News 15 - More and more ... (
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From Guzzo the Contrarian
September 7, 2010 at 4:10 pm
Retirees simply cannot be without this set of documents, instructions, and statements, says Morningstar’s Director of Personal Finance and senior columnist Christine Benz. ... (
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From Guzzo the Contrarian
September 6, 2010 at 5:13 pm
I think we now all know what happens when Wall Street becomes involved with the government. Just think of what the consequences will be when Wall Street becomes involved in healthcare. ... (
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From Guzzo the Contrarian
September 5, 2010 at 9:00 am
I really like this new PBS television program, Need to Know. They investigate and report things that other news programs seem to dismiss. For example, here’s a report about ... (
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From Guzzo the Contrarian
September 4, 2010 at 4:35 am
From filmmaker, Charles Ferguson (“No End In Sight”), comes INSIDE JOB, the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the 2008 economic crisis. This global financial ... (
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