whateverdude

Since when are Art Bell fans the majority?

Wow Really Geesh, next they’ll be requiring proof that fire can melt steel support beams before issuing building permits

To make the statement that many blacks use entitlement programs in itself is not racist but to say that many African Americans use entitlement because they are black is a racist statement in my view. A statement of fact is one thing but using a statement to disparage a race is another. You have to know what’s truly in ones heart to know the difference.

Dude your Avatar is giving me brain seizures!

Man, I do not know how you guys make money picking individual stocks. I am a complete failure at it. The only individual stocks I made money on 15 years ago were CISCO and Philip mo. Since then I have been sticking to index funds and ETF sector and index stocks/bonds and have done a lot better. It's still tough for me to beat the S&P on the stock side.

yeah, and those same five jurors later must have served on the OJ trail!

"The B word set me up"

Over 90% of African Americans strongly support Obama. Does that make them racist?

How is taking something to give to someone else charity ?

Oh my god! how can anyone watch NBC news anymore especially the morning show. Puff after puff on the Obamas and Dems and slam after slam on Palin and the Rep. even in their "hard news" stories. How embarrassing for them.

some Moveon.org types are crashing that party.

Yes, risk frightens and confuses me. I Like to make lots money with very low risk but going forward it looks like i'll have to risk more to make more. So, I was seeing if anyone else here is taking a risk on high yield these days even though its scary.

Ok i'm confused than.....but what am I confused about?

Is anyone here putting money into High Yield Corp. bonds right now? Junk bonds scare the hell out of me! In general stocks and bonds seem a bit over priced for me right now, but I think you can make some cash right now in junk. What do you think?

Um.......yeah

For what it’s worth most of the anal-ysts are saying sell the S&P at 1200-1290. We’re almost there! So if you get in now you’re in for the long term.

I use ETF (exchange traded funds) bonds and stocks. Stay away from single stocks and bonds, unless you like to gamble and know what your doing. Weight them accordingly to your retirement horizon. On the bond side: keep in mind that interest rates will be going up within the next year or 2 so keep to short term bonds or bonds with a low durations. High yield corporate bonds can earn you a lot right now but they are high risk. GNMA bonds are pretty safe. I like PIMCO and Vanguard bonds. On the stock side: twenty five percent of your stock holdings should be in foreign stocks and currency. Emerging markets like VWO, developed markets like EAF index. I also like EWC,EWZ,EPP,EWS,EWH. I think the real growth going forward is outside the US. I like VB for small caps. DBC, MOO,XME, OIH,GLD ETP for commodity/resources. I also like high dividend yield ETF's. I like GBT for large cap overseas exposure and good dividend yield. XLV for health play. Remember in the past it was hard to beat the S&P index unless you were a day trader or put all your eggs in one or 2 stocks and get lucky. Most people will brag about their hits and never about all their failures.

Gingrich is a Smart man, bet he could run circles around Obama in the facts and figures department. I think he was “polarizing” not for the trumped up ethics charges but because he came off as an arrogant pompous ass and the media could not stand him. Back then he had that little know it all smile that needed to be punched straight! All but one of the ethics charges brought forth by the Dem witch hunt were dropped and that one pales in comparison to the tax evaders Obama hired. It’s amazing but the stuff the Dems wanted to get Gingrich on back then would be laughed at now. Both sides waste our $ and time with witch hunts like this. It's just RED meat for their base.

Why what did he say about this? Lets face it, access and use of the internet is like access and use of the gas, electric, water ect. It’s a utility and we’ll all have to pay for what we use but just like the other utilities it needs some form of regulation to prevent content manipulation by ISP's

Bad news for us As much as I hate government regulation and expansion, some is needed here. I don’t like the idea of ISP’s controlling the information spigot. Turning the bandwidth spigot up for things they want us to see and down for things they don’t or have no intere$t in.