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$1 trillion coin is nuts but not $25 billion

Posted by Guru on January 10th, 2013

Policy wonks are debating whether a $1 trillion platinum coin would be a clever or insane way for President Obama to play hardball with Republicans in the upcoming debt limit battle.

Here's what you should know about this crazy-sounding idea:

1. A legal loophole gives the Treasury Secretary apparently unlimited authority to mint platinum coins.

By Terry Connelly, dean emeritus of the Ageno School of Business at Golden Gate University

There is a moment in every Road Runner cartoon when Wiley Coyote finds himself standing on thin air having chased his would-be lunch over the cliff — and then he looks down!

Turn saving into a habit

Posted by Guru on June 28th, 2012

Regular savings is one of the surest ways to increase your net worth.

This is part of a special report on 101+ ways to build wealth. In this story, readers and experts weigh in with advice for significantly boosting your savings.

Stick to a budget for just a month. A Canadian study found that people who stuck to a budget had higher net worth than those who didn't have one or had one they didn't follow.

Spain formally became the fourth country to ask for bailout aid from the euro zone on Monday, June 25. Spain’s short-term borrowing costs nearly tripled at auction on Tuesday.  Market participants expect Moody’s to further downgrade Spain’s sovereign debt to Junk status.    

“As we go through the charts of the daily indexes and individual names we see a lot of POL’s (Pullbacks Off Lows). In downtrending markets POLs are the only pattern you need to know for shorting. Those POLs are also the what to watch out for if you are long.”

When It Rains It Pours

Technical analysis, or charting, is the art and science of graphing past price movements of an asset in attempt to divine their next moves. In a world of sophisticated financial analysis and correlations between various arcane assets, charting is often dismissed as voodoo. Despite claims to the contrary, it's a dirty truth of Wall Street that everyone analyzes charts.

Why dividends still beat buybacks

Posted by Guru on March 28th, 2012

His investment style may be hot these days, but Federated fund manager Daniel Peris views it as the oldest way to play the market.

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