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Apple Stock Good Investment or Passing Fad

Finance Gourmet on October 29th, 2010

People are always asking me if I think certain stocks are a good investment. There is a flaw in the question, but we’ll get to that in a minute. Right now, let’s get right to the real question people are always asking me these days. Is Apple Stock a good investment? What people mean when [...]

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Finance Gourmet on September 27th, 2010

Now that the new Facebook movie is coming out, even more people are going to be clamoring for information about just what Facebook is, what the Facebook company is like, and, of course, how to invest in Facebook. The catch is, there is no Facebook. Not a Facebook company you can invest in at least. [...]

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Finance Gourmet on June 15th, 2010

Recently, we talked about how Warren Buffet’s Congressional testimony about Moody’s responsibility for causing the banking crisis and stock market crash by rating collateral mortgage options (CMO) triple-A up until it was already obvious to everyone that these investments were in trouble, was wrong headed. Today, the ratings agencies Fitch and Moody’s gave us all [...]

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Finance Gourmet on June 14th, 2010

I am always a bit curious when I read a cover story headline like the one on Kiplinger Magazine this month. It says 18 Ways To Earn 5% or More On Your Money. A lot of readers will make an assumption that goes along with that headline that they are talking about low-risk investments or [...]

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Finance Gourmet on May 18th, 2010

There are plenty of other things Yahoo gets from buying Associated Content, not the least of which is a big fat swath of Internet real estate that ranks obscenely high in Google search results and Bing search results. A great deal of the traffic generated from these high ranking searches is monetized via, you guessed it, Google AdSense which pays content publishers based upon ads placed by Google on those websites. Yahoo, can now switch out those Google Ads and replace them with their own Yahoo Ads.

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Finance Gourmet on May 23rd, 2009

Congress made a new rule for 2009 for people with 529 plans. You can change your investments twice this year, but should you?

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Finance Gourmet on May 11th, 2009

Ok, here it comes. After the government released the results of its stress tests, banks are scrambling to come up with ways to raise huge amounts.  It seems that the government money that was a much vaunted and absolutely necessary lifeline to banks has become tainted now that it comes with, horror of horror, strings [...]

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