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brucedoe replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 3:20 PM

Re: OT: Sweet spot for salt?

My late brother (a research physician in internal medicine) many years ago said that only 1 out of 7 people have blood pressure sensitive to salt, but the difficulty of identifying those sensitive is so difficult that they recommend a low salt diet [more]

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brucedoe replied to the Help with this STUPID computer! board. 3:30 PM

Re: Windows and iPad?

pauleckler

You can buy a keyboard for iPads and they work well. We have one.

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brucedoe replied to the Help with this STUPID computer! board. 3:15 PM

Re: IPad

MurrayS

That's sort of like asking if a truck is better than a sports car. A truck can certainly do everything a sports car can and more, ...

Interesting that you should have written that phrase. Actually, once I wrote a [more]

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brucedoe replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 2:52 PM

Re: The sequestering of money

jeff

Interesting questions. It seems to me that the markets are goosey so any news of a change by the Fed is likely to affect the markets, at least short term. At a P/E of 18.96, it is high but alarmingly so, and the dividend is within a [more]

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brucedoe replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 3:29 PM

Re: Control Panel: Happy Days are here again!

On the "worst" trading day this last week (Monday), 9.5% of the stocks on the NYSE hit 52-week daily highs. On the best day (Wednesday), 16% of the stocks on the NYSE hit new daily 52-week highs. If you aren't making money in this market, [more]

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brucedoe replied to the Real Estate Inv. Trusts: REITs board. 2:26 PM

Re: Vornado warns of bubble: net seller

We buy a one ounce gold coin (usually a Kruggerrand) once a year, usually in mid-January. I started this because I have kept hearing that gold was going to hit $5,000/oz. Perhaps it will some year or decade, but we buy the gold "just in [more]

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brucedoe replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 3:58 PM

Re: Bond holders win Pensioners lose

I, for one, thought that Solyendra was a good idea (and still do) because, among the advantages of the cylindrical panels,* it did not use the glass used in all other solar electric panels; however, then the Chinese lowered the price of solar glass [more]

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brucedoe posted to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 3:49 PM

West, TX, Disaster Relief (OT)

Donations for disaster relief for the Boston Marathon disaster have gotten a lot of press. There is little note, however, of a disaster relief fund for the West, TX, disaster which actually was bigger, both in terms of deaths and physical damage. If [more]

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brucedoe replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 3:27 PM

Re: More QE- Higher Stocks: Cause or Effect?

Most businesses borrow money to operate by, say, buying inventory or capital equipment. So if interest rates fall, companies can borrow money and even if revenues remain constant, their earnings increase because they pay less interest. So I can see [more]

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brucedoe replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 2:54 PM

Re: How could this even be?

waterfell

The low Cs-137 amounts in people is not because it has decayed away (the half-life is 30 yrs), but that it is expelled from the body with a half-life of about 70 days.* Furthermore, it is not a "bone-seeker" element and [more]

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brucedoe replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 1:51 PM

Re: The BEST of Wall Street

I did watch the 60 min. piece and was impressed. Because our government has become dysfunctional, we need the super wealthy to pick up the slack. Of course the Gates Foundation is able to do projects at government sized effort. But many others are [more]

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brucedoe replied to the Real Estate Inv. Trusts: REITs board. 1:19 PM

Re: Part 2 -Bulls make money, Bears make money, but

Your post is fine with me except for:
Speaking of interest rates, Loyd Blankfein stated in a Thursday interview that one of his biggest concerns with the market was that any unexpected spike in interest rates, ala 1994, would spook the [more]

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brucedoe posted to the Help with this STUPID computer! board. 4:07 PM

What Happens?

If you click on the following URL:

HTTP://WWW.BRITANNICA.COM/EBCHECKED/TOPIC/238402/GONDWANA

you actually get:

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brucedoe replied to the Dividend Growth Investing board. 2:10 PM

Re: AAPL as a DGI stock?

jack

A sad story.

b

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brucedoe replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 1:53 PM

Re: Inventories LEI, employment lags

Defense spending plunged 34.4 percent for the month.

I think maybe the sequester had something to do with this. Our oldest son is a computer engineer in communications with ATT, and he said that government contract opportunities have [more]

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brucedoe replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 1:40 PM

Re: Just Checking on the Rabid Right....

And don't forget - when it comes to the IRS, you're always "Guilty until you can prove (to their sole and exclusive satisfaction) that you're innocent."

To be serious for a moment, there is something called the Taxpayer [more]

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brucedoe replied to the Real Estate Inv. Trusts: REITs board. 1:25 PM

Re: ROIC Reports Solid First Quarter 2013 Result

Me too. We are overweight on ROIC.

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brucedoe replied to the Real Estate Inv. Trusts: REITs board. 1:20 PM

Re: Part 1 - Bulls make money, Bears make money,

At a P/E of 18.66, the P/E is only slightly high. We have not had the blowoff stage yet.

The S&P50 quarterly dividend in march was $0.34. The last time it was this high was March of 1997!

The DJIA P/E is only 16.41 [more]

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brucedoe posted to the Dividend Growth Investing board. 4:25 PM

Buffet Is For The IBM Buyback

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100690842

Personally, I think nearly all buybacks are a waste of money, but who am I to argue with the Oracle of Omaha.

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brucedoe replied to the Dividend Growth Investing board. 4:21 PM

Re: AAPL as a DGI stock?

jack

My memory was that Kodak was early in the digital camera field, but for some reason they couldn't make it the dominant brand. Even if you do the right thing, it can be difficult.

brucedoe