jackcrow

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jackcrow replied to the Value Hounds board. 11:01 PM

Re: Can 2 senators end TBTF?

When did Glass-Steagall die?

1982 or 1983 was the beginning of the Reagen deregulation of the banking system. The final nail in the coffin occurred under Clinton when he and the democrat leaning congress chose to end Glass-Steagall [more]

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jackcrow replied to the Bonds & Fixed Income Investments board. 10:39 PM

Re: Worst case for bond funds

MisterFungi,

I agree diversity is the way to go and fear driven investing is absolutely the worst kind of investing virtually guaranteeing a beating.

jack

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jackcrow replied to the Value Hounds board. 6:19 PM

Re: Can 2 senators end TBTF?

DTM,

But I would be interested to hear what you and others think of the Dodd-Frank bank resolution mechanism.

Put shortly we now have an orderly way to bilk the taxpayers for rescuing a bank too big to fail. We have not [more]

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jackcrow replied to the Value Hounds board. 6:09 PM

Re: Can 2 senators end TBTF?

Denny,

The issue is limiting the size of the bank so that it can fail safely!!!!

The argument for the mega bank is that it can then find some sort of synergy across its investment bank, commercial, bank, full service bank and [more]

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jackcrow replied to the Bonds & Fixed Income Investments board. 5:51 PM

Re: Worst case for bond funds

Good previous answers.

Bond funds are basically a business that invests in bonds. If business is good the share holders do well, if business is bad the share holders do poorly. Its almost like investing in a commodity company like X (united [more]

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jackcrow replied to the Dividend Growth Investing board. 10:24 PM

Re: I just love it

LD,

but, but, but everyone is saying that they get more value out of the total if they break it up . . .

Maybe they are right, whoop! .08 a stub baby!

jack

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jackcrow replied to the Value Hounds board. 7:37 PM

Re: What would you do?

No bonds kicks out all the target funds.

70 30 split or something like that between the S&P500 and the Russell because you will gain little advantage adding in QQQ because most of those stocks are in the S&P.

I wouldn't [more]

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jackcrow replied to the iPIG Portfolio board. 10:53 AM

Re: iPIG Portfolio FAQ v. 1.0.1

looks good enough

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jackcrow replied to the Investing Beginners board. 9:33 AM

Re: Trailing Stop Loss question

You mentioned it doesn't move, but isn't that the difference between a "trailing" stop loss and a regular stop loss?

No a "trailing stop loss" is one that you make trail, its an investing term not a brokers tool. [more]

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jackcrow replied to the Energy & Utilities board. 9:09 AM

Re: Wind “backup power” myth

Interesting map. I found it odd that Wisconsin was 25% while it was surrounded by states in the 30's. Having lived in the mid-west I'm guessing that their mills must be poorly located relative to the choices their neighbors made.

jack

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jackcrow replied to the Investing Beginners board. 10:35 PM

Re: Trailing Stop Loss question

A trailing stop lose is a value you place on the order. I don't know of a broker that allows you to use 25%, you have to calculate that yourself and then place the order. Therefor it doesn't move. If your $10 stock doubles to $20 your stop loss is [more]

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jackcrow replied to the Value Hounds board. 10:21 PM

Re: Passionate Investing

Rich,

It doesn't have to be a pitfall.

True, and sometimes a falling knife cuts the hand trying to catch it. There is nothing wrong with the thesis that markets overreact and it pays to be cautious when folks are screaming [more]

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jackcrow replied to the iPIG Portfolio board. 2:25 PM

Re: Yield

kelbon,

Agreed, its about the investing thesis, the portfolio thesis and the parallel risk management approach. There is risk to the income investor if they wait, they lose the current price, they lose the near term income. The trade off is [more]

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jackcrow replied to the iPIG Portfolio board. 12:23 PM

Re: Yield

kelbon,

All the same, if your focus is dividend yield this stock is yielding about 3% currently and it is expected that the dividend will rise in step with earnings over the next few years at around 7.5% annually.

This is [more]

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jackcrow replied to the Value Hounds board. 12:14 PM

Re: PIKE underwritten offering

You are probably going to have to dig into the past, maybe as far as 2005 - 2006, to get a feel for what is going on here. This is a peculiar secondary offering, the company not only doesn't receive any money from this offering but is actually buying [more]

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jackcrow posted to the Value Hounds board. 12:02 PM

Passionate Investing

Robert Trivers is a Prof of is and Evolutionary Biologist, often considered one of the great thinkers of our time and his recent passion has been reconciling/researching self deception.

Interesting tidbits from his research:
- We will [more]

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jackcrow replied to the iPIG Portfolio board. 11:02 AM

Re: Yield

Chuck,

You may want to revisit GIS. Because they are a commodity based enterprise the time to invest is often counter intuitive. They have managed to pass the additional costs of their inputs onto, at least in some part, to their customers. [more]

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jackcrow posted to the Energy & Utilities board. 2:45 PM

What part of the environmnet do we sacrifice?

It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground.

Killing these iconic [more]

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jackcrow replied to the Investing Beginners board. 8:11 PM

Re: New to investing

This would be a good place to start.

http://www.aaii.com/

Beyond that you really don't want to be part of a club without knowing the members, investing style of the club, cost of buy in [more]

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jackcrow posted to the Boeing Company board. 10:22 PM

Hypersonic flight record

Boeing Co's X-51A Waverider made history this week when it achieved the longest hypersonic flight by a jet-fuel powered aircraft, flying for 3-1/2 minutes at five times the speed of sound, the U.S. Air Force said on Friday.
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