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Warren Buffett and the Business of Life: Part 2 of 7

Alice Schroeder | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books

Read More: Berkshire Hathaway, Excerpt, Economics, Books, Stock Market, Economic Crisis, Business News, Warren Buffett, Financial Crisis, The Snowball, Alice Schroeder, Business, Books News
Alice Schroeder

Buffett would always love reading newspapers, but his investing was tightly focused on simple businesses that were as close to immortal as possible. Newspapers no longer qualified.

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Selling Panic Could Rock Stocks

Dan Dorfman | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Economic Slowdown, Obama Stock Market, Economic Downturn, Gdp-Growth, Gdp, A. Silver Associates, Stock Market, Stock Market Rebound, Business News
Dan Dorfman

Go figure this crazy market following another bout of schizophrenia. First came terrific Thursday, then wicked Friday, as big money was made and even bigger money was lost.

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25 Best Performing S&P 500 Stocks Since Obama's Election (RANKINGS, CHART)

Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Stocks, Stock Market, Barack Obama, One Year Later, Best Stocks, Business News

And the winner is... Ford Motors. Of all of the stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 index, Ford has shown the biggest leap in value since Presiden...

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Meltdown Home Run Hitter on the Future

Diane Francis | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Stock Market, Financial Meltdown, Meltdown, Business News
Diane Francis

CEO Prem Watsa discusess how Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. of Toronto has not only weathered the greatest financial storm since the Depression, but has profited mightily.

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Short-Selling (VIDEO): Did It Contribute To The Market's Collapse?

Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Short-Selling, Stocks, Market Crash, Stock Market, Selling Stocks, Steven Figlewski, Business News

Let's get our bearings here. What is short-selling? NYU Professor of Finance Steven Figlewski can explain: "You sell the stock with the expectation, ...

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While Larry Summers Dreams, You Can Act

Robert Lenzner | Posted 10.31.2009 | Business

Read More: Larry Summers, Wall Street, Stock Market, Equities, Banking Crisis, Financial Crisis, Executive Pay, Business News
Robert Lenzner

What can an investor do? For advice, I sat down with Marc Harris of RBC, one of the few large banks that maneuvered a clear course through the economic turmoil.

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This Recession Couldn't Be Any Overer

Ross Hyzer | Posted 10.27.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Economic Recovery, Stock Market, Economy, Recession, Economic Crisis, Comedy News
Ross Hyzer

At first, it looked like the recession was going to be a disaster, but now it's is over, so in the end, all's well that ends well. Right?

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Dow 10,000 - Trick or Treat?

Loral Langemeier | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Market Manipulation, Halloween, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Stock Market, Jim Cramer, Living News
Loral Langemeier

I love Halloween. how often do you get to say "Boo!" without looking the fool? Oh, but wait a minute. If you're the Dow Jones Index, you get to say "Boo! I fooled you" often.

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Tips on How to Reframe the Current Economy

Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Profiteering, Guidance, Depression, Potential, Opportunity, Tele-Seminars, Money, Economy, What Is Enough, Collaboration, Unlimited Potential, Beliefs, Let Yourself Go, Leverage, Sufficiency, Economic Climate, Jack Canfield, Value, Coaching, Enough, Profit, Investment, Intuition, Awakening Coaching, Financial Crisis, Stock Market, Bubble, Real Estate, Customers, Finances, Living News
Arjuna Ardagh

When it is easy to make money just by buying a house and waiting, there is not much incentive to look deeper into yourself -- to find out what you were born to give, what your unique talents are.

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Moral of Insider-Trading Bust: Only Fools Try to Beat the Street

Henry Blodget | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Investing, Insider Trading, Raj Rajaratnam, Stock Market, Business News
Henry Blodget

There's a saying in poker: If you don't know who the patsy is at the table, it's you. Next time you feel like bellying up to the Wall Street poker table, therefore, ask yourself again who the sucker is.

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The Art Market -- One Year Later

Stephanie Adamowicz | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York

Read More: Art Market, Recovery, Frieze Art Fair, Stock Market, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Economic Crisis, Contemporary Art, Bear Stearns Collapse, Recession, Fiac, New York News
Stephanie Adamowicz

When the Dow closed above 10,000 points last week and the Frieze art fair opened in London, art market observers were presented with an opportune time to take stock.

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Congressional Campaign Accounts Invested In Stock Market Boosted By Wall Street Bounce

Roll Call | Alex Knott | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Political Campaigns, Market-Surge, Wall Street Surge, Midterm Elections, Wall Street, 2010 Elections, Stock Market, Joe Barton, Spencer Bachus, Congressional Campaign Funding, Campaign Financing, Politics News

The recent surge on Wall Street has created a windfall for some Congressional campaigns that invested their political contributions in the stock marke...

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Jim Cramer's "Call Of A Lifetime," Revisited

Henry Blodget | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Investing, Stock Market, Jim Cramer, Jim Cramer Call of a Lifetime, Jim Cramer Stock Picks, Business News
Henry Blodget

Jim Cramer's stock "call of a lifetime" came 53 weeks ago, on October 6, 2008. But was it really so wise?

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The Dow and the Down and Out

Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Brave New Films, Bernie Sanders, Dow Jones, Economy, Senator Sanders Unfiltered, Unemployment, Stock Market, Business News
Sen. Bernie Sanders

The top 1 percent owns more wealth than the bottom 90 percent. CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.

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Wall Street Treasury Complex is the Problem

Diane Francis | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, FInancial Markets, Trade, Economy, Stock Market, Banking Crisis, Banks, Free Trade, Protectionism, Capitalism, Barack Obama, Business News
Diane Francis

An examination of the causes of the financial meltdown and proposals for reform to prevent new catastrophic bubbles from forming and bursting.

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Dow Hits 10,000, Unemployment Nears 10 Percent

Posted 10.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Dow 10, Dow Jones Index, Wall Street, Stock Market, 000, Dow vs. Unemployment, Dow and Stock Market, Dow and Unemployment, Dow 10k, Business News

Scroll down for chart For the first time in over a year, the Dow Jones Industrial Index briefly hit 10,000. While much of the economy is still lang...

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Fifteen Amazing Stock Market Charts

Henry Blodget | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Business, Stock Market, Graphs, Bull Market, Bear Market, Business News
Henry Blodget

There's no way to really understand the meaning of the investment mantra "stocks for the long run," unless you understand how long the long run can really be. And how long can it be? Long.

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Hot Timer Sees Stock Buying Stampede

Dan Dorfman | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Market, Financial Crisis, Bull Market, Stock Market, Bear Market, Business News
Dan Dorfman

Real worry has a very short half-life on Wall Street of say three to six months. After every giant decline, there's an enormous rebound and the thing for investors to keep in mind is that we're still in one.

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The Dominance of the Financial Sector Has Become a Mortal Danger to Our Economic Security

Robert Creamer | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: President Obama, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Financial Sector, Credit Card Regulation, Financial Crisis, Pay Day Loan Industry, Economic Growth, Stock Market, Deriviatives, Breaking News, Financial Regulation, Politics News
Robert Creamer

The financial sector, including the big insurance companies, has morphed into a cancer growing on our economy -- a cancer that could easily strangle our prospects for long-term economic security.

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If You're A Bull, What Do You Buy?

Dan Dorfman | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Jonathan Moreland, Morgan Stanley, Walt Disney Stock, Wall Street Regulation, Wall Street, Stock Prices, Walt Disney Company, Stock Market, Benjamin Winburne, Business News
Dan Dorfman

Keeping in mind that the market has already ballooned some 50% in the past seven months -- meaning you just could be late to the party -- what do you buy?

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Carl Icahn: Markets "Schizophrenic," Economy "On A Precipice"

Posted 10.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Investing, Carl Icahn, Cnbc, Stock Market, Financial Crisis, Recession, Business News

In an interview with CNBC today, billionaire investor Carl Icahn warned that the economy is still "on a precipice." Because the market is acting "schi...

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Is Strong Wrong ... Or Weak Right?

Dan Dorfman | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Standard and Poor, Bull Market, Economic Recovery, Stock Market, Bear Market, Business News
Dan Dorfman

The bull-bear debate rages on, but no two ways about it: the bull has firmly grabbed the Wall Street reins. The bears are still out there hollering fire, but the fact of life is no one is paying any attention to the dire warnings.

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"Anything Goes" Capitalism Destroys Companies and Workers' Lives

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Simmons Mattress, Private Equity Firm, Private Equity, Scott A. Schoen, Eleanor Roosevelt, Usw, United Steelworkers, Anything Goes, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Standard & Poor’s, Fdr, Cole Porter, Max Gordon, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Simmons, Noble Rogers, New York Times, 1929 Crash, Stock Market, Thomas H. Lee Partners, Rober Hellyer, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

Anything Goes capitalism workers' lives, but it sure does work for the private equity firms. They made around $750 million in profits from the now-indebted and bankrupt Simmons.

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What Does The Economy Have To Do With The Market?: Barry Ritholtz

The Big Picture | Barry Rithholtz | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Stock Market, Joseph Stiglitz, Recession, Economy, Business News

Far be it from me to challenge a 2-time Nobel prize winner, but sometimes, indeed, quite often, markets decouple from the economic fundamentals. I ...

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8 Waving Red Flags Hoisted

Dan Dorfman | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Obama Ioc, Wall Street, Olympics, Stock Market, Economy, Rio De Janeiro, Chicago Olympics, Obama Olympics, Business News
Dan Dorfman

On the surface, the U.S.'s failure to win the 2016 Olympic games is no big deal. But others see it as indicative of problems down the road. Is the IOC's decision a red flag the market should be wary of?

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