Archive for August 31st, 2009
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"No More Smoke and Mirrors": The Internet Isn’t for Investing AnymorePosted by: yahootechticker in Yahoo Tech TickerJames Altucher, managing partner of Formula Capital, is a true believer in the Internet’s transformative powers and fondly remembers investing during the 1990’s dot.com bubble.But those days are long gone and Altucher now believes “the Internet is de
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Infrastructure Stocks: The Next Bubble of "Mammoth Proportions," Says AltucherPosted by: yahootechticker in Yahoo Tech TickerBrace yourselves. Only a year after the housing and credit bubble officially burst with the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, a new “bubble of mammoth proportions” is starting to grow, says James Altucher, managing partner, Formula Capital.Bubble 3.0 Stocks stumbled Monday morning, following another overnight dive by China’s Shanghai Composite and another weekend of stories about how the rally has come “too far, too fast.”Even the
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What the Wireless Industry Will Tell the Feds, the Wired.com Interview (Pt. 2)Posted by: wiredtechbiz in Wired Tech BizIn the second installment of a three-part interview, the wireless carrier’s top lobbyist explains why openness rules that protect broadband would harm smartphones.
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Scientists work on ethanol comebackPosted by: wcfcouriernewsfeed in Cedar Valley BusinessThere’s no doubting the challenges ethanol faces these days.
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Hog farmers struggle for survivalPosted by: wcfcouriernewsfeed in Cedar Valley BusinessWATERLOO — The year 1998 still seems like a bad dream for hog farmers.
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Going gluten-free comes with hefty costsPosted by: wcfcouriernewsfeed in Cedar Valley BusinessWATERLOO — Nicole Simmerman, 11, has her own side of the kitchen stocked with her own food and furnished with her own toaster. She doesn’t have issues sharing with her family, she has celiac disease — an allergy to wheat gluten. The problem of the burgeoning government debt is mainly political, but the adverse consequences may be economic. The trouble is that we don’t know what those consequences may be, when they may occur or even whether they will occur. Without some impending calamity, politicians of both parties recoil from doing anything unpopular that might bring the budget into balance over, say, the next six or seven years. The idea of anticipating and preempting future problems is not on their agenda. As weak stocks rally and speculators take control, there are reasons to believe the market could be in for a pullback. But I’m not betting on it — at least not yet. Despite the market’s rebound and the recession’s likely end, dangers still lurk for stocks. Among them: real estate and interest rates. Many universities replaced loans with grants and otherwise worked to make college more affordable. But that was before once-hefty endowment funds started shrinking. |
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