Articles for Business & Finance

EXCERPT: The first article in this series,  48% Annual Rate of Return!?!  How...? suggested that, for the Average American, one possible profitable approach to investing is to work with industry sectors and the mutual funds that represent them.  Four case studies were presented.  These case studies are actual histories of success for a period from November of 2005 to January of 2006.  They are recent and real.
In this article I wll explain in detail what the...

EXCERPT: It amazes me that in today's work place "Work Ethic" has been lost. It used to be that people took pride in their daily tasks and strived to be the best. Not just for themselves but the feeling of pride when they came home to their families knowing they were setting a good example. It felt good to come home from a hard days work and rest their head on the pillow and know that they earned every penny they made. The customer used to feel a genuine...

EXCERPT: The Average American gets burned in the stock market because they don’t have a pipeline into a company to see what is coming down the pike.  The Big Boys on the inside have already discounted the stock by the time you and I learn that the FDA is going to approve a new drug, for example. 
I’m not one of the Big Boys.  But I’m not your Average American, either.  I just recently made an annual rate of return of about: 45% on computer stocks in 36...

EXCERPT: George Bush is lobbying for an H-1B visa pandemic to hit the skilled workers of this country.  Following the State of the Union speech, George Bush has been stumping around the country pushing his own brand of snake oil.
 
In Maplewood, Minnesota, for example, he addressed a room full of workers from 3M Company.  Although the audience was probably screened for party-line loyalty, it nevertheless seemed a strange venue to be calling for Congress to take the lid off of...

EXCERPT: That the Federal Reseve Bank is a for profit private banking entity? That the IRS is a collection agency for the Federal Reserve with HQ in Puerto Rico not part of the Federal government? That our entire debt is FIAT/ That whenever the commodity for indirect exchange is fiat, not real value, that there is no economic liberty and with that there is no liberty? When was the last time the government told us the truth? Has anyone held the government accountable? Why not? ...

EXCERPT: It has just been revealed that Google has taken a huge hit on the stock market “… after it rebuffed a federal subpoena seeking data on consumer searches.  The Bush Administration says it just wants the info to support its push for on-line child-protection laws to crack down on porn.  Yahoo, AOL, and Microsoft have complied with the subpoenas.” (IBD’s Top Ten, Investor’s Business Daily, Monday special, January 23, 2006).
 
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EXCERPT: How To Grow Your Business Many small to medium sized businesses have a roster of financially strong customers that can be leveraged. They may have yet to discover that their business can actually capitalize on their own customer base through a process called factoring. In commercial transactions, goods are typically sold on credit. The buyer may have 30, 60 or even 90 days to pay for a product or service. Competitive Edge Offering credit makes a producer more...