Pump and Dump Stock Schemes

Posted on June 13, 2007

When I keep getting lots and lots of spam emails that make the same basic offer, I know one thing’s for sure: A lot of people are falling for it. I don’t see much spam any more telling me that I’ve won the lottery, though I do still get a few that want me to secretly help move a few million from Nigeria into my bank

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Quantum Mechanics and Investing

Posted on December 13, 2006

Quantum Mechanics and Investing Physics was not an easy course for me, and although I got an A (one of very few) I must admit I don’t remember studying quantum mechanics in school. Perhaps it had not yet been discovered – way back then. Quantum mechanics has something to do with really, really small particles – smaller than atoms. Apparently there are some things that are

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The Only Thing We Have to Fear

Posted on January 15, 2003

The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself Franklin Roosevelt said that at his first inaugural address when the country was in the depths of the great depression. That depression was deflationary, and right now, this economy has businesses fighting the problems of deflation again. Our current economy is in no where near the sad shape of the 1930’s when banks failed en-masse and

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