Yes, I'm still an InvestorGeek! It might seem like only Jason and Christian are blogging lately, but I don't mind being the guest that drops in once in a while. I'm sure many of you have watched or heard of the new Mark Burnett-produced game show called "Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader". If not,...
Read More →The following is a paid review... Finance Markets is a blog written by some folks across the pond. Despite an understandable bias towards European news and posting prices in British pounds, the blog is applicable to investors everywhere. The Finance Markets blog is updated a lot. There are about...
Read More →On days like these, it's good to be 100% cash. I am holding some mutual funds in my IRA, but that was only down a little under 1% today (The only real loser was an S&P ETF I have 25% of my holdings in). However, my personal trading account was sidelined through this mess today. Was there some kind...
Read More →There is a rumour going around that GM might be buying (2) Chrysler. The rumour was based on something things that Zetsche (CEO DaimlerChrysler) said: > Speculation about the future of Chrysler started earlier this week when DaimlerChrysler CEO Dieter Zetsche revealed the future of the money-losing...
Read More →My original version of this blog entry has been deleted because I did find some errors in my spreadsheet. I saw them when I was explaining what I thought I had found while doing my calculations. The new calculations are not as I thought they were, but still some interesting things can be extracted...
Read More →Well not yet, but that is the plan. And I wonder if investors realize the potential. My guess is that Advanced Micro Devices (really their recently bought ATI division) is poised to make a bunch of money putting graphics processors into mobile phones. and this fact is not fully priced into the...
Read More →I am going to review the two books; Profit From Uranium and Profit from China. I want to structure my review in three parts, initial, reading it, and digested the information. Initial: When I first received the books I looked at them and thought, huh that's it! Fifty pages and about a third are...
Read More →I saw an article at MarketWatch that talked about 3G and how it has not lived up to expectations. Well, I could have told you that in 2002. I know that I said that in 2002 because in 2002 I gave a presentation at the Ann Arbor Computing Society entitled "The State of Wireless." In my presentation I...
Read More →I wrote an earlier comment about Microsoft and the Daily Show and how Bill Gates seems to have changed. David commented and I read his story about what he believes will happen regarding Vista. Many people think it is about Google and Apple. I completely disagree! Google will be Google, but this is...
Read More →I was watching TV and saw a new market niche, "rent a demonstrator." Wow times have changed. As the article said it used to be people would demonstrate out of passion. Though with a busy society, and a society that is consumer based, well we are all too busy... They showed this on TV and a student...
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