Archive for November, 2009
Next Entries »Liz Pulliam Weston – Debt: And you think you’ve got it bad?
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009Interesting article by Liz Pulliam Weston over on MoneyCentral titled, Debt: And you think you’ve got it bad? The article compares the United States’ bankruptcy system to other systems around the world. People in the U.S. have it made in comparison. For instance, check out the Islamic system: You also can get loans in Muslim [...]
Reader Question on How to Determine How Your Investments Are Doing
Monday, November 2nd, 2009The following comment was left on this post from last week: Have a question: What reasonable standards should investors use to measure how well or poorly that they are doing? I’m sure that an answer would include “it depends” but if so, depends on what? We are about 10% under our 12.31.07 balances and we [...]
Companies Are Stockpiling Cash
Monday, November 2nd, 2009Interesting article in this morning’s WSJ about how companies are stockpiling cash: In the second quarter, the 500 largest nonfinancial U.S. firms, by total assets, held about $994 billion in cash and short-term investments, or 9.8% of their assets, according a Wall Street Journal analysis of corporate filings. That is up from $846 billion, or [...]
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