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Baltimore — (TFN): Consider using the agro-related sell-off as a buying opportunity, as companies like Monsanto believe the future for genetically engineered crops business is bright. Declines in agro stocks, like Monsanto, were hardly surprising, as they came just days after they hit fresh 52-week highs. But how often do you find stocks like these [...]

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Blogger's Note: Economic Stimulus — last week, the White House turned Obama. Only instead of promising $250 bucks in pocket money, as Obama envisions will kick-start spending and economic expansion, the Bush Administration's proposed "tax rebate" is a little bit bigger. Now, we don't mind tax "rebates". When people can keep more of the money [...]

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'Cars with cheap labor costs couldn’t be manufactured in the third world for a long time because there were no big domestic markets. But now you’ve got two countries; China with a domestic market of about 8 million vehicles a year, and India, which has something over 2 million vehicles a year. Where there are [...]

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"At the core of Ron Paul's economic program are purist libertarian considerations that I find quite endorsable at least in principle." — J. Christoph Amberger
by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore — (TFN): Ideals and reality — in every campaign year, the candidates lay on the first with the same dainty touch as the late Tammy Faye [...]

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Baltimore — (TFN): Is it good news or bad news? TFN's weekly Dollar Bear Peter Schiff was just appointed economic advisor to Ron Paul's grassroots campaign for the nomination as presidential candidate of the GOP.
Peter states: “We need a plan that stimulates savings and production not more of [...]

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by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore — (TFN): "What do you make of the markets today," was the first question I heard when I checked in with the office, after just having landed in Philadelphia last Monday.
"What markets," was my response. After all, thirty-thousand feet above the Atlantic Ocean, few things can bother you — aside [...]

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Baltimore — (TFN): India’s Tata Motors recently unveiled the world’s cheapest car. Tata is also the preferred bidder to take over the up-market brands Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford. Is the company mad, or is there something big going on here? China and India have populations several times those of the US and EU, [...]

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'Probably over the next few months we’ll see some downside volatility in oil and in gold because of the concerns about global growth. Energy more so than gold because the dynamic behind gold has more to do with the declining U.S. dollar and worries about inflation.' — Mike Burnick, editor of Global Market Investor
Baltimore [...]

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"The longer the coal shortage in China and mine closings in South Africa continue, the more bruised you’ll get kicking yourself for not getting into a good coal company in the U.S. or Australia before it's too late." — Stephanie Grimmett
by Stephanie Grimmett
Baltimore – (TFN): Peak oil, huh? How about peak [...]

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"So come along my friends, hike up your skirts and take a line from the Foreign Legion, 'March or die.' That's right, onward to one of the most promising technologies of today… a car that runs on compressed air." — Field Palmer
by Field Palmer, Green Chip Stocks
Baltimore – (TFN): [...]

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"A lot of the negativity spewed by the mainstream media is proving to be overdone or just plain untrue. " – Andrew Snyder
By Andrew Snyder
Denver (TFN): I could not have said it better myself:
"I think this recession mumbo jumbo is way out of line. It is being pushed on the radio and TV, but out [...]

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"The recent carnage in the markets was all down to one man. No, not Alan Greenspan, but Jerome Kerviel, a trader at French bank Societe Generale… It’s an appealing idea… But it’s also a complete fiction." — John Stepek
by John Stepek, Money Week
Baltimore and London – [...]

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"Wall Street’s reputation, once its greatest asset, is also in jeopardy. Just as Detroit lost its reputation for high quality cars, bankrupted dotcoms and worthless subprime debt are creating similar problems for Wall Street. You can’t expect to keep your customers if you continually sell them shoddy merchandise." — Peter Schiff
by [...]

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'For those who want to engineer spending, the problem is that the people who receive the funds may not decide to spend it immediately, if at all. They may, god forbid, elect to pay down existing debt or most perniciously, actually save it instead. Just recently, the Treasury Department launched a program to streamline Social [...]

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Baltimore — (TFN): A coming commodity crash is brewing. Drops in US consumer spending are translating into falling base metals prices. Copper is already down 20%. Could oil and gold be next? Mike Burnick of Global Market Investor explains how to safely trade the trend.
Click here to watch the financial video and find out more.
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"Now that the markets have gotten whacked, every Tom, Dick and Harry with a press pass is trying to prove his brute bearishness — and the whipping boy of choice is emerging markets." — Justice Litle
by Justice Litle, Taipan Daily
Baltimore – (TFN): One of the small pleasures of visiting London is [...]

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"Despite attempts on the part of governments around the world to increase efficiency and stimulate domestic production, and efforts by consumers now shocked by gasoline costs well over $3 per gallon here in the States, global oil consumption is set to continue increasing in 2008." — Sam [...]

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"The condition is creating a great buying opportunity. All sorts of stocks are selling at great discounts. " – Andrew Snyder
By Andrew Snyder
Denver (TFN) — I am sick of sitting on my butt. Over the last 36 hours I have managed to criss-cross the continent. I started in Juneau, flew across Canada into the nation’s capital, [...]

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A Today's Financial News Research Report: "Bank stock valuations are collapsing. But contrarian investors can pick up excellent bargains in rock-solid banking equities whose balance sheets have been unaffected by the subprime melt-down." — J. Christoph Amberger
by Stephanie Grimmett and J. Christoph Amberger, TodaysFinancialNews.com
Today's Financial News feed provides an independent and practical perspective on [...]

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Baltimore — (TFN): Bank stock valuations are collapsing. But contrarian investors can pick up excellent bargains in rock-solid banking equities whose balance sheets have been unaffected by the subprime melt-down.
Click here to watch the financial video and find out more.
Contrarian bank stock to buy now: TFN's Hot Stock Pick of the Week: Play Now [...]