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"To the U.S. economy and to investors in U.S. companies, the dollars current spiral is much closer to a strand of DNA - the spiral of life." — Martin Hutchinson
by Martin Hutchinson
Baltimore – (TFN): When some commentators see how steadily the U.S. dollar has declined against a basket of key [...]

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“The amount of money surrounding this potential landmark deal is staggering. Comcast has pledged up to $1 billion. Time Warner will toss in $500 million. Other operators would fork over somewhere between $100 million and $200 million. ” – Andrew Snyder
By Andrew Snyder
Baltimore (TFN) — What do you do when the nation’s banks have [...]

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“Few analysts know with any certainty whether that sharp jump will continue… whether now is a time to jump in with both feet… or whether the surge will cool on the heels of valuations.” — Mike Caggeso
by Mike Caggeso, Money Morning
Baltimore – (TFN): Minutes after the Dept. of Justice [...]

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by Andrew Snyder
Baltimore — (TFN): I must be some kind of nerd or something. Every day, about an hour before my alarm is set to jolt me awake, I am out of bed staring at the TV screen through one eye and reading the Journal through the other.
Growing up, I used [...]

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“When it became clear that Countrywide’s aggressive lending policies had left it with more junk debt on its books than it could dump on careless institutional buyers, shares of Countrywide fell faster than you can say ‘no-down-payment, stated-income, negative-amortization, adjustable-rate mortgage.’ Shares of the Fed are suffering [...]

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"Companies may lose up to $1.7 billion in productivity as more than 37 million U.S. workers - ranging from mail room employees to the executives who actually run the companies - will take part in NCAA "Final Four" basketball pools." — William Pantalon
by William Pantalon
Baltimore – (TFN): When you consider [...]

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"The current economic situation is kind of like adding dead fish to fertilizer. It stinks right now. It’s hard to bear, but it’s going to benefit us all." — Andrew Snyder
This is taken from the Smart Trading Action Alert video interview with Andrew Snyder.
by Laura Cadden
Baltimore — (TFN): Laura Cadden: After years of record revenues [...]

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"Right now the big concern is whether a potential new financial crisis in Great Britain - spawned by the ‘St. Patrick’s Day Massacre’ - will make the jump across the ocean and infect the U.S. financial markets." — Keith Fitz-Gerald
by Keith Fitz-Gerald
Baltimore – (TFN): With the recent market collapse, [...]

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"By allowing the accumulation of even more taxpayer guaranteed debt, the moves will merely delay and exacerbate the housing problems and will increase the size of losses when these two government sponsored enterprises ultimately fail." — Peter Schiff
by Peter Schiff
Baltimore — (TFN): How do you know when you’re through the looking glass?
A fairly good indication [...]

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"The Federal Reserve has cemented its role as price fixer for short-term interest rates. It fuels speculative bubbles when the economy slows, and denies all responsibility when bubbles burst." — Dan Amoss
by Dan Amoss
Baltimore – (TFN): The government cannot bend the economy to its will, as most [...]

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"Possibly, Visa saw a future government clampdown before the rest of us noticed it and decided to refashion itself in preparation. Or maybe it just wanted to streamline its inner workings before it went public." — Stephanie Grimmett
by Stephanie Grimmett
Baltimore – (TFN): Weeeeeeeeeeee! — that would be the sound of Visa’s stock [...]

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“In early March, the “Credit Card Fair Fee Act of 2008” was introduced to the House of Representatives. The bill works to limit the power of credit card companies in several ways. Investors need to be concerned with just one aspect of the potential legislation.” — Andrew Snyder
by Andrew Snyder
Baltimore — (TFN): The nation is [...]

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“It does not matter that a merger is the only thing that can give Delta and Northwest even a remote shot at success, their corresponding pilot unions are looking out for themselves. ” – Andrew Snyder
By Andrew Snyder
Baltimore (TFN) – This country has some powerful unions. I hate them. I mean I [...]

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"The largest IPO in U.S. history will happen a day earlier than expected, meaning, as you read this on Tuesday, Visa could be pricing its shares." — Stephanie Grimmett
by Stephanie Grimmett
Baltimore – (TFN): Visa just moved up its IPO date.
The largest IPO in U.S. history will happen a day earlier [...]

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“We’re already roughly back to 2006. We could easily see this get back to 2002 levels before the dust settles. The possibility of the Dow at 8,000 is certainly not out of the question.” — Adam Lass
This was taken from TFN’s Smart Trading Action Alert interview with Adam Lass, chief chartist of the [...]

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"You have a number of options to profit from Thursday’s Visa IPO. First, you could simply try to buy shares in the aftermarket. In a best-case scenario, you would buy at or near the issue price and watch your shares go up followeing the same trajectory as MasterCard or, even better, Google. But there are [...]

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"In a market virtually frozen by credit and bank woes, and tumultuous economic uncertainty, Visa could put an end to pent-up salivating investor demand for any company not suffering from credit issues." — Ian Cooper
by Ian Cooper
Baltimore — (TFN): The biggest beneficiaries of Visa’s IPO will be the Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and JP [...]

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"Backing paper money with mortgages is nothing new. The French tried it in the late 18th Century, and it lead to hyperinflation." — Peter Schiff
by Peter Schiff
Baltimore — (TFN): This week, as the financial sector began to give way under the unbearable weight of bad mortgage debt, the Federal Reserve stepped in to save the [...]

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“The bandwidth problem is not necessarily one of technology or physical limitations. Like most other things, this is a money issue. ” – Andrew Snyder
By Andrew Snyder
Baltimore (TFN) — Could this be the end of the Internet? That is the surprising topic of an Internet-industry debate taking place in April. While some folks [...]

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"There is little doubt that the vast amounts of cheap, U.S.-dollar liquidity pumped into both American and international economies by the U.S. Federal Reserve Board(particularly under former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan averted some naturally occurring and corrective recessions and led to a series of unprecedented asset booms. The mistake was in thinking that this virtual [...]