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Crazy budget cuts: Nay to police horses
San Diego is nixing police horses, Miami fired its chicken catchers and a Nevada town scrapped free coffee at the senior center. Here’s how cash-strapped cities are making due.
Stocks churn after two-week run
Stocks struggled Thursday as investors eyed mixed economic news and a fluctuating U.S. dollar and opted to step back after the recent advance.
Why we can’t inflate our way out of debt
It’s dawning on people that getting a handle on burgeoning U.S. debt will be a long and hard process.
Exponential Moving Average
Exponential Moving Average
With simple averages the calculation is, well, simple. The simplicity of the calculation can sometimes cause a bit of a flaw to the SMA. The flaw is due to spikes in the price of a security.
For example, if you were to calculate the 4 day SMA of stock XYZ where its [...]
Free Equifax Credit Score Card
Don’t get too excited. Equifax is offering a free “Credit Score Card“, which in reality just gives you a range of what your credit score is. And the score is from their “Equifax Risk Score” system, not a FICO score. (You can still get 30% off a real FICO [...]
New PineCone Research Application Link (Paid Surveys)
Here is an updated application link at Pinecone Research, which is again accepting new members. (May expire at any time, so apply now if you’re interested!) Looks open to all, but only one person per household can sign up. Link via Realm of Prosperity.
PineCone Research remains one of the [...]
PSA: Monoprice.com Possibly Hacked; Credit Card Data Stolen?
Although relatively new, Monoprice.com has quickly become a very popular place to buy cheap but high quality audio/video cables and adapters online. I recommended shopping there if you’re trying to connect your laptop to your TV (and maybe drop your cable subscription?). I’ve probably bought from them five times in the [...]
Euro daily basing or consolidating?
Couple of possible scenarios. For now looks like we will get a choppy rally up in wave iv before a wave v down..
IF the move down has finished we should see some good mini rallies to signal a change in trend
Running between the Rain Drops by gmak
Living Inside a Broken Clock
China inflation and industriasl production have accelerated more than expected. It’s becoming more and more obvious (in the fairy tale .gov data world, anyway) that the taps need to be turned off. The USA budget deficit has hit a record and a 17 month drive to the abyss. Meanwhile, interest paid [...]
Health-care reform’s ‘back-door’ tax
The big talk on Capital Hill may be about health-care reform, but as part of this massive undertaking, the Democrats are quietly reshaping the tax system too. Tucked inside President Obama’s latest health-care proposal is a major change to the Medicare tax.
Stocks poised for weak open
U.S. stocks were set for a weak open Thursday as investors remain skittish in the absence of any major market moving news.
Missed chances to save on GMAC bailout
The Treasury Department did not adequately consider all options when bailing out troubled finance company GMAC and could have better protected taxpayers’ money, according to a report released Thursday.
ISEE Update
Last night I came home quite late and finally the ISE had updated their latest ISEE chart. So I was up until 2:00am importing the updated data into my Exel chart so that I could start looking for new patterns (the JS chart the ISE offers gives me a headache).
So, as you can see we [...]
Jobless claims bill OK’d by Senate
The Senate on Wednesday approved a wide-ranging bill that would push back the deadline to file for extended unemployment insurance until year-end and extends dozens of expired tax breaks.
Stocks post modest gains
Stocks posted modest gains Wednesday, with the Nasdaq ending at its highest level in more than 18 months, as investors weighed falling oil prices against strength in the financial services sector and an upbeat report on wholesale inventories.
