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    HOW To MAKE 20% in the NEXT 48 HOURS - Facilitate Bitcoin Trade

    INVESTING 
    In 2013 Bitcoin has gone from about 13 USD to 700 USD. 1. Right now many folks are low on cash but have bitcoin. 2. They want to reap the increase in value, but don’t necessarily want to sell bitcoin into the market/cash out because they will be hit with a short term capital gains tax. 3...
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    Major New Direction for US Economy: Sub-Prime Mortgage Mortgages are back/C

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    Major Economic News: Major New Direction for US Economy: Sub-Prime Mortgages are back/Capital Write-offs of Housing Debt Today saw one of the biggest pieces of economic news in many months: The powers- that-be will bring back Sub Prime Mortgage Loans and allow underwater homeowners to write...
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    2012 Prognosis: Deflaglation

    INVESTING 
    (show me where I am wrong, please) Investing for Yield -2012Right now investors are chasing yield, and are more desperate for this yield than anytime in the last 30 years, at least. TIPSTreasury Inflation Protected Security (TIPS) is a government bond that pays a base coupon (interest) rate...
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    How to Tell when the Res. RE Market Bottoms? (100 year chart)

    REAL ESTATE 
    How to Tell the Housing Bust has Bottomed - When the hundred year housing chart finds a new plateau. Very generally - the market moves up for about seven years, flat for seven years, down for seven, level for seven and then begins a new wave up. Here is a graphic showing the Case-Shiller...
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    Who makes the parts (vendor) for a Company? Example - Apple

    Great Question. Somebody asked in another thread - How Can you Determine Who makes the parts (vendor) for a Company? The example asked was Apple. I don’t know too much about the tech sector (I focus on minig and materials, commodites), but the due diligence/competitive intelligence...
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    Junior Achievement?

    Anybody hear volunteer with Junior Achievement? Thoughts/Experiences?
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    Learn anything, for free

    MINDSET 
    Learn Anything: http://www.khanacademy.org/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has all class content online for free http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm The information WANTS to be free!
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    Harry Schultz Signs Off - End of a 45-yr Trading Career

    INVESTING 
    One of those folks that actually did make money trading. Can you imagine posting your trades, picks and thoughts for forty five years straight? Legend. Interesting sign off... Harry Schultz
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    Municipal Bond Breakdown

    INVESTING 
    Portends trouble based on this large volume: MUB Basic Chart | iShares S&P National Municipal Stock - Yahoo! Finance=
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    On Trading Rules

    INVESTING 
    Did a forum search for Trading Rules, and not one good hit! So, here’s my thread: 1. Monetary Philosophy determines a Trading Philosophy 2. Trading Philosophy determines a Trading Focus (industry/sector) 3. Trading Focus determines the Trading System 4. Trading System determines Trading...
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    Rare Earth Metals – A Short Primer

    INVESTING 
    Rare Earth Metals (REE) are elements, typically metal, that are required for high tech development and manufacture of electronics, aerospace, military and similar products. Some examples include: Molybdenum Ruthenium Lanthanum Neobium Tantalum Cesium Lithium Cerium Vanadium Different...
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    SoCal Real Estate Development Opportunity

    REAL ESTATE 
    On the interchange off I-10, So.Cal, Thousand Palms Ca The actual address, too new (?) to appear in Mapquest, is 105 Conchita Road, this is the cross avenue Map of [72200-72273] Ramon Rd Thousand Palms, California by MapQuest Across the highway from the Aqua Caliente band Casino. Was pretty...
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    How to Make Money on the Oil Spill...

    Oooh, oil spill recovery. THE ADMINISTRATION FINALLY CAME UP WITH A REAL JOBS PLAN!!! :smug2: (winkies) So, what ARE YOU GOING TO DO to get a piece of the pie? I worked a bit on the last oil spill in San Francisco Bay (Cosco Busan). There will be LOTS OF EASY money flowing from the admin...
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    Keeping a high mortgage for asset protection purposes?

    REAL ESTATE 
    Does anybody here continually keep/renew a high mortgage on their investment property with the sole intent to dissuade those that might sue you if they saw you held a higher equity position? (That is, as a separate strategy above and beyond usual asset protection measures such as umbrella...
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    How Much do you Charge for a Link on your website?

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    I have a large number of links on an old-fashioned (categorized) link farm. Out of the blue someone asked me how much I charged for a link. I thought it was a scam. Then someone else offered to pay me for a link. I accepted. Wasn't sure what to charge, and not much out there really, few hits...
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    Wanted: Multi-Family, 22-25 units, Nor Cal

    REAL ESTATE 
    Hi, Friend of mine is looking to sell/close on his current property Feb 8th and will have 45 days to identify a new property. He is looking for a multi-family apartment bldg with 22-35 units in Marin County, California (and possibly Sonoma); perferably on 101 corridor, as far north as Santa...
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    Non-Tax Change 2010: IRS Commissioner admits code is garbage

    INVESTING TAXES | REGS 
    IRS Commissioner Does not understand IRS Code, uses Tax Preparer IRS commissioner doesn't file his own taxes - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room The goal of any regulation is to make it so suspect, so complex, that the average person cannot understand. This provides the option for the...
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    Tax Change 2010: IRA Conversion

    INVESTING TAXES | REGS 
    Are you converting an IRA into a ROTH IRA ('ROTH Conversion), maybe? Maybe not a bad idea, maybe... (Or: Why the stock markets may face a major retraction in the next 24 months). If you are converting 100k, for example, from a traditional IRA (and assuming relatively stable income...
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    Tax Change 2010: Estate Tax

    INVESTING TAXES | REGS 
    Today – There is No Federal Estate Tax The Estate Tax Expired January 1st. Previously, there had been a 3.5 Million (7) United States Dollar (USD) exemption, per person, per estate. So, if you and your wife have a 7 M estate (in a community property state), then you HAD 3.5M exempted from...
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    Buying Property with a Self-Directed IRA: Issues Still unsolved

    REAL ESTATE 
    RE: Buying Property with a Self-Directed IRA: Issues Still unsolved at FastLane Hi. I have read all the threads in this topic (11 posts responded to search query ‘directed IRA’). To summarize the sticky wickets (in two of the better threads: I. This thread died at this issue: You...
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