Back in August, when prices were only spiraling, not free-falling, downward, we ran a feature on hedging the hardest of hard assets, real estate ("Using Futures To Hedge Your House"). The...
The big problem I have with the looming bailout bill is that nobody in Washington is accurately identifying the culprit: Washington. And now we're supposed to trust them with the cure?Here's another...
I've bought an abandoned 3BR/1BA house for $3,000 before, but this is INSANE:SAGINAW, Mich. - With a winning bid of just $1.75, a Chicago woman has won an auction for an abandoned home in Saginaw....
The markets today look more like window dressing to me than the start of a new bull market. If I hadn't looked at a calendar to see that it is the end of the month and more importantly the end of...
News a week ago Friday that a bailout plan was in the works that would allow the government to take the toxic mortgage assets off the balance sheets of financial companies was met with a great sense...
Maybe we should send Howie Mandel to Washington Mutual (NYSE: WM) to head up the negotiations on this package. It would we easier and we could add 5 – $750 billion prizes to the board. The...
For the second day in a row, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and US Treasury Secretary Paulson pleaded to the power players of Washington to pass their request for $700 Billion to implement...
While the recent bankruptcies and potential failures have generated concern for both Wall Street and Main Street, and the federal bailouts have offered some hope (as well as concern), the root cause...
The best answer is both. This is an opportunity to eliminate positions from your portfolio that are lagging and buy positions that have been in good patterns and breaking out. I will put this warning...
The current market environment is producing difficult decisions for those with both long and short positions. As reported in a recent Reuters article, hedge fund manager and short seller Douglas Kass...
