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OptionsANIMAL

Option Credit Spread Strategy: An Opportunity For Success

By Greg Jensen Founder and CEO, OptionsANIMAL Every trade has a personality. Every trade represents an opportunity for success and an opportunity for failure. The choices you make about what,...Read More >>

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ETFguide

What will the 401(k) Plan of the Future Look Like?

The 401(k) retirement plan has come a long way since its humble beginnings in the early 1980s. Today, roughly 72 million people have a combined $3 trillion invested in 401(k) plans. What...Read More >>

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EconMatters

Remembering Steve Jobs: 15 Fascinating Facts You Don't Know About

By  EconMatters   Sadly, Mr. Steve Jobs, Apple founder and CEO till a few months ago, passed away today at age 56 after losing a long battle to cancer. Mr. Jobs was a true...Read More >>

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EconMatters

AT&T Offers an Attractive Alternative to Low CD Rates

By EconMatters With the Fed promising to keep rates low for an extended amount of time, at least for the next two years based upon their latest analysis of the economy, interest rates on CDs...Read More >>

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EconMatters

Occupy Wall Street: Must-Know Facts About Big Banks

By  EconMatters Wall Street big banks, although not entirely responsible for the Great Recession, most experts agree that banks creating and  partying in the subprime...Read More >>

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EconMatters

Debt Crisis 2012: Forget Europe, Check Out Japan

By  EconMatters   The recent  massive demand for ECB's LTRO  (Long Term Refinancing Operation)--nearly 490 billion euro in three-year 1% loans from 523 banks--only...Read More >>

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EconMatters

Social Media and Holiday Home Security

By  EconMatters   Some people believe it is an urban legend that criminals would actually "analyze" tweets, Facebook updates, and Four Square, etc. to pick their...Read More >>

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Steven Hansen

Weekly Review: Don't Trust Economic Release Data

I watch the markets with interest when major economic releases vary from expectations.   If you don't like the data today, just wait until next month and likely you will like it (or...Read More >>

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EconMatters

Commodities Snapshot: Oversold For Now, Dollar Holds The Key

By  EconMatters   The 10 charts here are trading range charts for 10 major commodities from the Bespoke Group. All 10 commodities are currently at or below the bottom of...Read More >>

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Ted Allrich

This Is How It Is

Times are tough.  There is no easy solution for making them better.  No one politician can come in and make our problems go away just because he/she was just elected.  We tried...Read More >>

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