investment

I heard the other day that before the oil problems of the 1970s, the financial world was 90% concerned with investment and 10% with speculation. Today, the proportions are reversed and the financial markets are 90% speculative. I don't know about you, but I find this one of the most remarkable...

Looks to me like the airline sector is basically OVER. Except for crossing oceans, in a few years there will be NO air travel; Oil prices will prohibit this except for the rich. Which means, I think, that we will see huge growth in the railroad sector at all levels, and possibly even entirely...

For the past year, I've been working very hard on starting up a new, very lucrative business in China. Now, I should clarify here that I have almost zero business training or education, everything I've learned has been learned hands on, through experience. Prior to this current effort, one...

Everyday I get 2-6 emails that consist of a couple of paragraphs from a novel and a blurry image touting some penny stock that "is on the verge of skyrocketing." My filter catches around 95% of them, but I opened one today that had a friend's name in the return address. I am having a hard time...

hiya i was reading up on futures for another thread - and i have a question about leverage - how is the percentage calculated? If I have $4000 for an initial margin what factors determine how big a contract i can enter into? Is it generally around 5%-10%? Does it fluctuate in volatile...

AP story I understand that the guy was playing on people's sympathy towards other Christians, but I can't really grasp how people invested their entire savings in a scheme that promised a 4000% return. I mean Charles Ponzi offered only a 1500% return (double your money every 90 days). Four...

I enjoyed reading this in yesterday's Ann Arbor (MI) News: Financial Planning Using Astrology