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Posts Tagged ‘ notes from the investment underground ’

The vote that pushed me over the edge

Dec 11th, 2009 | By Andrew Snyder | Category: Notes From the Investment Underground

By Andrew Snyder, TodaysFinancialNews.com

Baltimore — (TFN): Somebody get a bucket because I’m about to puke. I am having an impossible time trying to digest what I’m reading and hearing this week.

How could things have gotten this bad?



Obama to the fools: Duct tape will fix it

Dec 10th, 2009 | By Andrew Snyder | Category: Notes From the Investment Underground

By Andrew Snyder, TodaysFinancialNews.com

Baltimore — (TFN): Want to know when a specific trend has no legs? Simple, when the government backs it, you know its DOA.

Just ask the folks that dumped millions into the biofuels industry. I have never seen an industry fall off the map as quickly as ethanol, except maybe clean coal, but that’s a whole different story.



A lesson from a fisherman

Dec 9th, 2009 | By Andrew Snyder | Category: Notes From the Investment Underground

By Andrew Snyder, TodaysFinancialNews.com

Baltimore — (TFN): There’s something about snow – we got two more inches last night – that makes me want to go fly fishing. It’s a great example of the contrarian streak that runs deep within.

If you’ve ever fished any of the Eastern seaboard’s popular trout streams, you know they are popular places almost any time of the year. But from April through September, you had better bring your helmet. It’s combat fishing in most sections.



Stimulus 2.0: Give a penny, take a penny

Dec 8th, 2009 | By Andrew Snyder | Category: Notes From the Investment Underground

By Andrew Snyder, TodaysFinancialNews.com

Baltimore – (TFN): Get ready for Stimulus Version 2.0. With unemployment in double-digit territory, credit still tight and consumers refusing to part with their cash, it’s obvious Washington’s first bailout did nothing but put the nation even further in debt and give China an even larger stake of the country’s financial future.



When in doubt, buy booze, babes and bullets

Dec 7th, 2009 | By Andrew Snyder | Category: Notes From the Investment Underground

By Andrew Snyder, TodaysFinancialNews.com

Baltimore — (TFN): As we get older, the list of regrets grows. It’s natural. The more days we put in, the more mistakes we make. Hopefully, the list of successes grows even faster, but today’s about the mistakes.

We’ll say it’s in honor of Tiger Woods, the last celeb to bit nibble the forbidden fruit.

We all have regrets. The house we should have bought. The car we shouldn’t have sold. The girl we should have taken to prom. Or the pilot we shouldn’t have trusted.