En Un Noticiero Ruso Cientificos Debaten El Tema Sobre El Gran Fraude Del Calentamiento Global Comentan Sobre Lo Reciente Acontecido Sobre Los Hackers Publicando Emails Donde Se Comenta Que Toda Informacion Ha Sido Alterada Para Beneficio De Unos Cuantos,Con El Fin De Lanzar Impuestos Globales.

Científicos como el inglés Piers Corbyn empiezan a pedir la derogación de la Cumbre del Clima de Copenhague debido a los emails revelados acerca de que ha habido una conspiración para modificar los datos sobre el clima y aparentar que había subido la temperatura con el fin de lanzar nuevos impuestos globales, establecer el Gobierno Mundial y enriquecer a personajes como Al Gore, gracias a los “Tontos útiles” conocidos como “Ecologistas”.Este Video Viene En Ingles

Estos Otros Videos Son De Los Noticieros Americanos Donde Se Habla Del Mismo Tema La Mentira Del Calentamiento Global y La Noticia De Los Hackers,Todos Vienen En Ingles,Buscare Subtitulados Al Español.

Los Hackers informáticos irrumpieron en miles de correos electrónicos y documentos de la Unidad de Investigación del Clima en la Universidad de East Anglia, la semana pasada y descubierto la conspiración del calentamiento global.

Stuart Varney entrevista Al científico Pat Michaels,Del Instituto Cato, que fue el blanco de la amenaza física del clima científico Ben Sanders. Pide una investigación independiente sobre lo que se ha denominado “Climategate” son cada vez más como la base para el hombre el calentamiento global se derrumba tras la publicación de correos electrónicos que demuestran los investigadores puesto de acuerdo para manipular los datos con el fin de “ocultar la disminución” en las temperaturas globales.

En una entrevista con The Washington Times el lunes, el senador James Inhofe (R-Okla.) anunció que iba a averiguar si el Grupo Intergubernamental de Expertos sobre el Cambio Climático UNS (IPCC), preparó la ciencia para hacer esa mirada como si la cosa se arregló la ciencia, cuando todo el tiempo, por supuesto, sabía que no era. El calentamiento global es sólo otra excusa para Sacar Dinero De Nuestros Bolsillos.

(GiaVang.com.vn – Giá vàng Việt Nam và Thế Giới) – Ngày 22/9, chứng khoán Mỹ đã tăng điểm trở lại trong khi nhà đầu tư vẫn thận trọng chờ quyết định của FED.

Thị trường cổ phiếu được hỗ trợ tích cực bởi thông tin Bộ tài chính Mỹ đã huy động thành công 43 tỷ USD trái phiếu kỳ hạn 2 năm, trái tức 1,034%, với khối lượng đặt mua gấp 3,23 lần số lượng chào bán – mức cao nhất kể từ tháng 9/2007.

Dow Jones hướng tới ngưỡng 10.000 điểm

Các chỉ số Chứng khoán chính của Mỹ đã tăng xấp xỉ 0,5% khi mở cửa ngày giao dịch trước bối cảnh thị trường Chứng khoán châu Á và châu Âu cùng khởi sắc.

Thị trường phiên này tiếp tục chạy trong biên độ dao động hẹp do nhà đầu tư vẫn đang thận trọng chờ kết quả cuộc họp về chính sách tiền tệ của Cục Dự trữ Liên bang Mỹ (FED). Dự kiến vào lúc 2h15 chiều ngày 23/9 theo giờ địa phương, FED sẽ chính thức công bố quyết định về hướng điều hành chính sách tiền tệ.

Sau phiên điều chỉnh một ngày trước đó, sức cầu tỏ ra khá vững chắc trong phiên này khi chỉ có một lần duy nhất Dow Jones xuống dưới ngưỡng giá trị phiên trước, nhưng sau đó đã nhanh chóng lấy lại đà tăng và duy trì mạch tăng đến hết ngày giao dịch.

Với phiên tăng điểm này, chỉ số S&P 500 đã phục hồi 58,4% so với thời điểm thị trường xuống thấp nhất trong vòng 12 năm được thiếp lập ngày 9/3/2009. Trong khi đó, Dow Jones chỉ cách ngưỡng 10.000 điểm có 170,13 điểm, tương đương 1,73%.

Cổ phiếu của 10 ngành trong chỉ số S&P 500 hôm thứ Ba đều tăng điểm, trong đó mức hồi phục mạnh nhất thuộc về cổ phiếu ngành tài chính, công nghiệp và công nghệ.

Chỉ số S&P tài chính đã tăng 2,3%, trong đó cổ phiếu Bank of America lên 2,1%, cổ phiếu Citigroup tăng 4,97%, cổ phiếu Wells Fargo nhích 3,9%, cổ phiếu AIG tiến thêm 5,4%. Cổ phiếu blue-chip khối công nghiệp, khai mỏ thuộc chỉ số Dow Jones như Caterpillar, Alcoa có mức tăng lần lượt là 3,6% và 2,3%.

Biểu đồ diễn biến của ba chỉ số Chứng khoán Mỹ ngày 22/9 – Nguồn: G.Finance.

Điểm qua kết quả giao dịch ngày 22/9: chỉ số Dow Jones tăng 51,01 điểm, tương đương 0,52%, chốt ở mức 9.829,87.

Chỉ số Nasdaq lên 8,26 điểm, tương đương 0,39%, chốt ở mức 2.146,3.

Cuối cùng, chỉ số S&P 500 tiến thêm 7 điểm, tương ứng 0,66%, đóng cửa ở mức 1.071,66.

Khối lượng giao dịch trên sàn New York đạt 1,27 tỷ cổ phiếu, thị trường cứ có 5 cổ phiếu lên điểm thì có 2 cổ phiếu giảm điểm. Trên sàn Nasdaq, khối lượng khớp lệnh thành công đạt 2,51 tỷ cổ phiếu, thị trường cứ có 5 cổ phiếu tăng điểm thì có 4 cổ phiếu giảm điểm.

Những thông tin đáng chú ý trong tuần:

Thứ Tư: FED sẽ công bố quyết định về chính sách tiền tệ, lãi suất cơ bản.

Thứ Năm: Công bố số liệu về số người nộp đơn xin trợ cấp thất nghiệp lần đầu; hội nghị G20 sẽ khai mạc; công bố số liệu về doanh số nhà đã qua sử dụng chờ bán; đấu giá trái phiếu kỳ hạn 7 năm.

Thứ Sáu: Công bố số liệu về đơn đặt hàng lâu bền; doanh số nhà mới chờ bán; kết quả kinh doanh của KB Home.

Chứng khoán châu Á chuyển biến tích cực hơn

Ngày 22/9, nhiều thị trường chứng khoán châu Á đã tăng điểm trở lại nhưng thị trường Trung Quốc vẫn giảm điểm với biên độ khá lớn.

Diễn biến của thị trường chứng khoán khu vực đã tốt hơn phiên trước đó khi có tới 3 thị trường tăng điểm với biên độ trên 1%. Thị trường chứng khoán Nhật vẫn nghỉ giao dịch nhân ngày lễ, còn thị trường chứng khoán Trung Quốc lại lạc hướng với nhiều thị trường khác khi giảm trên 2%.

Chỉ số MSCI châu Á – Thái Bình Dương (ngoại trừ Nhật) phiên này đã tăng 1% lên 393,23 điểm. Như vậy chỉ số này đã tăng được 68% so với thời điểm thị trường xuống thấp nhất trong năm được thiết lập ngày 9/3/2009.

Điểm đáng chú ý trong phiên này chính là sự sụt giảm của thị trường chứng khoán Trung Quốc trước lo ngại nguồn cung cổ phiếu mới sẽ tạo sức ép đối với thị trường. Trong nhiều tháng qua, các công ty của Trung Quốc đã chào bán lần đầu ra công chúng lượng cổ phiếu trị giá 96,1 tỷ Nhân dân tệ.

Các cổ phiếu có sức ảnh hưởng tới thị trường đều giảm khá mạnh, trong đó cổ phiếu PetroChina hạ 2,2%, cổ phiếu Pudong Development Bank mất 4%, cổ phiếu Guoyuan Securities xuống 6,7%, cổ phiếu Tangshan Iron & Steel sụt giảm 7,55%,…

Kết thúc ngày giao dịch, chỉ số Shanghai Composite giảm 2,3%, chốt ở mức 2.897,55 – mức thấp nhất kể từ ngày 7/9/2009. Như vậy, chỉ số này đã phục hồi được 59% so với đầu năm 2009. Theo số liệu của Bloomberg, hiện giá cổ phiếu trong chỉ số này đang được giao dịch gấp 32,05 lần so với mức thu nhập được công bố.

Điểm qua các thị trường khác: chỉ số Taiwan Weighted của Đài Loan hạ 0,45%. Chỉ số VN-Index của Việt Nam tiến thêm 0,84%. Chỉ số ASX của Australia mất 0,28%. Chỉ số Hang Seng của Hồng Kông lên 1,06%. Chỉ số BSE 30 của Ấn Độ tăng 0,87%. Chỉ số KOSPI của Hàn Quốc lên 1,38%. Chỉ số Straits Times của Singapore lên 1,42%.

* Thị trường chứng khoán Nhật nghỉ giao dịch nhân ngày lễ.

Thị trường	Chỉ số	Phiên trước	Đóng cửa	Tăng / giảm (điểm)	Tăng / giảm (%)
Mỹ	Dow Jones	9.778,86	9.829,87	51,01	0,52
	Nasdaq	2.138,04	2.146,30	8,26	0,39
	S&P 500	1.064,66	1.071,66	7,00	0,66
Anh	FTSE 100	5.134,36	5.142,60	8,24	0,16
Đức	DAX	5.668,65	5.709,38	40,73	0,72
Pháp	CAC 40	3.812,16	3.823,52	11,36	0,30
Đài Loan	Taiwan Weighted	7.502,46	7.469,03	33,43	0,45
Nhật	Nikkei 225	10.370,50	N/A	N/A	N/A
Hồng Kông	Hang Seng	21.472,85	21.701,14	228,29	1,06
Hàn Quốc	KOSPI Composite	1.695,50	1.718,88	23,38	1,38
Singapore	Straits Times	2.647,91	2.685,63	37,72	1,42
Trung Quốc	Shanghai Composite	2.967,01	2.897,55	69,46	2,34
Ấn Độ	BSE	16.741,30	16.886,43	145,13	0,87
Australia	ASX	4.684,10	4.671,10	13,00	0,28
Việt Nam	VN-Index	577,97	582,85	4,88	0,84
Nguồn: CNBC, Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg

Source: Phố Wall lấy lại đà tăng điểm

(GiaVang.com.vn – Giá vàng Việt Nam và Thế Giới) – Ngày 22/9, chứng khoán Mỹ đã tăng điểm trở lại trong khi nhà đầu tư vẫn thận trọng chờ quyết định của FED.

Thị trường cổ phiếu được hỗ trợ tích cực bởi thông tin Bộ tài chính Mỹ đã huy động thành công 43 tỷ USD trái phiếu kỳ hạn 2 năm, trái tức 1,034%, với khối lượng đặt mua gấp 3,23 lần số lượng chào bán – mức cao nhất kể từ tháng 9/2007.

Dow Jones hướng tới ngưỡng 10.000 điểm

Các chỉ số Chứng khoán chính của Mỹ đã tăng xấp xỉ 0,5% khi mở cửa ngày giao dịch trước bối cảnh thị trường Chứng khoán châu Á và châu Âu cùng khởi sắc.

Thị trường phiên này tiếp tục chạy trong biên độ dao động hẹp do nhà đầu tư vẫn đang thận trọng chờ kết quả cuộc họp về chính sách tiền tệ của Cục Dự trữ Liên bang Mỹ (FED). Dự kiến vào lúc 2h15 chiều ngày 23/9 theo giờ địa phương, FED sẽ chính thức công bố quyết định về hướng điều hành chính sách tiền tệ.

Sau phiên điều chỉnh một ngày trước đó, sức cầu tỏ ra khá vững chắc trong phiên này khi chỉ có một lần duy nhất Dow Jones xuống dưới ngưỡng giá trị phiên trước, nhưng sau đó đã nhanh chóng lấy lại đà tăng và duy trì mạch tăng đến hết ngày giao dịch.

Với phiên tăng điểm này, chỉ số S&P 500 đã phục hồi 58,4% so với thời điểm thị trường xuống thấp nhất trong vòng 12 năm được thiếp lập ngày 9/3/2009. Trong khi đó, Dow Jones chỉ cách ngưỡng 10.000 điểm có 170,13 điểm, tương đương 1,73%.

Cổ phiếu của 10 ngành trong chỉ số S&P 500 hôm thứ Ba đều tăng điểm, trong đó mức hồi phục mạnh nhất thuộc về cổ phiếu ngành tài chính, công nghiệp và công nghệ.

Chỉ số S&P tài chính đã tăng 2,3%, trong đó cổ phiếu Bank of America lên 2,1%, cổ phiếu Citigroup tăng 4,97%, cổ phiếu Wells Fargo nhích 3,9%, cổ phiếu AIG tiến thêm 5,4%. Cổ phiếu blue-chip khối công nghiệp, khai mỏ thuộc chỉ số Dow Jones như Caterpillar, Alcoa có mức tăng lần lượt là 3,6% và 2,3%.

Biểu đồ diễn biến của ba chỉ số Chứng khoán Mỹ ngày 22/9 – Nguồn: G.Finance.

Điểm qua kết quả giao dịch ngày 22/9: chỉ số Dow Jones tăng 51,01 điểm, tương đương 0,52%, chốt ở mức 9.829,87.

Chỉ số Nasdaq lên 8,26 điểm, tương đương 0,39%, chốt ở mức 2.146,3.

Cuối cùng, chỉ số S&P 500 tiến thêm 7 điểm, tương ứng 0,66%, đóng cửa ở mức 1.071,66.

Khối lượng giao dịch trên sàn New York đạt 1,27 tỷ cổ phiếu, thị trường cứ có 5 cổ phiếu lên điểm thì có 2 cổ phiếu giảm điểm. Trên sàn Nasdaq, khối lượng khớp lệnh thành công đạt 2,51 tỷ cổ phiếu, thị trường cứ có 5 cổ phiếu tăng điểm thì có 4 cổ phiếu giảm điểm.

Những thông tin đáng chú ý trong tuần:

Thứ Tư: FED sẽ công bố quyết định về chính sách tiền tệ, lãi suất cơ bản.

Thứ Năm: Công bố số liệu về số người nộp đơn xin trợ cấp thất nghiệp lần đầu; hội nghị G20 sẽ khai mạc; công bố số liệu về doanh số nhà đã qua sử dụng chờ bán; đấu giá trái phiếu kỳ hạn 7 năm.

Thứ Sáu: Công bố số liệu về đơn đặt hàng lâu bền; doanh số nhà mới chờ bán; kết quả kinh doanh của KB Home.

Chứng khoán châu Á chuyển biến tích cực hơn

Ngày 22/9, nhiều thị trường chứng khoán châu Á đã tăng điểm trở lại nhưng thị trường Trung Quốc vẫn giảm điểm với biên độ khá lớn.

Diễn biến của thị trường chứng khoán khu vực đã tốt hơn phiên trước đó khi có tới 3 thị trường tăng điểm với biên độ trên 1%. Thị trường chứng khoán Nhật vẫn nghỉ giao dịch nhân ngày lễ, còn thị trường chứng khoán Trung Quốc lại lạc hướng với nhiều thị trường khác khi giảm trên 2%.

Chỉ số MSCI châu Á – Thái Bình Dương (ngoại trừ Nhật) phiên này đã tăng 1% lên 393,23 điểm. Như vậy chỉ số này đã tăng được 68% so với thời điểm thị trường xuống thấp nhất trong năm được thiết lập ngày 9/3/2009.

Điểm đáng chú ý trong phiên này chính là sự sụt giảm của thị trường chứng khoán Trung Quốc trước lo ngại nguồn cung cổ phiếu mới sẽ tạo sức ép đối với thị trường. Trong nhiều tháng qua, các công ty của Trung Quốc đã chào bán lần đầu ra công chúng lượng cổ phiếu trị giá 96,1 tỷ Nhân dân tệ.

Các cổ phiếu có sức ảnh hưởng tới thị trường đều giảm khá mạnh, trong đó cổ phiếu PetroChina hạ 2,2%, cổ phiếu Pudong Development Bank mất 4%, cổ phiếu Guoyuan Securities xuống 6,7%, cổ phiếu Tangshan Iron & Steel sụt giảm 7,55%,…

Kết thúc ngày giao dịch, chỉ số Shanghai Composite giảm 2,3%, chốt ở mức 2.897,55 – mức thấp nhất kể từ ngày 7/9/2009. Như vậy, chỉ số này đã phục hồi được 59% so với đầu năm 2009. Theo số liệu của Bloomberg, hiện giá cổ phiếu trong chỉ số này đang được giao dịch gấp 32,05 lần so với mức thu nhập được công bố.

Điểm qua các thị trường khác: chỉ số Taiwan Weighted của Đài Loan hạ 0,45%. Chỉ số VN-Index của Việt Nam tiến thêm 0,84%. Chỉ số ASX của Australia mất 0,28%. Chỉ số Hang Seng của Hồng Kông lên 1,06%. Chỉ số BSE 30 của Ấn Độ tăng 0,87%. Chỉ số KOSPI của Hàn Quốc lên 1,38%. Chỉ số Straits Times của Singapore lên 1,42%.

* Thị trường chứng khoán Nhật nghỉ giao dịch nhân ngày lễ.

Thị trường	Chỉ số	Phiên trước	Đóng cửa	Tăng / giảm (điểm)	Tăng / giảm (%)
Mỹ	Dow Jones	9.778,86	9.829,87	51,01	0,52
	Nasdaq	2.138,04	2.146,30	8,26	0,39
	S&P 500	1.064,66	1.071,66	7,00	0,66
Anh	FTSE 100	5.134,36	5.142,60	8,24	0,16
Đức	DAX	5.668,65	5.709,38	40,73	0,72
Pháp	CAC 40	3.812,16	3.823,52	11,36	0,30
Đài Loan	Taiwan Weighted	7.502,46	7.469,03	33,43	0,45
Nhật	Nikkei 225	10.370,50	N/A	N/A	N/A
Hồng Kông	Hang Seng	21.472,85	21.701,14	228,29	1,06
Hàn Quốc	KOSPI Composite	1.695,50	1.718,88	23,38	1,38
Singapore	Straits Times	2.647,91	2.685,63	37,72	1,42
Trung Quốc	Shanghai Composite	2.967,01	2.897,55	69,46	2,34
Ấn Độ	BSE	16.741,30	16.886,43	145,13	0,87
Australia	ASX	4.684,10	4.671,10	13,00	0,28
Việt Nam	VN-Index	577,97	582,85	4,88	0,84
Nguồn: CNBC, Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg

Source: Phố Wall lấy lại đà tăng điểm

Traders around the country are erupting in furor over Jim Cramer’s unfortunate comments in support of the proposed Trader Tax.  Speaking on CNBC in his regular shoot-from-the-hip slot, Cramer basically said what amounted to “why not?” when asked about the Democrats’ backward idea to extract a percentage of every transaction on the markets.

I read his clarification on TheStreet.com this morning, and frankly, it was weak…something about how a Trader Tax would help bring jobs back or whatever, completely absurd.  I got the impression that he wished he hadn’t said anything on the subject to begin with and wished he could back off of his original support for it.  Oh well.

In the meantime, Eric Jackson, an activist investor, contributor to TheStreet.com and the voice of Breakout Performance, posted a very well-written look at what the consequences of a Trader Tax may mean here in the US:

While I support Cramer’s interest in seeing job creation flourish in America, I completely disagree that the “trader tax” will accomplish this aim. To the contrary, I think allowing such a tax to take root here would accomplish just the opposite. In my view, such a tax would encourage large amounts of capital to relocate outside of America, jobs would be lost (not gained) and total government tax revenue would likely go down.

For a preview of what could happen in the U.S. if this trader tax was imposed, look at Britain. At the moment, the U.K. is in even worse fiscal shape than the United States. Because of that, its Labour government recently introduced additional taxes that specifically target hedge funds’ trading profits. Government bureaucrats assumed this was an easy way of generating tax revenue. What they failed to appreciate is that capital has never been more fungible than in today’s global market.

London-based hedge funds immediately announced they were relocating to Switzerland in droves, where they would face none of the new taxes levied in the U.K. With those funds go certain administrative and back-office jobs. But more important, ask London bankers how they feel about losing the many profitable revenue streams attributable to doing business with hedge funds that will now be sent to Swiss banks.

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Today markets endured serious declines all over the world because of this story. Problem is this is the day after Thanksgiving and neither FBN or CNBC put their best foot forward.

In the morning, if you didn’t want to sit through jokes waiting for more news, you had to switch from FBN to CNBC. FBN kept telling people that for those who wanted more analysis they should tune in to their live webcast. Not good enough. Not everyone wants to tie up their computer bandwidth in the morning like that. But it wasn’t a massively bad day in the offing. People were already speculating that US markets would not get hit as hard. One wonders what FBN would do if it was a really bad day in the making. Would it really stick with Imus and send business viewers packing to either CNBC or the FBN webcast, or would it bump Imus and go wall to wall? We’ll have to wait and see if that day ever comes and what the network ends up doing. But, for whatever shortcomings FBN had in handling the story early, it made up ground later in the day. It stayed live long past the point that markets closed and CNBC went to tape.

So it wasn’t a great day all around for the business nets. FBN kept Imus on while the story was breaking all over the world while CNBC was in full business news coverage mode. But later on in the day CNBC closed up shop while FBN stayed live. Nobody won this day. Both sides need to do some re-thinking.

UPDATE 2: Were injuries caused by Tiger’s jealous wife?

UPDATE: Injured Tiger Looks to be Out of the Woods.

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Tiger Woods was seriously injured in a car accident early this morning.

No confirmation of any specific details that I have seen yet except for brief updates by CNN and ESPN. I saw on RotoWorld.com that Tiger Woods agent told CNBC that Woods was fine. We’ll have to keep watching and hope that Tiger is OK.

If anyone does hear or find any links to more information, please feel free to leave in the comment section.

From the Associated Press:

Authorities say Tiger Woods has been seriously injured in a car wreck in Florida.

The Florida Highway Patrol says the PGA star hit a fire hydrant and a tree as he pulled out of his driveway early Friday in his 2009 Cadillac sport utility vehicle.

Woods was taken to Health Central Hospital. His condition was not immediately known, though the news release said his injuries were serious.

The highway patrol says the crash is still under investigation, and charges are pending. However, the highway patrol said the crash was not alcohol-related.

From CNN:

Golfer Tiger Woods has been taken to a Florida hospital after suffering serious injuries in a car wreck early Friday, officials said.

The one-car accident occurred about 2:25 a.m. near his home in Windermere, a suburb of Orlando, according to an incident report from the Florida Highway Patrol.

Woods, 33, had just pulled out of his driveway and begun to drive down the street when his Cadillac SUV struck a fire hydrant, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

The front of his vehicle then struck a tree. He has been transported to Health Central Hospital, the statement said.

From USA Today:

Tiger Woods was seriously injured in a car accident early this morning, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.

Woods pulled out of his driveway in the Isleworth community about 2:25 a.m. ET when he struck a fire hydrant, and then drove into a tree at his neighbor’s property, the FHP reported, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

Woods was transported to Health Central Hospital in Ocoee in serious condition, FHP told the newspaper. However, a hospital employee said at 2:30 p.m. ET that Woods was not a patient. A hospital operator would not say if Woods had been treated and released.

From the Miami Herald:

Famous pro golfer Tiger Woods was seriously injured in a car crash early Friday outside his Orlando home, according to The Orlando Sentinel.

The single-car crash occurred early Friday when Woods, 33, apparently slammed his Escalade into a fire hydrant and a tree at his neighbor’s property, the newspaper said quoting Florida Highway Patrol officials.

The crash occurred as Woods pulled out of his home in his Escalade in the Isleworth community at about 2:25 a.m.

I took some snapshots from CNBC’s “Faber Report” from November 13, 2009. The two graphics show the problems the FHA is starting to have. With the government already in the hole for a few trillion Dollars, the last thing we need is another housing meltdown. I’ve always believed there is NO NEED for the government to get involved in the property market (or any other private sector for the most part-i.e. such as GM, etc.). It only distorts the markets, adds more financial pressures on the taxpayers and prolongs the problems associated with it.

Comments welcome.

I just got back from a segment on CNBC this afternoon extolling the virtues of this year’s Black Friday Deals (they’re good) and discussing our new Black Friday site. Here’s the clip.

“I believe that Snoop Dogg’s brand is well known around the whole Globe from the business aspect, as well as the music aspect.  It was a plan that I put together strategically, it was something that happened along the way.”

Since emerging onto the scene alongside Dr. Dre in 1992, West Coast rapper Snoop Dogg has continued to expand in his music, as well as, becoming business savvy.

With countless movie roles under his belt, endorsements from businesses such as Chrysler 300, Orbit Gum, Boost Mobile and many more, Snoop continues to reinvent himself for the better as he has become embraced by the masses whether it relates to music or in general.

Asking the question “What’s My Name?” back in 1993, all can raise their hands now and answer Snoop Dogg as he has become a household name.

While promoting his 10^th studio album, Malice-N-Wonderland, the rapper was able to catch up with CNBC and have a sit down discussion with Maria Bartoromo as he spoke on his beginnings entering the game.

“The first thing I wanted to do was create my own sound and diverse look that was non-similar to anyone that was out or anyone that came out before me.  I wanted to also be different and diverse with the dialect that I used.  I didn’t want to sound like anybody and I didn’t want to use the same words.  I just had a strategic plan as far as just being original and just trying to find out could I really do something that was never done before?”

Most artists lack the balance to maintain the music and the money as Snoop said that he was unable to initially handle the politics of the game.  He was, however, able to trudge his way through.

“It was told to me that it was show business.  I always had the show, but I never had the business and once I got the business, now I’m the kind of show business.”

Never one to forget those that lent a helping hand, he made sure to give Dre a shout-out in regards to how he was able to gain such heavy exposure with the mainstream.

“Not for me because I had Dr. Dre assisting me, who is one of the greatest producers of all time and I basically just rode his coat-tail and performed to the best of my ability.  Through him, I shined and people recognized and they loved me after that.”

Able to see the ramifications of negativity, he added that his lifestyle as a youth made an abrupt transition once he was able to realize the potential that he had musically.

“I dibbled and dabbled into crime in the beginning stages of my adolescence as a young man and once I did I seen that was not the route I wanted to take.  I felt that I had too much intelligence and too much mind power to just continue to belittle myself and be put in that position so once I woke up and realized that there was more to me, I maximized my strength and started studying the great musicians and studying the great business-minded people so I could become who I am today.”

With almost 20 years in the game, Snoop has failed to miss any major steps in his career that he hasn’t been able to bounce back from.  As time progresses forward, Uncle Snoop is one that will remain timeless as he remains persistent with building his name and staying a commodity in today’s industry of entertainment.

This post is inspired by  Jim Cramer’s excellent (Mad Money) adventure on the valuation of AMAZON.COM(AMZN). We all owe thanks to Jim for all his insight and performance on the show. However we should also know that no one is his right mind will give the viewing audience  the keys to the kingdom, regardless of the price. The P/E ratios are all bunk. The game is all about the balance sheet and how to value a stock based on that little piece of paper.

Amazon is hard to put a number on , but just as a curiosity I used a valuation approach that work very well for me in the past. It was an approach to value stocks that had no earnings. It had me buying Bio Reference Laboratories (BRLI) for$1 and $2 in the early 2000″s. Another stock too, Evici College Careers at $1.00.  Both went to the moon. The premise is similar, as far as valuation goes. You must remember, it was a bear market back then ,this is a stealth bull market.  Also, every time AMAZON posts results, the numbers change. Anyway, thanks to Jim Cramer for all  he does. My TARGET for AMAZON this balance sheet is $217.40. As a declaration, I do not own the stock and feel there are other opportunities elsewhere.

Check out this interview in which Snoop discusses business and branding.

Good Morning. I hope you had a chance to hear Charlie Gasparino of CNBC on the “Stocks and Jocks” show last week. If you did not, you can listen to the archived show at www.StocksAndJocks.net. Charlie has a new book called Sellout and is one of our favorite feisty financial editors. Read about his interview with us here.

Well, this week has turned out to be a bit more hectic than planned. Friday (Options Expiration) was busier than usual and with a shortened holiday week, I thought I’d open up the forum to you, the readers (and hopefully, listeners) to submit your ideas for show topics, guests, or just general market and sports questions you would like me to blog about or for Dr. J and I to cover on our show. Here are two more questions: 1) Is the turkey pardoning by the President still relevant in 2009 and 2) will you be spending more, less or the same this year on holiday gifts?

Send in your feedback, ideas and comments to me at StocksAndJocks@Live.com. I will try and get in a blog post a little later this week, assuming there is a calming lull before the holiday storm. It will be interesting to see how retail sales fare for the upcoming “biggest shopping day of the year”.

Meredith Whitney, prominent banking analyst at her self-named advisory group, should have worn a bib to protect her from the adoring drool supplied by Maria Bartiromo in a recent CNBC interview. Ms. Whitney has quickly become a banking rock star during this “Great Recession” period.  She was right at a critical juncture, and as a result she was thrust into the limelight. Much like Abby Joseph Cohen, the perma-bull Goldman Sachs strategist who gained notoriety in the late 1990s, Whitney (the perma-banking bear) will continue having difficulty living up to the lofty expectations demanded of her.

Despite the accolades, Whitney’s crystal ball has gotten cloudy in 2009. I suppose accuracy is not very important, judging by her bottom-half 2007 ranking (year of her major Citigroup call) in recommendation performance and 48%-ile ranking in the first half of 2008. Analysts, much like reporters, can avoid looking dumb by reporting the news du jour and by following the herd. Whitney has followed this formula with her continuous bearishness on the financial sector, excluding a brief but late upgrade of Goldman Sachs in July. Not only was her analysis tardy (Goldman’s stock tripled from the 2009 bottom), but her call has also underperformed the S&P 500 index since the upgrade.

Incoherent Inconsistencies

Like a bobbing and weaving wrestler (her husband John Layfield is a retired staged professional wrestler from the WWE), Whitney tries to concoct a completely mind-boggling narrative to explain her forecasts this year in the CNBC interview with Maria Bartiromo:

11/18/09 (XLF Price $14.60): “For the year, I have been at least ‘cover your shorts, go long.’ I haven’t been this bearish in a year.” (See Maria Bartiromo Interview)  

Hmm, really? Are you kidding me? Wait a second…is this the same “go long” Meredith Whitney that expressed the following?

3/17/09: (XLF: 8.55 then, 14.60 now +71% ex-dividends): “These big banks are sitting on loans that were underwritten with bad math, and the stocks are going to go down…these stocks are uninvestable.”

(Fast forward to minute 8:20 for quote above)

2/4/09 (XLF: 8.97 then, 14.60 now +63% ex-dividends): “Investors should not even consider owning banks on an equity basis” (Click here and fast forward to minute 8:10 for quote).

The schizophrenic accounting of her postures are all the more confusing given her stance that the sector was “fairly valued” in October, according to the CNBC Bartiromo interview.

Don’t get me wrong, she made an incredible bearish call on Citigroup in the fall of 2007 and was expecting blood in the streets until a massive rebound in 2009 surprised her. Investors need to be wary of prognosticators that get thrust into the limelight (see Peter Schiff article) for a single prediction. The law of large numbers virtually guarantees a new breed of extreme forecasters will be rotated into the spotlight any time there is a major shift in the market direction. I choose to follow the footsteps of Warren Buffett and stay away from the game of market timing and market forecasts. I believe James Grant from the Interest Rate Observer states it best:

“The very best investors don’t even try to forecast the future. Rather, they seize such opportunities as the present affords them.”

Meredith Whitney may be a bright banking analyst and perhaps she’ll ultimately be proven right regarding the downward banking stock price trajectories, but like all bold forecasters she must live by the crystal ball, and die by the crystal ball.

Wade W. Slome, CFA, CFP®

Plan. Invest. Prosper. 

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Working virtually allows you to stay in touch with a lot of the new and improved marketing strategies there is out on the internet. On a day to day basis there are new marketing strategies, new companies being created, more websites being built, and so on…the internet is an endless array of opportunity.  I am only going to touch on a few of them tonight, there will be more to come in future posts.

There are a lot of great ‘how to’ guru’s out there to coach you on how to create a great online or virtual business. Whether it’s Real Estate, Product Sales or Services, E bay, or whatever niche you find yourself passionate about there is a way to make it happen!

The first thing to do is to research the niche you are interested in and find out the ins and outs of the opportunity and make sure that you are getting your money’s worth. I have been working online for some time and have worked with some interesting and knowledgeable people. Now I have not made my million but I have been inspired by many people and how they have succeeded in the internet market. The opportunities are endless and the people you meet along the way are amazing, from all over the world you will communicate in some way with so many different people.

I have found that I love to find new things that make sense. In the internet world it’s not always what you have to offer but what others have to offer as well. It could be a great coaching opportunity, it could be a simple report or e-book that will change your outlook on life and the way you live it. I have done some research and have found some sites that are quite interesting, that offer some amazing services and some that are just flat out hilarious! I have included some links below; please enjoy my outlook on these fascinating sites that I have found. Since being in the social marketing world, some have been discovered via twitter, facebook, and just from searching the internet in pure curiosity.

Internet Marketing Strategies

If you have a niche in mind and are wondering how to market it, there is a great blog I have found. I am not one to sign up for RSS Feeds but this guy really seems to know his stuff. I have had the privilege to work with some very successful internet guru’s and I have seen a lot of these tips used and show profits. The name of the blog is “Internet Strategies How to Make Money Online”. I will find myself visiting this blog often and I have even signed up for his Newsletter. The information in this blog is extremely useful and I hope that you enjoy the information as much as I have.

Linkedin.com

A few reasons to join Linkedin a great social networking site. It allows for you to market yourself for all of your fields of expertise all in one place.

1. It allows you to show your tweets, receive recommendations from other connects, upload your resume.
2. Honestly the information you can share on this site is amazing, you can market yourself online and even refer other clients and/or coworkers to connect with you.
3. This site is one of the top sites as far as the companies that partner with them. Just of few of the sites that linkedin partners with include: Amazon.com, CNBC, New York Times, Rueters, and that’s just to name a few. A Great way to market your skills is definitely to sign up for a linkedin account!
4.  Please feel free to connect to me when you do! Look forward to seeing you on there! http://www.linkedin.com/in/eileensorensen

Real Estate Coaching

With the right attitude and willingness to succeed in the Real Estate field Mark Evans DM is one way to go. I have witnessed many of his success stories; he is the real deal and can get you started in the right direction. Mark Evans DM also offers a free CD that will explain more and get you started. Click Here to get yours today!

Mark Evans DM is a great internet coach and has a very successful Business. He has worked his way into the internet world with amazing products. Some of his products consist of a Book “The Insiders Secrets of the World’s Most Successful Real Estate Investors”. This book is a top seller with Mark check it out and order yours today!

ODesk.com

ODesk is a very cool site to obtain a freelancer or a freelance position.

If you are looking to work from the comfort of your own home you should check this site out!

• You can find a provider/buyer for anything from a Virtual Assistant to a Website Developer.
• Entrepreneurs are you are looking for someone to do some of your leg work? You can find someone to hire at oDesk.com!
• This site offers an application so you can track your freelancer and protect your investment as well as protect the freelancer from a not so honest buyer.  With constant postings and an oDesk Client that will track everything for you!
• The freelancer takes tests to prove their knowledge of a specific position or specialty.  This will allow the potential buyer to see if the provider is as knowledgable in a specific field.
• This site is free to the freelancer; all fees are paid by the buyer.
• The freelancer is allotted a certain amount of bids per week, this amount is earned by the feedback you receive from buyers and the amount of tests you take to improve your standings.
• Check out my profile and let me know if you would like to hire me! I’m ready to work on oDesk http://bit.ly/8oujJ7

Well it’s been a very creative evening. I should although start some more promoting of my own. If you should have a question about a program or niche on the internet, I would be happy to get more information and a well reputable coach should you be interested in the coaching ideas. There are coaches in just about all of the marketing and ways of the internet, as well as life coaches that will help you organize your life. Do not get caught up in something that you are not 100% committed to. If the commitment is not there, the success rate will not be very high. Make sure you get into something that truly interests you. Good luck to you and to all of your success!

~~By InsightAnalytical-GRL

I just watched a BBC America show about the reticent Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, and over the last couple of days on NPR radio, the Stardate segments have been devoted to the anniversary of  the Apollo 12 mission when Pete Conrad (the third man to make that walk) and Alan Bean made a pinpoint landing of the lunar module to test  “precise landing techniques” that would be used in future missions.

"The Surveyor 3 spacecraft sits silently in a small lunar crater, with the Apollo 12 lunar module on the crater's rim in the background. Astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean landed just a few hundred feet from Surveyor 3 in November 1969 to test the precise landing techniques that would be needed for future missions."--Stardate.org

We can’t do solar panels here?

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Early last week I posted this comment by Zachary Karabell, who appeared on CNBC (See: Larry Kudlow Has a Fit as Obama the “Declinist” Opens His Mouth in Japan; Says Obama is “Not His President”):

And he said that if we want China to continue to “hitch” themselves to us more, we’re not supposed to freak out if China wants to buy businesses HERE and not have a “knee-jerk xenophobic response.”

Well, here’s a story that will not make people happy, even though it may help us ultimately less dependent on foreign oil. Of course, we may become dependent on NEW environmental technology from foreign sources, but…

From Business Week (my bolding):

China Solar Panel Maker Sets First U.S. Plant

Suntech Power aims to boost its share of the U.S. market with a solar-panel manufacturing plant to be built in Arizona

China’s Suntech Power Holdings (STP) is no newcomer to the U.S. Last May, President Barack Obama toured the U.S.’s largest solar panel installation at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. There, row upon row of shiny black Suntech panels account for about a third of the 14-megawatt solar farm.

Suntech landed that project the same way it has raced to the top of the fast-growing global solar market: by focusing on price and scale. Now the world’s largest supplier of solar panels is boosting its stake in the U.S. market.

On Nov. 16 in Beijing, the company announced its first American manufacturing plant. The facility, to be located in the Phoenix area, will begin production by next October. “The U.S. market is on the cusp of greatness,” says Steven Chan, Americas president and chief strategy officer for Suntech. With the announcement, Suntech becomes the first major Chinese cleantech player to bring factory j obs to the U.S.

MMMM...wonder how many MORE major Chinese players will be arriving? And on U.S. military bases? (Of course, wasn’t there a flap over Bill Clinton selling military technology to China way back when?)

Now, there are some in Congress that are afraid our home-grown “green manufacturing jobs” won’t get a chance to get off the ground if this sort of thing happens on a regular basis. Sure, the Chinese are manufacturing here, but the factory jobs are THEIR creation, not jobs created by  a  home-grown company.

Obama’s visit to China focusing on collaboration in green technologies. Suntech’s move may soften criticism from U.S. lawmakers worried that low-cost factories in China will snare new green manufacturing jobs before they even have a chance to take root in the U.S. “[Suntech's] decision to bring manufacturing here to the U.S. is a great sign of the increasingly important collaboration between Chinese and American leaders in the renewable-energy industry,” said Dan Kammen, a professor in the energy and resources group at the University of California at Berkeley, in a statement provided by Suntech.

Gee…that Berkley prof can’t write his own statement??

According to the article, most of the grants the U.S. issues for “cleantech” is winding up overseas:

Suntech’s investment comes as anxieties are rising in Washington over foreign domination of the U.S. cleantech space. In late October the announcement of a Chinese-U.S. consortium planning to build a wind park in Texas using imported Chinese turbines led to calls that federal subsidies should be pulled from the project.The same month, a report from the Investigative Reporting Workshop found that in the wind sector, where foreign manufacturers dominate the market, overseas companies have received 84% of more than $1 billion in federal clean-energy grants released since Sept. 1. The study did not focus on solar energy, but the majority of solar panels are also produced by European and Asian companies.

Texas?  Well, naturally…I’d bet that the George Bushes I & II are involved somehow, what with their long-time ties to China…Between them and their heir Barack Obama, things are proceeding very nicely…

In light of my previous post about growing U.S. unemployment, pardon me if I query: WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON??

(Well, we’re going to build electric cars with the Chinese, for one thing…)

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Editor’s Note: I loved the space program and now live where Pete Conrad lived…and remember when this irrepressible spirit, who shouted “Whoopee” as he hopped around the moon’s surface, died in a motorcycle crash in California 10 years ago this past July (pictures on this memoria page). (He also rode 2 Gemini missions and Skylab I.)

Glenn Beck Talks New World Order with Damon Vickers

There seems to be a growing divide in the current U.S. economy.  On the one hand, you have the financial sector swimming in their bailout-induced profits like a modern day Scrooge Mcduck.  In their circles, it appears as if the recession is over.  On the other hand, you have average Americans seeing access to credit cards shut down, equity in their homes vanishing, and their stock portfolios looking a little too much like 1999.  Then you have 35.8 million Americans, roughly 11 percent of our population, on food stamps.  To this group the recession is still very much alive.

At a recent Alliance for Family Entertainment of the Association of National Advertisers, Wal-Mart gave a sobering look at the current economy:

“(NY Times) There are families not eating at the end of the month,” said Stephen Quinn, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Wal-Mart Stores, and “literally lining up at midnight” at Wal-Mart stores waiting to buy food when paychecks or government checks land in their accounts.”

Now this is important since Wal-Mart is in every corner of every American metro area:

The fact that you have people lining up at midnight just waiting to have their paychecks or government checks clear for food is probably something you are not going to see on CNBC but it is happening. This recession is really creating a split and is also flaming the fires of class warfare.  Average Americans and working class Americans are still dealing with what is known as the Great Recession.

Wal-Mart is looking to meet the new market reality by offering items that meet the new austerity demanded by millions of American families:

“Among the steps Wal-Mart is taking to address the changes in shopping habits, Mr. Quinn listed an overhaul of the retailer’s private-label brand, Great Value, which is promoted in commercials describing how families can fix dinners with Great Value products “for less than $2 a serving.”

For less than $2 a serving means millions of families are now needing to stretch their dollar.  So as you might have guessed, having the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve go on a path of dollar weakness actually hurts those at the bottom and middle class the most. Yet they are concerned more about the financial sector and the chips may fall where they may for the remaining group of Americans.

http://www.mybudget360.com/lining-up-at-midnight-at-wal-mart-to-buy-food-is-part-of-the-new-recovery-banks-offering-mattress-interest-rates-the-invisible-recovery-outside-of-wall-street/

I was recently interviewed on CNBC by Jane Wells.  Click here to view the video.

Thank you, Jane, for “showing off” our campus ministry on national television.  Very cool.