"On April 10th, Senator McCain stated that the Bush Administration should halt oil purchases for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). He makes a very good point. Over the last eight months..."
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"Residents of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho cut per capita gasoline consumption by 11 percent from 1999 to 2007, or nearly a gallon a week on average, according to a new report by Sightline Institute, a sustainability think tank".
To see the rest of this Puget Sound Business Journal article, please click on the link below:
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2008/04/14/daily27.html?f=et80&ana=e_du
On Friday March 14, 2008, King5 News did a piece on the current market situation and interviewed MWBoone's & Associates own Aimée Huff, CFP, CFA for the piece. Please click on the link below to see the full clip:
http://www.king5.com/video/index.html?nvid=227257
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LPL's Lincoln Anderson has put out another weekly commentary. To see this article, please click on the link below:
http://www.mwboone.com/library/articles/lpl_lincoln_Anderson_4_1_08.pdf
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LPL's Lincoln Anderson has put out the newest market update, for the week March 18-21. To see this article, please click on the link below:
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I have to say honestly – as I always do – that this sub-prime problem is obviously bigger than I anticipated. The amount of leverage in “hedge” funds and many of the big banks has caused some serious dislocations. Also, we have had bad actors – some secondary mortgage companies that have not allowed folks to refinance their first mortgages, primary dealers that have backed away from supporting auction rate securities markets, predatory lenders, etc. The scope of this problem also caught the Treasury and the Federal Reserve (Fed) by surprise, but they are catching up fast.
LPL's Lincoln Anderson has a brand new commentary piece on the current price of gold and the reasoning behind the dramatic increase in price. To see this article, please click on the link below:
http://www.mwboone.com/library/articles/Lincoln_Anderson_FoolsGold_3_5_08.pdf.
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Your weekly Update on Risks and Opportunities in the financial markets from LPL's Jeff kleintop. To see this article, please click on the link below:
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The media is now worried about recession. Doom and gloom is everywhere, and the stock market is off to an awful start this year. The Dow is down 6.0% year to date, and the S&P 500 is down 6.5%. Some (the optimists!) are comparing the current “credit market crisis” with 1998, when we had emerging market debt defaults and a big hedge fund named “Long-Term Capital” blew up. Back then, the S&P 500, which had been showing big gains, dropped about as sharply as it has lately and then recovered for nearly two years as the “credit crisis” faded.Continue reading "Market Update from LPL's Lincoln Anderson" »
· Is a 54-year-old man married to the same spouse for 28 years. Has three children.
· Has an average household net worth of $9.2 million; annual realized income of $749,000.
· Thirty-two percent are business owners or entrepreneurs; 16 percent are senior corporate executives; 10 percent are attorneys; 9 percent are physicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Well, despite all the doom and gloom out there in the media, the economy keeps on ticking. The headlines are screaming about subprime mortgage loan problems, but the macroeconomic data continues to improve.
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One of the best investments you can make for a loved one — whether a child, grandchild, niece or nephew — is an investment in his or her educational future. College graduates with a bachelor’s degree typically earn twice as much, over a lifetime, as those with a high school diploma.1
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When the stock market exhibits more than the usual short-term ups and downs, investors’ thoughts typically turn to managing risk. Although it is usually not desirable to eliminate risk, there are strategies that may help to manage the volatility of your portfolio. A diversified investment mix, a focus on large cap growth stocks, and exposure to active portfolio managers may all help you deal with greater market volatility.
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I am happy to report that, in my opinion, the mountain of a problem that sub prime mortgages supposedly represented did turn out to be more like a molehill. Yet again, the media blew a smallish problem for the economy and financial markets way out of proportion. And financial markets have largely recovered from the scare. Broad equity indexes like the Dow, the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ have completely recovered from the trough hit in mid-August.