My financial website is; www.ezfinancialtutorials.com An investor will find the stock screener to be a useful tool for finding a stock or mutual fund which meets his or her requirements. The screener can be set to display stocks with high dividends or high earnings or low P ratios or any of a variety of possibilities. I believe it is necessary for any investor to pay off credit card debt before getting into the market. I do not buy partnerships because of the K-1 tax schedule and the requirement to pay taxes in every state in which the partnership does business. Partnerships often pay very high dividends but for me it is not worth the trouble. “stock screening”
From Wall Street to Main Street, Americans are reeling from the current financial crisis. Hear a panel of Stanford experts discuss perspectives on the crisis and what is to come. Recorded October 10, 2008. Panelists: John Shoven (Director, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research), Anne Casscells (CIO, Aetos Capital), Darrell Duffie (Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business) , Dennis Lockhart (President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta), John Taylor (Professor of Economics, Stanford University), Mark Wolfson (Founder, Oak Hill Investment Management) Stanford University: www.stanford.edu Stanford Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com
An ETF is according to the NYSE, an open-ended investment companies or unit investment trusts registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The benefits included lower costs, intraday trading, short positions, tax deferral and access to commodity, currency and emerging markets. What more could an investor want? Leave it up to Wall Street to take a good thing and let the zeal for profits create unforeseen pitfalls for unwary investors and an unprepared securities industry. The latest generation of ETFs has given us investments that are leveraged and inversely correlated which do not track indexes over time and commodity investments subject to the risk of “contango.” The investing public is at risk without a financial adviser who can provide advice about these new financial products.
(link to lesson 2: www.youtube.com Lesson 1 – Revisiting American History, documents the conversion of the US into a monolithic financial empire as the Federal Reserve Act created a monopolized cartel of private interests, “Wall Street,” that controls all money in the system. This killed Jeffersonian ideals and allowed vertical Hamiltonian forces to have free reign to consolidate power and wealth. It explains how this is an empire system where the top Wall Street banks are analogous to feudal lords and multi-national corporations are their feudal knights out conquering territories. It rewrites American History books.
The financial system dominated by Wall Street and the big international banks demonstrably does not work. Savers have seen their wealth diminish or disappear and the systems that were put in place supposedly to protect them have failed. As banks go bust and fund managers go to jail, ordinary investors must take matters into their own hands.
