http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com Most people when they think of surviving an airplane crash say to themselves, an airplane crash, you got to be kidding, it's death when an airplane crashes. Not so true, in fact, actually about 80% of all air plane crashes are not fatal at first. They win... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1093391_22.html 17th September 2009 These are not the days to have a non-disclosed overseas bank account. If you do have such an overseas bank account, you are in for mighty rough sailing. For decades, you could count on foreign banks and the Swiss keeping secret account from the prying eye... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1093253_19.html 17th September 2009 A mere glance at the leading financial papers in America would have you believe that real estate has bottomed, and is already on the ascent again. If you were to listen to the commentators or talking heads, they want you to believe that housing prices hav... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1092441_19.html 17th September 2009 In August of 2009, new rules went in effect for credit cards. It is important that you are aware of them. The recently elected Democratic Congress forced the banks to agree to and accept these new regulations. They are a watered down version of what was ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1088982_19.html 16th September 2009 Unfortunately, when it comes to economic recession, history becomes clouded based on your political beliefs. The question I wish to answer is whether or not economic recessions and their severity have been at all shortened by the intrusion of government i... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1084730_19.html 15th September 2009 Millions of people use margin debt on a daily basis. Traditionally what this means is the following. You buy 1000 shares of IBM and let�s say you pay a $100 per share. You owe the brokerage firm $100,000. This is the market value of your account if it i... http://www.articlealley.com/article_193515_19.html 26th July 2007 Until recently Zheng Xiaou was head of the State Food and Drugs Administration for China. He was arrested in May, and charged with being responsible for the sale of six different medicines manufactured in China. These same six medicines were fakes. The sa... http://www.articlealley.com/article_193501_26.html 26th July 2007 Both the hedge fund and private equity industry had free rides during George Bush�s Administration when the Congress was safely in Republican hands. All that changed in November 06 when the Democrats swept the Congress, and with the change in control ca... http://www.articlealley.com/article_193479_19.html 26th July 2007 Wow, it�s just starting and it�s not going to stop. Basis Capital is an Australian hedge fund. They run about a billion dollars under management. What you have to keep in mind however is that hedge funds use LEVERAGE, big leverage. The average hedge f... http://www.articlealley.com/article_193459_19.html 26th July 2007 The Intelligence apparatus of the United States is required to publish what is referred to as the National Intelligence Estimate. It is a distillation of the major intelligence issues facing the United States as seen through the eyes of some 17 different ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_193142_51.html 26th July 2007 As the hedge fund world becomes bigger and bigger as more and more hot money seeks the elusive alpha of maximum performance, it is becoming apparent that more and more newspaper space will be devoted to hedge funds, and private equity. Recent news has tak... http://www.articlealley.com/article_189844_19.html 24th July 2007 More than 40 million people in the United States take Statin Drugs every day. The purpose is to lower your LDL (BAD) Cholesterol. Statin drugs along with penicillin, and aspirin, may well be the three greatest drugs ever developed. These cholesterol fight... http://www.articlealley.com/article_186032_17.html 13th July 2007 Every year the master of stock investing, Warren Buffett takes the time to create a letter which usually runs about 20 plus pages in length. In the latest letter, he lays out for anyone to see, exactly why he is the premiere investor in the world today. W... http://www.articlealley.com/article_139958_19.html 27th March 2007 They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result. It�s hard to believe, but subprime lender New Century which is experiencing potential bankruptcy type problems from its subprime lending portf... http://www.articlealley.com/article_139949_19.html 27th March 2007 Stock Investing has told us here at StocksAtBottom.com that it has been more than 25 years since Japan�s automotive juggernaut served notice on Detroit that we are going to eat your automotive base for lunch. Each successive year since then, our domesti... http://www.articlealley.com/article_136891_19.html 12th March 2007 In the biggest Insider Trader scandal in two decades, members of four prominent firms were implicated in the developing scandal. The firms included Bank of America (BAC.N), Morgan Stanley (MS.N), UBS (UBS.N), and Bear Stearns (BSC.N). To begin with, a lit... http://www.articlealley.com/article_136884_19.html 12th March 2007 DaimlerChrysler has basically thrown in the towel by hiring J.P. Morgan Chase to find a way for the luxury German auto maker to divest itself of the Chrysler automobile company here in America. We went back and took a look at our stock research on the ori... http://www.articlealley.com/article_132983_19.html 28th February 2007 What happens when a world renowned accounting firm decides to market tax shelters to its elite clientele? The first thing that happens is that the client buys them because of the source. In this case the source is utterly reliable; KPMG is one of the olde... http://www.articlealley.com/article_132921_19.html 28th February 2007 It was announced recently that a Federal Bankruptcy court judge ordered Bear Stearns, one of America�s top tier trading firms to pay $160 million to investors who lost money with a hedge fund that cleared through Bear Stearns. While doing stock research... http://www.articlealley.com/article_132917_19.html 28th February 2007 If you have owned a home, or any piece of residential real estate including condos, and vacation homes than you are aware of the run up in prices that occurred for a five year period that ended more than a year ago. In terms of investing, owning a home fo... http://www.articlealley.com/article_132911_19.html 28th February 2007 Giant Merck, a major growth stock for 50 years has seen that growth slowing down along with Pfizer and the rest of the major drug companies. Merck has latched onto a new strategy to build sales again, but it�s not just Merck and Pfizer that are sufferin... http://www.articlealley.com/article_129430_19.html 15th February 2007 You might be familiar with Amaranth LLC, the giant hedge fund that collapsed last fall, after blowing up $6 billion of investors? money. It now comes out that the circumstances under which they self-destructed are worth studying. But first ? A METAPHO... http://www.articlealley.com/article_128241_19.html 10th February 2007 Years ago, I was a limited partner at Bear Stearns and Company in New York City. Once a year, we would have a partner�s meeting, and I would attend as a matter of course. Now keep in mind that we were a trading firm, also a brokerage firm. Back then we ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_126829_19.html 06th February 2007 Just when you thought it was safe to write a check for stock investing, the options backdating scandal hits. Our problem as money managers is that much of the information that has been disseminated about options back dating, and stock investing is just pu... http://www.articlealley.com/article_124366_19.html 29th January 2007 Our stock research has come up with an interesting concept for you to focus on. Citigroup is in the press these days because its stock price has failed to keep up with that of its competitors including Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and JP Morgan Chase. Th... http://www.articlealley.com/article_124361_19.html 29th January 2007 Our stock research has come up with an interesting play. As you know, Home Depot through its Board of Directors forced the resignation of General Electric trained CEO, Robert Nardelli, who had only been with Home Depot a couple of years. Somehow, Nardelli... http://www.articlealley.com/article_121597_19.html 19th January 2007 It is extremely rare in the business world to find a corporation that starts a revolution, and then the very same company leads another revolution. Steve Jobs who runs Apple Computer successfully stood the computer world on its high legs, and then shook i... http://www.articlealley.com/article_121450_19.html 18th January 2007 Stock Research and Home Depot are in the news again. This is a result of the firing of the CEO, Bob Nardelli, and what a story it is. You have to step back for a moment and think about any company�s history that you are doing stock research on. You mus... http://www.articlealley.com/article_121058_19.html 18th January 2007 It looks like President Bush is going to announce a �temporary increase� in the number of American troops serving in Iraq. The President is adding complexity to a series of wrong decisions he has made since the beginning of the invasion. It is difficu... http://www.articlealley.com/article_119811_51.html 13th January 2007 President Bush came into office with great promise, and the reality has been one failure after another, and this is coming from a writer who was a conservative Republican before the President knew what the term meant. Let?s use former President Ronald Rea... http://www.articlealley.com/article_113297_51.html 19th December 2006 What a world we live in. Let?s look at Iraq. We know the President said ostensibly that the reason for invading was to find weapons of mass destruction, and prevent Saddam Hussein from using them. His removal from office could create a new democratic Iraq... http://www.articlealley.com/article_111022_51.html 09th December 2006 Stock research we call it. You want to talk about stock research. Let?s talk about how Pfizer the world renowned drug company blew itself up over the weekend. We all know that the classes of drugs, known as the STATINS have meant billions to the bottom li... http://www.articlealley.com/article_110193_19.html 06th December 2006 It?s simply amazing that ten years into the digital revolution, Eastman Kodak is trying to figure out what business they are in. For decades Kodak dominated the chemically based photographic process. You shoot a roll of film, and then you physically took ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_110052_19.html 05th December 2006 Several days ago, an unfortunate shooting took place in New York City. A team of five undercover police officers were sitting in a van outside a strip club doing surveillance. There was an additional officer outside on foot in radio contact with the van. ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_110045_51.html 05th December 2006 Next week, the Iraq Study Group, a committee of so-called WISE MEN, will go public on what they feel the United States should do to extract itself from the current civil war in Iraq. I believe that among their recommendations will be: ? Entering into d... http://www.articlealley.com/article_110033_51.html 05th December 2006 Copyright 2006 Richard Stoyeck There is a war shaping up that involves two giant companies facing off, and soon there will be three. The war is between Dell Computer, and Hewlett Packard for supremacy in the personal computer world. The first battles h... http://www.articlealley.com/article_100311_19.html 15th November 2006 Copyright 2006 Richard Stoyeck We've already stated our belief that that 2007 will see Americans buying several hundred thousand less cars than they will purchase in 2006. We are looking for 16.8 million vehicle sales this year. Let's get into the numb... http://www.articlealley.com/article_99505_19.html 15th November 2006 Copyright 2006 Richard Stoyeck When Bill Clinton ran for the Presidency in 1992, his platform was basically, it's the economy ?Stupid?. When we look at the state of the American automobile industry, we believe both companies are on the wrong track. Gen... http://www.articlealley.com/article_99228_19.html 15th November 2006 Very rarely are we given the opportunity as citizens to participate in a revolution. The citizens that founded our republic participated in a revolution that has affected every corner of the earth for more than 200 years now. Our grandfathers and fathers ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_97308_51.html 07th November 2006 Stock markets are strange because they reflect the sum total of all our hopes, fears and prejudices at the end of each day. Every so often something big comes along that can have very strong influence on the stock market, and the direction the market is g... http://www.articlealley.com/article_97174_51.html 07th November 2006 Until the 1950's, Hollywood was controlled by seven major motion picture studios. More importantly it was controlled by moguls, all of whom were men they of eastern European descent, who ruled the studio in the same way that the kings of their previous co... http://www.articlealley.com/article_85944_19.html 01st September 2006 Copyright 2006 Richard Stoyeck Have you ever notice how biased the media is? Let's look at the press for the moment. The New York Times is thought to have a liberal bias. How do you go about checking it out to see if it's true? What you have to do is ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_84311_15.html 23rd August 2006 Copyright 2006 Richard Stoyeck All companies go through various cycles of growth at various speeds. This is also true in the way in which the stock market embraces them, and then spits them out, and throws them away. The market darling at the moment go... http://www.articlealley.com/article_83217_19.html 21st August 2006 Copyright 2006 Richard Stoyeck Why is it that some people only buy one or two stocks? Others may have 15 stocks but have 50 percent of their investment assets in just one of those 15 stocks. In Wall Street we refer to this type of behavior as concentra... http://www.articlealley.com/article_75502_19.html 24th July 2006 Copyright 2006 Richard Stoyeck The New Slant Really understanding compounding will make all the difference in investing. I believe that Warren Buffett, the world's greatest investor, is hardwired to think geometrically. He is rich beyond dreams beca... http://www.articlealley.com/article_75064_19.html 23rd July 2006