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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-30-2007, 04:55 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 365
Posted By spider
Re: Countdown to CFA Level I

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if im not mistaken, when you register for the 2008 tests you'll be paying for the 2008 curricula. moneygrubbing pooptards they are

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Son of a ... Ugh, I should have...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-30-2007, 02:31 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 365
Posted By spider
Re: Countdown to CFA Level I

Quick question about study materials: I have the official CFA study curricula (volumes 1 to 6) that say 2007 on the cover. Will I be able to use these for studying for the June 2008 test? I assume...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-30-2007, 02:00 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 185
Posted By spider
Re: Paulson\'s Plan to Freeze Mortgage Adjustments

"Plan" in this case probably means literally that, or maybe more literally "proposal". Every year, the administration releases a new budget but that is just a suggestion for the Congress.

In some...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-30-2007, 12:55 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 365
Posted By spider
Re: Countdown to CFA Level I

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I am just worried about not having any degree in accounting/finance. I come from enggr./comp science background. trying to learn the basics of accounting from online tutorials, time value...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-30-2007, 12:51 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 365
Posted By spider
Re: Countdown to CFA Level I

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Little background and reason (where do you hope it will lead you) for taking the exams? I am thinking about taking the exam and asses the benefits as far as career goes. TIA

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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-28-2007, 01:40 AM
Replies: 52
Views: 591
Posted By spider
Re: Anyone Else At The Panic Point On The Dollar?

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By contrast, there is no reason to be buying the dollar.

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I have read rumors from the standard rumor-mongers (Economist, WSJ) that the dollar is undervalued based on...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-27-2007, 11:55 PM
Replies: 137
Views: 2,335
Posted By spider
Re: How to build credit

Just get one of the credit cards that gives you 1% back and pay it off every month.

How do you pay for gas?
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-27-2007, 11:53 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 204
Posted By spider
Re: Lower home prices everywhere

But Case-Shiller only goes back to late 80s, right? So basically as far as housing downturns it's only got one other downturn (late 80s/early 90s) in its history.

So, I'm not disagreeing or...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-27-2007, 11:23 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 365
Posted By spider
Countdown to CFA Level I

This Saturday. Good luck to me and anyone else taking it!

I wish I had given myself more than 2 months, but I think it will be a good experience and I should be in great shape when I retake it in...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-24-2007, 04:33 PM
Replies: 52
Views: 353
Posted By spider
Re: Four Ways To Use My Ideas

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For those who don't want to wade through all this lets put it more simply. Get good at predicting what to expect the market will make a stock price. If you are right, and you disagree, and...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-17-2007, 11:21 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 552
Posted By spider
Re: Rank the business degrees

It really won't matter if you go to law school. If you might not go to law school, you should just pick based on what kind of job you'd want. As noted econ is good training to think analytically...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-17-2007, 10:38 AM
Replies: 85
Views: 916
Posted By spider
Re: Improving On Buffett And Desert Cat

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Don't invest unless you can explain why people are taking the other side.

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I think you are underestimating the scope of this. The "other side" is a very large number of...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-16-2007, 07:32 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 879
Posted By spider
Re: Are Any Non Mega Banks Safe Enough To Ignore 100K FDIC Limit?

Citibank & Bank of America could arguably be described as too big to fail (though this is always at the discretion of the feds). Nevada State Bank is not too big to fail...

Another option is just...
Forum: EDF 11-14-2007, 12:31 PM
Replies: 81
Views: 1,683
Posted By spider
Re: Ask buriedbeds about losing 200 lbs (very, very long)

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The day-to-day readings don't mean anything, it's the long-term trends that matter.

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Yeah, great point. As important as the scale is, you have to realize it easily...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-13-2007, 07:30 PM
Replies: 83
Views: 346
Posted By spider
Re: Warren Buffet\'s Stance on Taxes

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Well, I can't just take your word on this. What are the relative sizes of total income tax revenue versus the other items?

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If you are rich, income taxes easily represent...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-13-2007, 06:48 PM
Replies: 83
Views: 346
Posted By spider
Re: Warren Buffet\'s Stance on Taxes

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those ntu figures do not include payroll taxes, but i think they DO include capital gains taxes in their definition of "personal income taxes".

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I agree. The link does...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-13-2007, 06:15 PM
Replies: 83
Views: 346
Posted By spider
Re: Warren Buffet\'s Stance on Taxes

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Who pays what in taxes (http://www.ntu.org/main/page.php?PageID=6)

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This doesn't include payroll (aka FICA, aka Social Security taxes) and the top marginal rates you cite...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-13-2007, 05:35 PM
Replies: 83
Views: 346
Posted By spider
Re: Warren Buffet\'s Stance on Taxes

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My basic take on it is that Buffet is being a [censored] idiot.

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Well, of all the things Buffett (two Ts, BTW), is or might be, idiot is not one of them.
Forum: EDF 11-13-2007, 04:39 PM
Replies: 81
Views: 1,683
Posted By spider
Re: Ask buriedbeds about losing 200 lbs (very, very long)

BB, great post and congratulations. One thing that I found interesting here is that it seems you were always very honest with yourself about everything. I think that is something that most people...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-13-2007, 04:11 PM
Replies: 102
Views: 578
Posted By spider
Re: Why are value investor types so rigidly opposed to TA?

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there is one logical reason i can think of: one unchanging factor of TA seems to be human reaction to price movements. there are psychological factors that imo cause humans to act a...
Forum: EDF 11-13-2007, 02:35 PM
Replies: 188
Views: 1,444
Posted By spider
Re: Fall Fashions (and good deals on fashions!)

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If you go to Brooks Brothers or Land's End you're going to pay well over $100 for a custom shirt.

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Land's End custom shirts can be well under 100, depending on pattern (I...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-13-2007, 01:59 PM
Replies: 102
Views: 578
Posted By spider
Re: Why are value investor types so rigidly opposed to TA?

The are a few problems with TA (all of which are really the same thing):

1) There are a variety of definitions of TA, many of which contradict each other.

2) No one can ever explain why TA...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-09-2007, 02:10 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 148
Posted By spider
Re: Analyzing a business, this looks sketchy

I don't know anything about these companies, but if I were thinking of investing in ARII, I'd be curious to know the relative stake Icahn has in the other two companies mentioned (ARL & ACF). For...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-09-2007, 01:35 PM
Replies: 70
Views: 391
Posted By spider
Re: Ask me about the CFA program

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78k charterholders and 140k candidates currenly in the pipeline.

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That covers the whole world but if we just divide 78k by the number of adults in the U.S. (about 220m)...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-05-2007, 01:18 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 89
Posted By spider
Re: Financial Sites You Regularly Visit

I like the columns at pimco.com (especially Gross's of course) for their big picture point of view. Same goes for economist.com.

Neither will give you stock picks, but both will do a good job of...
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